I am a Privatdozent at the University of Cologne and guest researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven. I studied philology and linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, received my doctorate from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and completed my habilitation at the University of Potsdam. My research combines language studies and intellectual history, focusing on language evolution through language contact in migratory contexts and on the circulation of knowledge through migration and mobility. Currently, I work on history of Slavic Studies in the interwar period (1918-1938) and on decolonisation of Russian (reflecting in languages of the former USSSR) within and beyond the post-Soviet space, in particular, in the EU diasporas.