Vilen Ivanov

Who is Vilen Ivanov?

Vilen Nikolaevich Ivanov – a Russian sociologist, Ph.D., Professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; since October, 2005 on he has been a RAS adviser; member of the Bureau for Social Sciences under the RAS; Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences; Editor-in-Chief of the Nauka. Kultura. Obshchestvo Journal; member of the Presidium of Moscow Sociological Association; honorary member of the Russian Association of Sociologists; full member of the Byelorussian Academy of Social Sciences; Vice-President of the International Academy of Russia-Belarus Union; member of the Union of Russian Writers; full member of the Academy of Literature. V. Ivanov is the author of more than 400 scientific publications and of 11 collections of poems.

He graduated from the Lenin Political-Military Academy with honours.

From 1983 to September 1988 V. Ivanov was Director of the Institute of Sociological Research under the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

From 1991 to 2005 he was the first Deputy Director of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences