Dr. Souleimanov, assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science at Charles University and at the University of Public Administration and International Relations in Prague, is a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is author of An Endless War: The Russian-Chechen Conflict in Perspective (Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2006). Ondrej Ditrych is a research fellow at Prague’s Institute of International Relations and a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Political Science, Charles University.