On the night of January 19, Russian historian and political scientist Anatoly Ivanovich Utkin died. As the Interfax agency reports , the director of the Center for International Studies at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences died at the age of 66. The death of the scientist was confirmed in an interview with Interfax by Sergei Rogov, director of the Institute of Gastrointestinal Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Utkin was engaged in research in the field of international relations; his special area of scientific interest was the regional policy of the United States, including in Europe. In addition, Utkin studied the history of the Cold War. During his career, the deceased taught at the Bosphorus Institute in Istanbul, the Ecole Normale in Paris and Columbia University in New York. He worked as an advisor to the International Affairs Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Anatoly Ivanovich was born on February 4, 1944 in the city of Balakovo, Saratov region, graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University in 1968, defended his Ph.D. thesis in 1972, and his doctorate in 1982. Since 1994, he has been a professor at the Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training of Teachers of the Humanities and Social Sciences (IPK) at Moscow State University; he headed the Center for International Research at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. Utkin is the author of approximately 50 monographs and chapters in collective works, 150 scientific articles and many other works.

Russian historian Anatoly Utkin has died