Stas Gorelik

Stas successfully defended his dissertation in the summer of 2024. His research interests center on authoritarian elections, with a particular focus on covert and seemingly legal manipulation tactics, as well as voter responses to them. He also studies pro-government mass mobilization campaigns during such elections. His research is centered on Russia and the broader post-Soviet region. He is a native speaker of Russian and Belarusian, with a solid understanding of Ukrainian.