Heiko Pleines

Deputy Director
 Political and Economic
Research Centre for East European Studies
Germany

Biography

In 1991-1997 done BA Russian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and MA in History, Economics and Journalism at the Ruhr-University Bochum, 1998-2000 Research Assistant at the Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies (BIOst) , Cologne, He is a Research Assistant at the Research Center Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen during 2000-2005. In 2002 he has got Doctorate at the Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin

Research Intrest

Functions of authoritarian regimes, Opposition and mass media in authoritarian and hybrid regimes, Energy sector in Central and Eastern Europe

List of Publications
Heinrich, Pleines, Heiko (2015) Mixing geopolitics and business. How ruling elites in the Caspian states justify their choice of export pipelines  Journal of Eurasian Studies 6: 107-113.  Pleines, Heiko (2016) Oligarchs and Politics in Ukraine, in: Demokratizatsiya 24: 105-127.Â