• Doctor of Political Sciences
• Leading Researcher (Political Science Department)

Research interests: the study of the political use of images of the past in mass culture for the formation of images of heroes and significant strangers; analysis of video games as a tool for designing and correcting national and state identity.

Featured articles

1. Belov S. I. Reflection of the Caribbean crisis in video games: on the example of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Series // Political Science. History. International Relations". 2023. № 2. pp. 105–116. https://politicalscience.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/473
2. Belov S. I., Vanteevsky M. M., Yarosheva D. V. Value preferences of modern Russian youth: results of generalization of expert opinions. 2023. № 2. P. 163-178. https://www.politnauka.ru/jour/article/view/920
3. Belov S. I. Video games as a resource for countering the rehabilitation of Nazism, national chauvinism and militarism: untapped potential. Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University. Series: History and Political Sciences. 2022. № 3. pp. 39-49. https://www.istpolitmgou.ru/jour/article/view/1466
4. Belov S. I. Historical symbols of video games as a factor of correction of social memory of the population (based on the materials of the Assassin's Creed franchise) // Dialog with time. 2022. Issue 81. Pp. 242-248. https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?edn=vgiwbr
5. Belov S. I. State policy of memory in Ukraine after Euromaidan // International life. 2022. № 3. pp. 28-35. https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=48127061    
6. Belov S. I. prospects for the use of video games and the industry of their production as a policy instrument of memory from the point of view of the relevant public authorities and NGOs // Questions of science. 2021. Volume 11. No. 10 (74). pp. 2747-2753 https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=4716379
7. Belov S. I. Problemy digitalizatsii politicheskoi kommunikatsii [Problems of digitalization of political communication]. 2021. volume 5, No. 3, pp. 16-22. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46659011   
8. Belov S. I. Methodology for studying video games as a symbolic policy tool // Questions of political science. No. 9 (73). Vol. 11. 2021. pp. 2457-2464 https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46640070  
9. Belov S. I. Video games with a historical plot as a factor of generation and erosion of ingroup favoritism of Russians // Bulletin of the Moscow University. Series 12: Politicheskie nauki, No. 3, 2021, pp. 35-47. http://vestnikpolit.ru/articles/article/4124/  
10. Belov S. I. The universe of "Volya": comics and board games as a tool for implementing the memory policy in modern Ukraine. // Information wars. 2021. № 2 (58). pp. 46-51. https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46400559
11. Belov S. I. Prospects of using video games as a means of positioning the foreign policy of the Russian Federation // Journal of political research. 2021. Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 57-65. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46346696
12. Belov S. I. Prospects of using video games with a historical plot as a tool for the memory policy of the Russian Federation // Voprosy politologii [Questions of Political Science], vol. 11, No. 4 (68), pp. 1089-1096. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=45681153   
13. Belov S. I. Presidential Grants Fund as an instrument of memory policy in relation to the Great Patriotic War // Bulletin of the Peoples ' Friendship University of Russia. Series: State and municipal administration. 2021. Vol. 8. No. 2. pp. 173-185. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=45711315
14. Belov S. I. The image of the "American Enemy" in the historical discourse of Soviet cinema as an instrument of information warfare against the United States during the Cold War. 2020. No. 2. pp. 58-63. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=42981587   
15. Belov S. I., Zhidchenko A.V. The image of a phantom threat for children from the United States in the Soviet historical cinema of the Cold War period. Zhurnal politicheskikh issledovaniy [Journal of Political Research]. 2020. Vol. 4. no. 1. pp. 25-37. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=42646920  

Dissertations were defended:

PhD thesis "The industrial development of the Upper Volga provinces during the First World War (1914 - February 1917)". Specialty of the PhD thesis: 07.00.02 - National history. Academic degree award year: 2012.

Doctoral dissertation "Transformations of the memory policy in relation to the Second World War in 2008-2018". Specialty of the doctoral dissertation: 23.00.02 - Political institutions, processes and technologies. Academic degree award year: 2022.

Additionally

• Since 2019, he has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University: https://polit.msu.ru/teachers/belov/  

• Since 2022, he has been a member of the MSU Dissertation Council. 054. 2 - Political Sociology (political sciences).