Marina Solntseva was program assistant at the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia (RBZ). When she started working for DGAP in January 2019, she also supported the Goerdeler Kolleg for Good Governance. Until February 2021, Solntseva managed the RBZ’s Network of Think Tanks on the Eastern Partnership as well as the joint project “A New Western Ostpolitik” with Johns Hopkins University.

Solntseva obtained a Master’s degree in political sciences from the Free University Berlin in 2019 and a diploma in International Relations from Moscow’s State Linguistic University in 2015. She won an International Parliamentary Scholarship from the German Federal Parliament in 2017 and is also an alumna of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a project coordinator in the Moscow offices of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. She also was a journalist and contributed to various Russian-language newspapers for several years.

Solntseva is currently working on her doctorate on the perception of the right of protest in Russia and Belarus at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

(Last updated: summer 2021)