Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, Doctor in Sociology, independant scholar, is Chief Editor of the electronic publication of social sciences The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies (http://www.pipss.revues.org) and editor of Post-Soviet Armies Newsletter (http://www.psan.revues.org/), an Internet publication dedicated to the study of post-Soviet power institutions. In partnership with A. Toumarkine she wrote Géopolitique de la Mer Noire, Paris, Karthala, 2000. She is also the author of several articles on the Russian military. Among them « Les femmes dans l’armée russe : une intégration à reculons » [Woman in the Russian army. An hesitant Integration], Le Courrier des Pays de l’Est, April 2002 ; « Coopération militaire en mer Noire. Un phénomène récent : la coopération Turquie – ex-pays de l’URSS » [Military Cooperation in the Black Sea. A New Phenomenon : the Cooperation Between Turkey and the Republics of the CIS], Regards sur l’Est, April 2003; « Political and Military Implications of the Integration of Cossacks in the Russian Armed Forces », in Social Change and the Armed Forces in Russia, Steve Webber & Jennifer Mathers Ed., London, Manchester University Press, 2005. From September 2005 to September 2006, she was an Associate Scholar at the CRIS (Centre de Recherches Internationales de la Sorbonne, Paris) where she led the CIS research team. In 2006, in partnership with Françoise Daucé, she co-edited Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military: Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective, Stuttgart, Ibidem-Verlag. In 2008, with Anne Le Huérou, she co-edited and co-authored Culture militaire et patriotisme dans la Russie d’aujourd’hui, Paris, Karthala. She is currently a Research Associate at CERCEC Centre des mondes russes, caucasien et centre-européen (UMR EHESS-CNRS 8083), Paris.