Research: Russian influence on historical memory in Kazakhstan. The case study of the famine in the steppe (1930-33)
Jessica Venturini obtained her bachelor's degree in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation at Sapienza University with a dissertation in History of International Relations on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (1979-1989). Then she continued her studies at the same university by enrolling in the master's degree course in Development and International Cooperation Sciences - Economics for Development. Getting a one-year scholarship, she also spent the second year of her studies in Kazakhstan, at the faculty of History at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, obtaining a double degree. She defended a thesis entitled "Eurasianism and Geopolitics. The Kazakh Influence on the Process of Eurasian Integration". Subsequently, thanks to a full scholarship, she took part in a first level master in Sustainable Development, Geopolitics of Resources and Arctic Studies at SIOI (Italian Society for International Organization). The final master's work focused on the ecological transition in Kazakhstan. In addition to the Central Asian country, she has also lived in Romania and Poland; and she spent a brief period in Russia. She worked shortly as analyst at the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition; she also taught for a semester at Columbus Academy in Rome. Since March 2020 she has been writing geopolitical analysis on the post-Soviet space for Osservatorio Russia, where she is the Central Asia desk head. She currently works as lead research analyst (due diligence).