Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester and President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. He has published widely on the Russian media and recently completed a major grant project on European television representations of Islam.Chris Flood is Professor of European Studies in the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. He has published extensively on ideological discourses, theory of political myth as a form of communication, and the role of intellectuals as (re)producers of political ideas in Britain and France.Galina Miazhevich is the Gorbachev Media Research Fellow at Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, and a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church. Her principal research theme is social power and globalization in Eastern Europe. She also works on media representations of terrorism, and new media and democracy in post-communist Europe.Henri Nickels is Programme Manager for Research (Social Science) at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna. He works on analysing migration fluxes, combining research and policy work. He has published on media coverage of ethnic minorities in European societies, including Britain and France.