Dr. Souleimanov is an associate professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict: The Wars in Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia Reconsidered (2013) and An Endless War: The Russian-Chechen Conflict in Perspective (2007). Ms. Ehrmann is a graduate in government, diplomacy and strategy from the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. This study was carried out in the framework of the Program P17 “Sciences on Society, Politics, and Media” at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University.