Ekaterina Schulmann

On 15.04.2022, entered by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the register of mass media and individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent.

Ekaterina Mikhailovna Shulman (née Zaslavskaya) is a Russian political scientist, lawyer, candidate of sciences, and associate professor. She is a public figure and a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. She hosts an авторская program on the radio station Ekho Moskvy and is a columnist for the newspaper Vedomosti.

In 1995, Ekaterina graduated from School-Lyceum No. 73 in Tula with a silver medal and enrolled in J. Brown College in Toronto, Canada. She completed the academic English course and the course on foreign culture with distinction in Canada. Since 1996, she worked in the Department of General Policy of the Tula City Administration. From 1999 to 2006, she worked in the State Duma of the Russian Federation as an assistant to a deputy, a staff member of the faction apparatus, and an expert in the Analytical Department of the Duma’s central staff.

In 2001, she enrolled in the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, where she studied political science and political administration. From 2007 to 2011, she was Director for Legislative Research at the consulting company PBN Company.

Since 2013, she has been a regular columnist for Vedomosti. She also publishes in Grani.ru and Colta.ru. In 2013, at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, under the academic supervision of Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor E. G. Morozova, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences on the topic “Political Conditions and Factors in the Transformation of the Legislative Process in Modern Russia” (specialty 23.00.02 — political institutions, processes, and technologies). The official opponents were Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor V. I. Burenko and Doctor of Political Sciences Yu. G. Korgunyuk. The leading institution was the Department of Russian Politics of the Faculty of Political Science at Lomonosov