New Doctor of Political Science!
On June 25, 2015 Svetlana Bodrunova successfully defended what in Russia is known as full doctor dissertation - the second dissertation after regular PhD that leads a person to full professorship. The thesis is entitled "Mediacracy: Media and Power in Contemporary Democratic Societies". Svetlana Bodrunova has been collaborating with LINIS since 2012 and has become the first full doctor in the lab, and one of the youngest full doctors at State University of St.Petersburg and at Higher School of Economics, having defended at the age of 34.