Sergey Sukhankin is a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington, DC, and an associate expert at the International Center for Policy Studies in Kyiv, Ukraine. He received his PhD (Cum Laude) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His thesis was awarded a special prize, an “Extraordinary Thesis Award” (2019). His areas of scientific interest primarily concern socioeconomic developments in the Baltic Sea region, Russian information and cyber security, A2/AD concept and its interpretation in Russia, and the development of Russian private military companies as an instrument of “power economics.”