Vakhstayn was born on January 23, 1981, in
Penza,
Soviet Union. In 2002 he graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of the
V. G. Belinsky Penza State Pedagogical University (now
Penza State University) and moved to
Moscow, where he received a master's degree in sociology at
MSSES in 2003. In the same year, he graduated from the same programme at the
University of Manchester. In 2007, he graduated from graduate school of the
Higher School of Economics and obtained a
Candidate of Sciences (
Ph.D) degree in sociology by defending a thesis on "Framing Theory as a Method for Sociological Analysis of Everyday Life". Since 2011, he has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies at the
Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology and Head of the Department of Theoretical Sociology and Epistemology at the
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. According to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Vakhstayn has migrated to
Israel before the start of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 22 April 2022, Russian
Ministry of Justice included Vakhstayn in its "
foreign agents" list. == References ==