Argyrios Tasoulas is a historian of the Cold War and Russian foreign policy. His research explores the strategy, tactical approaches, and activities of the USSR in the Eastern Mediterranean. He received his MA in Modern and Contemporary Greek and European History from the University of Ioannina (2017), and his Ph.D. in History from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow (2021) as a fellow of the Russian government. His dissertation ‘The Cyprus issue in the foreign policy of the USSR, 1953-1974’ (in Russian), utilizing recently declassified Soviet and Greek archival material examines the main hallmarks of the USSR’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the Cyprus issue under the prism of its international behavior during the Cold War. His research has been published in English, Greek, and Russian in peer-reviewed journals, such as Voprosy Istorii (2020) and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2021).
