Konstantin Zamyatin is senior research fellow at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He defended in 2014 his PhD dissertation from the University of Helsinki and obtained in 2019 the title of docent from the University of Turku, Finland. He spent the last decade at the schools for advanced studies of some leading British and Swiss universities, including Oxford University, University of London and Durham University as well as Basel University. Konstantin’s current interests include ethnic politics and language politics in the Russian Federation and some other post-communist countries. He goes annually for fieldwork to ethnic regions of Russia and taught several MA and BA study courses, most recently at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. His expert work includes assignments commissioned, inter alia, by UN Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues, Ministry of Culture of Estonia, Finnish Institute of International Affairs and others.