Polina Galouchko

Polina Galouchko is a Master’s student at Harvard University’s Davis Center program, where she studies church-state relations in postcommunist societies, protests and civil movements under authoritarianism, as well as medieval Slavic manuscripts. In particular, she likes to ponder the ways in which medieval political and religious philosophy – such as the conception of Moscow as the Third Rome – shaped Russia’s present-day foreign policy. Polina is originally from Moscow, Russia, and she received her BA in Economics from Harvard College in 2023. Her senior thesis was an attempt to establish the causal effect of post-election protests in Belarus on social and political attitudes of citizens.