Profile
Nikolay Murashkin
Biography
Doctoral candidate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge. He is a former analyst at a London-based bank responsible for commodity transactions in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. He has been active in projects involving academics in Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. He is also the author of several academic and analytical publications in both English and Russian.
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