Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin is a professor of political science and heads the Post- Soviet Conflicts Research Program at the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author/editor of nine academic books, including, most recently, The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States (2023) and Russian Speaking Jews as a Political Body: A Global Perspective (co-edited with Olaf Glöckner, 2025). Petr Oskolkov is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science, Ariel University, and an affiliated researcher at the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program, Begin- Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.