Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He is the author ofPopular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (2022), and co-authored five monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (2020), Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (2023) and Biopower in Putin’s Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives (CEU Press, 2024).