Alexander Osipov is a Senior Research Associate of the European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany) from September 2010. He heads ECMI’s Justice & Governance Cluster. Previously he was involved in a series of research and human rights advocacy projects related to some transnational minorities in the former Soviet Union and the issues of ethnic discrimination in the Russian Federation. Currently his research interests include ethnic and racial discrimination, non-territorial autonomy, and models of diversity policies. He is also researching post-communist transformation in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. His publications include ‘Non-territorial Autonomy and International Law’ in International Community Law Review (2011), 13(4), 393-411, and ‘Non-Territorial Autonomy as a Way to Frame Diversity Policies: The Case of Russia’ in Ephraim Nimni, Alexander Osipov, David J. Smith (eds), The Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy: Theory and Practice (Peter Lang, Oxford and Bern, 2013), 133-148.