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Andrey Korotayev is a Russian scientist who is a senior research professor at the International Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macrodynamics (PDSM). He is also the director of the PDSM and the president of the International Institute for Social Dynamics and Human Civilizations. Korotayev is a specialist in mathematical modeling of social dynamics, sociopolitical processes, and long-term trends in the development of human civilization.