Ksenia Luchenko specializes in church-state relations in Russia, ideology and media. She is the author of “Paved with Good Intentions: The Russian Orthodox Church and the State from Gorbachev to Putin” (2025).

Having a PhD in philology, she has also been very active as an educator: Luchenko served as the dean of the Department of Media Communications at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences and head of the Department of Theory and Practice of Media Communications at the School of Public Policy of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

After leaving Russia in 2022, she was a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. These days Luchenko is a co-founder of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a new humanitarian university based in Montenegro, and continues her work as a journalist and analyst.