Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar with migration law expert Olga Gulina. She will discuss the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on demography in Russia. We encourage you to read her earlier article about Russians seeking refuge in the European Union. The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Register via myFletcher.

Olga Gulina is a co-founder of the RUSMPI-Institute on Migration Policy in Berlin and a consultant of international consortiums dealing with migration, like ICMPD, GIZ, Winrock, etc. She holds a Ph.D. in Migration Law (2010, University of Potsdam, Germany), and a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law (2002, Bashkir State University, Russia). She is a member of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum and an alumna of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the European Academy of Diplomacy, the Kennan Institute, and the Moscow School of Political Studies. Olga publishes extensively about migration challenges in the newly independent states. Among her publications: ‘Asylum Seekers from the Eastern Partnership and Central Asian Countries in the EU´, Vienna-Brussels, 2020; ´Russian nationals looking for refuge in the European Union´, ICMPD Policy Paper, 2020; Migration as a (Geo-)Political Challenge in the Post-Soviet Space: Border Regimes, Policy Choices, Visa Agendas, Ibidem, 2019; Rechtspolitische und rechtliche Probleme der Zuwanderung – dargestelltanhand der Zuwanderer aus den GUS-Staaten. Potsdam, 2010. Her field of expertise is immigration law and its enforcement on the European and Eurasian continents.