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Elena Vartanova became a student of the Faculty of Journalism,šLomonosov Moscow State University in 1976. Since that time, her life has been heavily associated with the University.

After her graduation with honors, she remained as laboratory assistant at the Department of Foreign Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism.š

She was interested in Finland, learned the Finnish language and began tošresearch the mass media of that Northern country. In 1986, she defendedšher Ph.D. dissertation “Foreign Policy Conception of the Finnish Dailyšnewspaper Helsingin Sanomat”.š

At the end of 1980’s, she started tošresearch the problem of the ICT impact on journalism and media systems. Restructuring in the country also led to significant changesšin media. In that period, Elena Vartanova was interested in thešdevelopment of Russian media within the new State.šAt the beginning of 90?s, she started to oversee the creation of ašuniversity program for researching Finland.š

In 1996, she founded andšheaded the Centre for Finnish-Russian Studies of Culture and MassšMedia at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.šAs Elena Vartanova?s field of interest expanded and she started tošresearch media models of Northern European countries it became thešCentre for Finnish and Scandinavian Media Studies, or, ?NORDICA?. Thešresult, her monograph ?Northern Model at the End of the Century:šPress, TV and Broadcasting Among Government and Market Regulation?šappeared in 1997 and was awarded Moscow University's Shuvalov?s Prize.

At the same time, Elena Vartanova began to research the incipientšRussian media market and prepare the course ?Bases of Media Economicsšand Media Management?. The principles presented within this coursešbecame fundamental for years after.

In 1995, she became an expert from Russia with the Council of Europe onšinformation and communication technologies (ICTs) looking into: accessšproblems, influences of ICTs on freedom of speech, information access,špluralism and media diversity. Her experience became the basis of a new scientific interest in information society studies. Combiningšinterest in Northern European media and information society issues,šElena Vartanova wrote another monograph and in 1999 defended heršdoctoral dissertation ?Northern European Way to Information Society: Finnish Media Model Evolution?.

In 2000, Elena Vartanova became the professor of Department of ForeignšJournalism and Literature and focused her activity on a new area inšjournalism – media economics and media management. In 2003, the manual ?Media Economicsšof Foreign Countries? was published ? the first book to cover thisšsubject area in Russia. In 2009, along side heršcolleagues she prepared the fundamentally new text ?Bases of MediašBusiness?.

At the same time, her administrative career was rising: in 2001,šProfessor Vartanova was charged with the position of Deputy Dean for Research. In 2004, she founded and headed the new department ? the firstšDepartment of Media Theory and Economics in Russia. In 2007, shešwas appointed as Dean Executive and in 2008 was elected as Dean of thešFaculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Elena Vartanova is the founder and editor-in-chief of severalšpublished and electronic editions, for example: Medi@lmanac, Mediascope, World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies and MediaTrends. Her scientific articles, monographs and manuals areštranslated into many foreign languages and published all around thešworld. She is the Foreign Professor of the Helsinki and TamperešUniversities in Finland, regularly gives lectures in European countries and in thešUSA. She is a Member of International Board of the InternationalšAssociation for Media and Communication Research ? IAMCR, member ofšthe European Media Management Education Association ? EMMA and otheršinternational organizations.

Dean?s office:
Tel.: +7 (495) 629 74 35
Fax: +7 (495) 629 49 54
E-mail:šreferent@smi.msu.ru
Room 211