Tatyana Viktorovna Kochanova
Tatyana Viktorovna Kochanova (11.09.1962 – 07.01.2025) played an important role in the formation of the ‘Journal of the Institute for African Studies’. In 2015, when the management of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences decided to revive the Journal founded in 1998, and make it a regular periodical, Tatyana Viktorovna became its Executive Secretary. In this role, she assumed this difficult and extremely responsible task under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Leonid Leonidovich Fituni. She held this position until the beginning of 2025, so she was entrusted with the responsibility of Executive Secretary for a period of 10 years.
During this period, the Journal gained recognition as a scientific periodical in Russia and worldwide for socio-political and economic research in the field of African studies, attracting a wide range of leading Russian and African scholars, including Tatiana Victorovna.
T.V. Kochanova, as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of North Africa and the Horn of Africa at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was engaged in studying the formation of protest movements, the resolution of military-political conflicts and inter-ethnic contradictions, and the implementation of social policy measures in Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan. The findings of T.V. Kochanova’s studies have been reflected in dozens of scientific articles in edited volumes and scientific journals, including in the pages of the ‘Journal of the Institute for African Studies’.
A creative, responsible and always friendly person, Tatyana V. Kochanova will forever remain in the hearts of the Editorial Staff, to which she devoted considerable care, effort and energy.