Boris Ginzburg is a doctoral researcher in political science at the Freie Universität Berlin. In his dissertation, he examines how autocratic regimes, using Belarus as an example, employ signalling policies in their relationships with sanction-senders to achieve the termination of these restrictions. Boris Ginzburg studied Political Science, International Law, and International Conflict Analysis at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the University of Kent in Canterbury (United Kingdom).

Sanktionen gegen die Post-Sowjetischen Autokratien: Motive, Risiken und autokratischer Umgang (Winter term 2021/22)

• Regional focus: Post-Soviet region and the Middle East
• Research on authoritarian systems
• The political impact of sanctions
• Non-systemic opposition of Russia and Belarus
• Organized crime in and from the post-Soviet space
• German-Russian relations
• German domestic and foreign policy
• Belarusian and Ukrainian foreign and security policy 
• Israeli foreign and security policy

• Ginzburg, Boris (2026): The ‘Don’t Lose Lukashenko’ Approach: Kyiv’s (Non-)Strategic Ambiguity Towards the Belarusian Opposition. In PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 960 (Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs): Online: https://www.ponarseurasia.org/the-dont-lose-lukashenko-approach-kyivs-non-strategic-ambiguity-toward-the-belarusian-opposition/
• Ginzburg, Boris (2026): Why Lukashenka Plays the Anti-Putin Card. ZOiS Spotlight 4/2026 (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)). Online: https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/why-lukashenka-plays-the-anti-putin-card
• Ginzburg, Boris (2026): How to Attend a Wedding Even Without an Invitation: Lukashenka’s Middle East Tour And Its Meaning for Israel (and Europe). In PSCRP-BESA Reports No 184 (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies). Online: https://besacenter.org/how-to-attend-a-wedding-even-without-an-invitation-lukashenkas-middle-east-tour-and-its-meaning-for-israel-and-europe/

• Ginzburg, Boris (2025): About Icebergs and Abraham: The Strategic Partnership between Azerbaijan and Israel on Course for the Abraham Accords. In Caucasus Analytical Digest No.143, pp. 15-23. Online: https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/cad/details.html?id=/n/o/1/4/no_143_azerbaijans_international_relatio

• Ginzburg, Boris (2025): Signal Transmission versus Signal Detection: Lukashenka's Prisoner Diplomacy. In Belarusian Analytical Digest No.2. Online: https://css.ethz.ch/publikationen/belarus-analytical-digest/details.html?id=/n/o/0/0/no_002_state_repression_in_belarusnr_002

•  Ginzburg, Boris (2025): Opposition or Opportunists? Ukraine’s distrust toward the Russian opposition in exile. In PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 934 (Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs). Online: https://www.ponarseurasia.org/oppositionists-or-opportunists-ukraines-distrust-toward-the-russian-opposition-in-exile/

• Ginzburg, Boris (2025): Opposition – aber gegen wen und wogegen? Zu den Motiven der ukrainischen Skepsis gegenüber der russischen Exilopposition. In Russland-Analysen (461), pp. 10–14. DOI: 10.31205/RA.461.02. Online: https://laender-analysen.de/russland-analysen/461/exil-opposition-russisch-ukraine-skepsis/

• Ginzburg, Boris (2024): Kyjiws strategische Distanz zur belarusischen Opposition. In Ukraine-Analysen No. 307, pp. 2–6. DOI: 10.31205/UA.307.01

• Ginzburg, Boris (2024): Post-War Ukraine: A Kind of “Big Israel” in Europe? In Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. DOI: 10.1007/s12399-024-01013-6.

• Ginzburg, Boris (2024): Only the Bare Necessities: The (Tense) Relationship Between the Belarusian and Russian Non-systemic Oppositions Before and After the “Great Prisoner Swap” of August 2024. In Russian Analytical Digest No. 317, 10–13 (revised version of Boris Ginzburg (2024): "Nur eine einzige Umarmung wert: Die (fehlende) Kooperation zwischen der belarusischen und russischen nicht-systemischen Opposition." In: Belarus-Analysen 72). DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000692534

• Ginzburg, Boris (2024): Nur eine einzige Umarmung wert: Die (fehlende) Kooperation zwischen der belarusischen und russischen nicht-systemischen Opposition. In: Belarus-Analysen 72. Online unter: https://laender-analysen.de/belarus-analysen/72/kooperation-belarus-russische-opposition/

• Boris Ginzburg (2021): Sanktionen und Repression. Kausalitätshypothesen. Ein Forschungsbericht. In Zeitschrift Osteuropa 71 (10-12), pp. 243–252. DOI: 10.35998/oe-2021-0091.

• Boris Ginzburg und Alexander Libman: "Die Duma-Wahlen 2021: Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall – oder doch nicht?. "Russland-Analysen Nr. 403 vom 08.06.2021 (revised version of: Boris Ginzburg and Alexander Libman: "Elections 2021: Tense Atmosphere, Likely Regime Victory, and Uncertain Policy Outcomes." Russian Analytical Digest No. 266, April 2021). Online unter: https://www.laender-analysen.de/russland-analysen/403/

• Boris Ginzburg and Alexander Libman: "Elections 2021: Tense Atmosphere, Likely Regime Victory, and Uncertain Policy Outcomes." Russian Analytical Digest No. 266, April 2021, open access: https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/rad/rad-all-issues-and-articles/details.html?id=/p/r/e/p/preparing_for_the_parliamentary_election