Maria Lagutina is Associate Professor, World Politics Department at Saint Petersburg State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (2006, St. Petersburg State University, the Russian Federation) and Doctoral Degree (2017, St. Petersburg State University, the Russian Federation). Her current research interests are oriented towards Eurasian integration and its regional and global dimensions, including different issues and prospects of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union relationships. She is a member of the International Studies Association. Dr. Maria Lagutina is the author of four monographs, one textbook and several chapters in the collective monographs on the world politics issues and Eurasian integration and more than 30 articles in Russian and English. In 2016 she was invited as a Visiting Professor at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada).