Elena Vartanova,
Moscow State University

Elena Vartanova is professor, Deputy Dean for Research and head of Chair in Media Theory and Media Economics at the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University where she got her Ph.D. (1986) and Dsc (1999). She lectures on Media Economics; Contemporary Foreign Media Systems with a special focus on Nordic Media, Russian Media Model in Global Context. Elena Vartanova published several monographs (in Russian) on Nordic Media Model, European Information Society, Media Economics. She co-edited Russian Media Challenge (2001, 2002) to which she also contributed a chapter on Media Structures in Russia. She published a number of articles on Russian Media in European Journal of Communications, Gazette, research monographs.