Kevin Limonier is an associate professor in Slavic studies at the French Institute of Geopolitics (Paris 8 University). He is also deputy director of the GEODE center and scientific director of the observatory of the Russian-speaking infosphere, a research structure dedicated to the analysis of post-Soviet digital spaces. He is a lecturer in several courses on cybernetic issues (Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan … etc.) and was for several years a lecturer at the Russian State University of Humanities (RGGU, Moscow). His research focuses on the development of new methods of mapping cyberspace, especially in the post-Soviet context. He is a specialist of the Russian-speaking Internet (Ru.net : geopolitics of Russian-speaking cyberspace, ed. L’Inventaire, coll. ” les carnets de l’Observatoire “, Paris, 2018) and of territorial innovation policies in the USSR and in contemporary Russia (L’Archipel des savants : histoire des anciennes villes d’élite du complexe scientifique soviétique, ed. B2, Paris, 2017).