Pietro A. Shakarian is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and a lecturer at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan. He earned his PhD in History at The Ohio State University, his MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, his MLIS at Kent State University, and his BA in History at John Carroll University in Cleveland. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Historical Research at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of the book Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin, published in 2025 by Indiana University Press. In addition, he has written analyses on Russian and post-Soviet affairs for various publications, including The Nation magazine.