Jaine Archambeau is an M.A. student at Georgetown's Center for Eastern European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. She is also a Charles B. Rangel Fellow with the Department of State. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Political Science and Russian Language & Culture. Currently, she works for the German Marshall Fund researching Sino-Russian collaboration in the Arctic. Her recent academic research includes Buryat military participation and Georgian security strategy.