{"id":1186,"date":"2024-11-20T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/?page_id=1186"},"modified":"2024-11-20T21:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:08:53","slug":"maria-vyushkova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/?page_id=1186","title":{"rendered":"Maria Vyushkova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:23% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3L8A8468-Edit-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1183 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3L8A8468-Edit-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3L8A8468-Edit-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3L8A8468-Edit-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3L8A8468-Edit.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Maria Vyushkova<\/strong> (Batani Indigenous Foundation, Yarmouth, ME, USA) is a PhD computational scientist, Buryat activist and expert in how Russia\u2019s ethnic minorities are involved in Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Vyushkova got her PhD degree in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion in Novosibrisk, Russia in 2009, and as of 2022, worked as a computational scientist with the University of Notre Dame. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Maria Vyushkova co-founded the Free Buryatia Foundation, the first ethnic anti-war organization of Russia\u2019s Indigenous people, and used her expertise as a computational scientist to analyze the ethnic composition and ethnic inequalities in the Russian-side death toll of the Ukraine war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, she published a pioneering research paper on Russia\u2019s ethnic minority casualties of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. On September 18, 2024, Maria Vyushkova testified in the US Helsinki Commission Congressional hearing on Russia\u2019s imperial identity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Vyushkova (Batani Indigenous Foundation, Yarmouth, ME, USA) is a PhD computational scientist, Buryat activist and expert in how Russia\u2019s ethnic minorities are involved in Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.&nbsp; Dr. Vyushkova got her PhD degree in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion in Novosibrisk, Russia in 2009, and as of 2022, worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1026,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1186","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maria Vyushkova - Democratic Security Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/demsecinstitute.org\/?page_id=1186\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maria Vyushkova - Democratic Security Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maria Vyushkova (Batani Indigenous Foundation, Yarmouth, ME, USA) is a PhD computational scientist, Buryat activist and expert in how Russia\u2019s ethnic minorities are involved in Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.&nbsp; 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