Giovana Dias Branco is a doctoral student in Political Science at USP and master’s in International Relations through the San Tiago Dantas program (Unesp, Unicamp, PUC-SP). She works as a volunteer researcher at the Russia-Latin America Observatory (Ruslat).Her research focuses on autocratic legitimacy, Russian foreign policy and the construction of national identity in post-Soviet Russia. Her Lattes Curricullum can be fount at: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0238669055516891