Ekaterina Romanova is a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. Her current research interest focuses on political communication, media systems in authoritarian regimes, and political PR. Ekaterina received a Fulbright scholarship in Russia to get her Master’s degree from Ball State University (Indiana). Before coming to the States, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Russian Philology and a Master’s degree in Applied Communications from Yaroslavl State University.