Yana Gorokhovskaia
Research Director, Strategy and Design
Yana leads work across several portfolios on the Research and Analysis team at Freedom House. She has co-authored Defending Democracy in Exile (2022), Still Not Safe: Transnational Repression in 2023 (2023), Marking 50 Years in the Struggle for Democracy (2023), A Light That Cannot Be Extinguished (2023), Addressing Transnational Repression on Campuses in the United States (2024) and The Mounting Damage of Flawed Elections and Armed Conflict (2024). Her analysis has been published in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Politico, Journal of Democracy, Just Security, Huffington Post, Post-Soviet Affairs, PS: Political Science and Politics, Russian Politics, Democratization, The Diplomat, Russian Analytical Digest, Moscow Times, Political Research Exchange, Ponars Policy Memos, and International Migration. Prior to joining Freedom House, Yana worked as an academic analyzing protest and politics in post-Soviet states. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University until 2019.
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Freedom in the World 2024: The Mounting Damage of Flawed Elections and Armed Conflict
Freedom in the World 2023: Marking 50 Years in the Struggle for Democracy
No Way In or Out: Authoritarian Controls on the Freedom of Movement
Still Not Safe: Transnational Repression in 2022
Defending Democracy in Exile: Policy Responses to Transnational Repression
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