Experts & Staff

Ksenia Luchenko

ECFR Alumni · Visiting Fellow

Areas of expertise

Russian Orthodox Christianity and its influence on Russian politics and society; church-state and church-public relations in eastern Europe; political and cultural history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th and 21st centuries; Russian media and journalism, propaganda, and ideology

Languages

Russian, English, French

Biography

Ksenia Luchenko was a visiting fellow with the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is a journalist, researcher, and analyst who emigrated from Russia in April 2022. Previously, she was dean of the Department of Media Communications at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences and head of the Department of Theory and Practice of Media Communications at the School of Public Policy of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Luchenko is the author of several dozen journalistic and scholarly articles on religious life in post-Soviet Russia and the role of Orthodoxy in the formation of the Putin regime. She is also the editor of several documentaries about Soviet dissidents and intellectuals. She holds a PhD in philology from Moscow State University

The women who could save Russia

The biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s strongman rule may just come from women – especially when they base their activism on the very ‘traditional values’ he purports to venerate

Publications

Articles

The women who could save Russia

The biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s strongman rule may just come from women – especially when they base their activism on the very ‘traditional values’ he purports to venerate

Podcasts

Events

In the media