Alexei Gromyko
Alexei Anatolyevich Gromyko (Russian: Алексе́й Анато́льевич Громы́ко, born 20 April 1969) is a Russian political scientist and historian specializing in the political system of the United Kingdom. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and serves as the director of the academy's Institute of Europe since 2014. He also serves as the head of the Department of International Relations of the Nizhny Novgorod State University since 2016.
Alexei Gromyko | |
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Алексей Анатольевич Громыко | |
 Alexei Gromyko in 2014 | |
| Born | 20 April 1969 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Education | MSU Faculty of History |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Specialist in British studies, European integration, international relations |
| Awards | Webb Foundation Award (Ruskin College, University of Oxford) Award of the Foundation for the Promotion of National Science for 2004 and 2006 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science, history |
| Institutions | Russian Academy of Sciences, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
He is the son of the Soviet diplomat Anatoly Gromyko and the grandson of the long-term Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Gromyko.
Biography
Alexei Gromyko graduated from the Faculty of History of the Moscow State University. In 1997 he defended his candidate dissertation on the topic "Neoconservatism and New Labour: Political Struggle in Modern Great Britain" at the Institute of Comparative Political Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Modernization of the party-political system of Great Britain (1970s — 2005)".
He is the Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony's College of the University of Oxford, Honorary Member of the Academic Forum of the Varna Free University, Honorary Doctor of the Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski".
In 2022 Gromyko criticized Russian invasion of Ukraine, as a result of which he was excluded from the scientific council under the Security Council of the Russian Federation.[1]