Grigory Ioffe

Grigory Ioffe is a Professor of Human Geography at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. He was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, and graduated from Moscow State University where he majored in Human Geography. He emigrated to the United States in 1989. Ioffe has been active in Belarusian studies since 2002. He has authored and co-authored multiple peer-refereed articles on Belarus. Ioffe’s book, “Understanding Belarus and How Western Foreign Policy Misses the Mark” was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2008 and again in 2014. Published in 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan, his book “Reassessing Lukashenka: Belarus in Cultural and Geopolitical Context” is based on extensive interviews with the Belarusian leader. Ioffe also co-authored the third edition of “Historical Dictionary of Belarus”, published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2018. He regularly writes about Belarus for the Eurasia Daily Monitor.