Aleksey Malashenko

Aleksey Vsevolodovich Malashenko (; 2 February 1951 – 3 January 2023) was a Russian academic and political scientist. He specialized in the oriental and Islamic studies. He was the son of actress .

Biography Malashenko graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries in 1974 with a degree in history. In 1972, he studied in Egypt and Turkmenistan (USSR). From 1974 to 1976, he served in the Soviet Armed Forces in Algeria. He was a researcher at Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1976 to 1982. In 1978, he defended his dissertation on Islam in Algeria.

Malashenko was an editor at the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism from 1982 to 1986. In October 2016, he became head of scientific research at Dialogue of Civilizations. He was head of the expert council at RIA Novosti.

Works in English The Soviet Union and the Muslim Nations (1988) The Last Red August (1993) Islam in Central Asia (1994)