Ilya Kiriya is Professor and Chair of the School of Media, Faculty of Communication, Media and Design at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He holds a PhD in information and communication science from Grenoble Stendhal University (France) and second PhD in journalism from the Moscow State University. His research interests are in the political economy of media and communication, concentration, capital and industrial strategies of big media companies and conglomerates in field of media and public sphere structures in post-soviet countries.  Panos Kompatsiaris is Assistant Professor of Art and Media at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He holds a PhD in art theory from the University of Edinburgh, and has published on art and cultural politics in various journals and edited volumes, including a monograph titled 'The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials' (Routledge, 2017). He is a co-editor of a special journal issue on art and value with the Journal of Cultural Economy. Yiannis Mylonas is Assistant Professor at the Media Department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the University of Copenhagen. He has previously published on the political economy of copyrights, digital file-sharing and civic cultures, among other topics. He is the author of the monograph 'The Greek Crisis in Europe: Race, Class and Politics' (Brill, 2019).