Boris Ginzburg is a doctoral researcher in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. His dissertation examines the causal relationship between sanctions and repression in the post-Soviet space, as well as the political effects of sanctions on authoritarian systems. Boris Ginzburg studied Political Science, International Law, and International Conflict Analysis at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, at the Free University Berlin, and at the University of Kent in Canterbury (United Kingdom). His research interests include authoritarian politics (especially in the post-Soviet space) and Israeli foreign policy.

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

• 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