Ван Яли

Professional Interests

identity politics symbolic politics Discourse Analysis

Postgraduate Studies

3rd year of study
Approved topic of thesis: The Transformation of Narrative Templates of the "Non-West" as Russia's Significant Other in Russian Political Elite Discourses
Academic Supervisor: Olga Y. Malinova

Courses (2025/2026)

World Politics and International Relations (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
World Politics and International Relations (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
World Politics and International Relations (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
World Politics and International Relations (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Eng

Timetable for today

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Employment history

2016-2020: Bachelor's degree, Peking University

2021-2023: Master's degree, HSE University

Since 2023: Doctoral programme in Political Science, HSE University

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Mar

2026

‘The Identity of a Political Community Is Not Fixed—It Is Continuously Constructed and Contested’

Wang Yali has been interested in Russian language and politics since her time as an undergraduate at Peking University. After graduating with a degree in Asian and African Languages and Literatures and a second degree in International Relations, she pursued a Master’s in International Relations at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at HSE University–Moscow. She is now pursuing a PhD at the Doctoral School of Political Science, examining Russian narratives of ‘East,’ ‘West,’ and its own place among them.