Biography:

Russian State University of the Humanities, professor

Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of World History, Center of Ancient Civilizations, leading researcher

Russian «Journal of Ancient History» (VDI), council member

born December 14, 1954 in Minsk, USSR

1976 - MA, Moscow State University, Dept of Ancient History

1984 - PhD, Moscow State University, «Social organization of Attica, 6th century BC and the constitution of Cleisthenes»

1993 and 2003 - The British Academy Visiting Professorship (Universities of Oxford and Durham).

1998 - The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, a Fellow

2004 - DSc., Russian Academy, «Society, politics, and ideology in classical Athens»

E-mail: oxlos@yandex.ru