RISTO ALAPURO Professor of Sociology, University of Helsinki DAVID CANEK Postgraduate Student, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic DAREJAN JAVAKHISHVILI Clinical Psychologist, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Georgia KAIJA HEIKKINEN Researcher, Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland JAMES MUCKLE Former Senior Lecturer in Education, and Special Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Nottingham, England MARGARITA PAVLOVA Research Fellow, Latrobe University, Melbourne JAMES PITT Visiting Fellow, Department of Educational Studies, University of York, England LIUBOV PIVNEVA Professor, Department of Sociology and Politics, Skovoroda Kharkov Teacher-Training University, Ukraine NATALIE SARJVELADZE Psychologist, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Georgia GERLIND SCHMIDT Research Fellow, German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt am Main JEREMY SMITH Lecturer, Twentieth-Century Russian History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham SVETLANA STEPHENSON Research Fellow, European Social Policy, University of Luton, England PENTTI STRANIUS Researcher, Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland ANNA TEMKINA Lecturer, Sociology and Gender Study, European University, St Petersburg, Russia EVA THUN Senior Lecturer, Language Teaching Methodology and Women's Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary JANET G. VAILLANT Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, USA ELENA ZDRAVOMYSLOVA Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Independent Social Research, St Petersburg.