El´vis Beytullayev is a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He earned a Ph.D. in international studies at University of Cambridge in 2006. He will spend four months at Harvard (September 2006-December 2006) to work on the topic "The Crimean Political Scene in the Post-Soviet Era and Its Implications for Ukraine's Relations with Turkey and Russia." Beytullayev will examine how domestic Crimean politics have affected relations between Ukraine and Russia since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union.