Maria Domańska, Ph.D., is a Visiting Fellow with the Democratic Resilience program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Domańska is a senior fellow at the Warsaw-based Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW). She specializes in Russian domestic politics, including formal and informal aspects of the Russian political system, state propaganda, politics of memory, domestic determinants of Russia’s foreign policy, and political emigration originating from Russia. 

Between 2006 and 2015 she was a career diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, where she worked in the Eastern Policy Department and in diplomatic posts in Belarus and Russia.  For three years she served as the head of the Political Section in the Polish Embassy in Moscow. 

She authored and co-authored numerous analytical papers on Russia’s domestic politics that can be accessed on the OSW website.