Richard Arnold, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Muskingum University where he teaches courses on international relations and comparative politics. Dr. Arnold wrote his doctoral dissertation on Neo-Nazi skinhead violence in the Russian Federation and his work has appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, and Journal for the Study of Radicalism. He is guest editor of a special edition of Problems of Post-Communism on the Sochi winter Olympics in 2014. Dr. Arnold is currently working on race riots in Russia and violence against Meskhetian Turks in Rostov and Krasnodar as part of a book project.