Sreemati Ganguli, a Fellow in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, did Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her areas of research interests are Russian foreign policy, the energy politics as well as the geopolitics involved in and around the Eurasian region in the post-Cold War era. She presented Papers in international seminars in India as also in Bishkek, Almaty and Novosibirsk.