Natalya Ryabinska is an Associate Professor at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Her research focuses on media systems in post-Communist Europe and Eurasia, media transformations in hybrid regimes, media and democracy, political and international communication, new media. In 2017 she published a book Ukraine’s Post-Communist Mass Media: Between Capture and Commercialization.

Lecturer at the Institute of Political Sciences the Polish Academy of Sciences (PhD Program) (2014), the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PhD Program) (2013-2014). Grant holder of the Central European University in Budapest. Member of the European Studies Unit at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences.