Elena Yuryevna Guskova (russian: Елена Юрьевна Гускова) (born on 23 September 1949 in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

) is a Russian historian and member of the

Serbian Academy of Science and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

. Elena Guskova is one of the scholars who blame the Western countries not only for

breakup of Yugoslavia The breakup of Yugoslavia occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

but also for the

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which accompanied it. She is also a member of the

Senate of Republika Srpska The Senate of Republika Srpska () is consultative body of the highest Constitution of Republika Srpska, constitutive institutions of Republika Srpska, an Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its organ ...

. Guskova publicly stated her opinion that the

Brussels Agreement (2013) The Brussels Agreement ( sr, Бриселски споразум / ''Briselski sporazum'', al, Marrëveshja e Brukselit), formally the First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalisation of Relations, is an agreement to normalize relations ...

signed by the

Government of Serbia The Government of Serbia ( sr, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Government ( sr, � ...

in April 2013 indirectly recognizes

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as independent state.

Biography

Jelena Jurjevna Guskova née Derjabina was born on 23 September 1949 in Moscow. In 1972, she graduated from the Faculty of History of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

at the Department of History of Southern and Western Slavs. At the same faculty, she received her master's degree in the thesis on the socio-economic development of Serbia in the middle of the 19th century. There, in 1990, she defended her doctoral dissertation on socio-political organizations and the self-governing system of the

SFRY The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yugo ...

. In 1994, she worked as a scientific expert on the Balkans at the UN peacekeeping headquarters in

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

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. From 1972 to 2002, she worked at the Institute of Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a leading research associate, and at the same time, she worked at the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences as the head of the Center for Contemporary Balkan Crisis. He has been working at that Institute continuously since 2002 as a manager. Jelena Guskova has lectured at

Lomonosov Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

(1993, 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2003), Irkutsk State University (1993),

Perm State University Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University; russian: Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, , romanised: , ) or PSU, PSNRU (russian: ПГУ, , ...

(1995), the

Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is among the oldest diplomatic institutes in the world, which trains specialists in the field of international relations, international economic relations and int ...

(2002), the

Ural State University The Ural State University (russian: Урáльский госудáрственный университéт и́мени А.М. Гóрького, , often shortened to USU, УрГУ) is a public university located in the city of Yekaterinburg, Sv ...

. University (2005) and the State University of Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences (currently). All her past and present lectures were dedicated to the history of Yugoslavia. Historiographically, she studied the opportunities and troubles in the Balkans during the second half of the 20th century, general disagreements in multinational states, interstate relations, Russia's foreign policy towards the Balkans, etc.

References

External links

Personal web site of Elena Guskova

Biography on the website of SANU
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