Van Koningsbrugge, Prof. Hans

Hans van Koningsbrugge is Professor of the History and Politics of Russia, in particular Dutch-Russian Relations. His chair pays particular attention to the political and economic developments from a Dutch perspective, and, within that framework, to the decision-making processes and mechanisms in Russia in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly with regard to international cooperation.

Van Koningsbrugge (Oudenbosch, 1959) studied history at the University of Nijmegen, where he gained his PhD in 1996. Van Koningsbrugge is also a guest lecturer at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael and the Netherlands Defence College Rijswijk. He is also Director of the Centre for Russian Studies at the University of Groningen and of the Netherlands-Russia Centre.

Video

• Van Koningsbrugge on the Borodin case (in Dutch; Een Vandaag) l

Previously in the news (mostly in Dutch)

• Death of Navalny is the next chapter, not new chapter
• Wat bezielt Poetin? Drie analisten ontrafelen zijn wrokkige toespraak
• Tsar Peter the Great was on extremely bad terms with the Dutch regents
• Lost friendship

Contact and more information

• See the profile page
• Netherlands-Russia Centre

Publications