Stanislav Stanskikh is a Russian constitutional scholar in exile, currently affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Stanskikh is the CEO of the New England Institute for Country Conditions Expertise, LLC. After graduating from Lomonosov Moscow State University School of Law, he served as the Executive Director of the Russian Foundation for Constitutional Reforms and as the founding Deputy Editor-In-Chief of the Russian Constitutional Court's academic law review, among other positions. Stanskikh is a compiler of the collection of documents on the Russian constitutional process in 1990-1993, constitutional justice, federalism, and the collapse of the USSR. Author of the 2020 petition against amendments to Russia's Constitution with over 250,000 signatories. In 2023, Stanskikh signed the Berlin Declaration of Russian Democratic Forces and the Brussels Declaration of Russian lawyers, legal scholars and human rights defenders, endorsing the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
Stanislav Stanskikh
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Visiting Scholar, Russia & Eurasia Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University