Roman Lunkin

Roman Nikolaevich Lunkin (born June 13, 1976, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian religious studies scholar, sociologist of religion, publicist, and journalist.

In 1998, he hosted the program “Historical Calendar” on the Christian Church and Community Channel of Radio Sofia. defending his thesis on the Apostle John the Theologian.

From 1998 to 2000, he was a correspondent for the Keston News Service and the English-language magazine Frontier. A significant portion of the publications in the second volume of Contemporary Religious Life in Russia, or more than a third of the book's total volume—was authored by Roman Lunkin.

From 2001 to 2002, he served as editor and managing editor of Nasha Obshcheregionalnaya Gazeta, a socio-political weekly for the federal districts, and from 2002 to 2003, he was an editor-correspondent for the news service of the television company Channel Three (OJSC TRVK "Moskovia") and a correspondent for the program "Main Topic".

On February 7, 2003, he began contributing to the online journal Portal-Credo.ru. From 2004 to 2009, he served as a writer, reporter, and later columnist for Portal-Credo.ru.

Since June 2011, he has served as co-chair of the non-profit partnership "Guild of Experts on Religion and Law" alongside Inna Zagrebina, and later became president of the partnership.

Since September 2011, he has been the editor-in-chief of the online newspaper Религия и право "Religion and Law" of the Slavic Legal Center.

Participant in seminars at the Carnegie Moscow Center as part of the "Religion, Society, and Security" program. In the 2022 Russian Academy of Sciences elections, he ran for the position of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Global Problems and International Relations, but was not elected.

Personal life

He considers himself Orthodox; in his youth, he served as an altar boy.

He is friends with P. V. Mickiewicz and Yuri Sipko.

He is married to historian Elena Sitnikova and has a daughter and a son.

By his own admission, he considers politician Alexei Navalny to be the Antichrist.

Works

Thesis