Ms Olga Gulina, PhD in Law (2002, Bashkir State University, Russia), PhD in Migration Studies (2010, Potsdam University, Germany). Currently Olga is working as a Senior Consultant at Benefit Research& Consulting Group (Berlin, Germany). Her field of expertise: European &Eurasian Affairs, Immigration Law and Migration Management in Central Asia, Caucasus, Ukraine and Russia. Her most recent publications are/were “Migration as a (Geo-)Political Challenge in the Post-Soviet Space: Border Regimes, Policy Choices, Visa Agendas”, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, IBIDEM &Columbia University Press 2019; “Migration and the Development of the Russian State: Three Centuries of Migration Management”, Handbook of Migration and Development, eds. Bastia & Skeldon, Routledge 2020.