Three faces of Russian foreign policy in post-Soviet space

Svitlana Zalishchuk is a Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Prior to that she served as an elected member of Parliament of Ukraine since 2014. Ms Zalishchuk began her career as a TV and newspaper journalist. Later, she joined the presidential administration serving as a spokesperson to the Chief of Staff during 2005-2006. Ms Zalishchuk has co-founded and run the NGO ‘Centre of United Actions’. She has also founded the government watchdog CHESNO (Fair) and co-founded the Reanimation Package of Reforms, a platform that unites around 50 NGOs promoting democratic reforms in Ukraine. She has been granted the Anna Lindh Prize as a human rights defender (2016).

Stanislav Secrieru is Senior Analyst at the EUISS, where he covers Russia and the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. His research interests are EU-Russia relations, Russia’s foreign and security policy in the post-Soviet region, protracted conflicts and the EU’s relations with the Eastern Partnership states. Before joining the EUISS, Stanislav was a Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (2014-2016) and a Policy Analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels (2016-2017). He has also been a Research Fellow at the NATO Defence College (2006), the Institute for European Politics (2009-2010) and the New Europe College (2011-2012). Stanislav holds a PhD from the National School of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest.

Artyom Shraibman is a Belarusian Political Analyst, contributor for TUT.BY and Carnegie.ru. Mr Shraibman is a founder of Sense Analytics, a consultancy agency that provides comprehensive political analysis on Belarus. Previously he worked in political journalism in Belarus for more than five years. Mr Shraibman holds a LLb in International Law (Belarusian State University) and MSc in Politics and Communications (London School of Economics).