Nina Y. Belayeva is a Professor of Public Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She received her PhD in Law and Public Policy from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science. Her current research focuses on civil society and protest publics as global phenomena. She is teaching on civil society’s influences on policymaking from a comparative perspective at Bologna University, the University of Turin, Science Po Grenoble, and at the European Regional Master Program in Human Rights and Democratic Governance (ERMA) at the University of Sarajevo. Her recent publications were on global citizenship and global identity, mass protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bolotnaya protests in Moscow. nbelyaeva.hse@gmail.com Dmitriy G. Zaytsev is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He is also a senior research fellow at the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research at the same university. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science. His current research focuses on think tanks and analytical communities, as well as protest publics as drivers of socio-political change. He has published numerous chapters in books and edited volumes. zaytsevdi2@gmail.com Victor A. Albert is an Associate Professor at the Public Policy Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He received his PhD from La Trobe University (2013) with a dissertation on: The Promise of Participation, the Practice of Power: an ethnographic study of participatory institutions in Santo André, São Paulo. He is also the author of The Limits to Citizen Power: participatory democracy and the entanglements of the state (Pluto, 2016). victoralbert@gmail.com