Federica Prina is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Glasgow’s Central and East European Studies (CEES), School of Social and Political Sciences. She obtained her PhD (Politics) in 2012 from University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEE S). In 2012-14 she was a Researcher and Head of Cluster ‘Culture and Diversity’ at the European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany). Previously she worked as project manager and researcher for Article 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, in London. Prina has published widely on minority rights and inter-ethnic relations, particularly in the Russian Federation. Publications include National Minorities in Putin’s Russia: Diversity and Assimilation (Routledge 2016), and peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Nationalities Papers, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, European Yearbook of Minority Issues and Review of Central and East European Law.