Valery Engel is an expert on radical right movements in the former Soviet Union. He has a special interest in the comparative and motivational analysis of European xenophobia and radicalism. Dr. Engel is the senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, president of the European Center for Democracy Development (ECDD) in Latvia and member of the expert group of the Global Research Network of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. Dr. Engel is the chief editor and scientific director of the ECDD project, "Xenophobia, Radicalism and Hate Crime in OSCE Area," — http://civic-nation.org.