Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning

alexandra[at]lossi36.com

Editor-in-Chief. Holds an MA in Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Affairs. Interested in LGBTQ+ and gender rights, civil society, and culture, particularly within the Black Sea region.

Lukas Baake

lukas[at]lossi36.com

Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Studied philosophy, history, economics, musicology, and international relations in Berlin, Paris, and London. Interested in Russia, the EU´s external policies, the South Caucasus, and geoeconomics.

Thijs Korsten

thijs[at]lossi36.com

Deputy Editor-in-chief. Holds an MA in International Relations from Central European University. Recently moved from East Germany to Brussels. Interested in thinking and writing about war, peace, and security policy in the South Caucasus and Eurasia from the perspectives of political sociology and critical security studies.

Maja Soomägi

maja[at]lossi36.com

Baltics regional editor. Maja Soomägi is a graduate of the University of Glasgow with a degree in Central and East European Studies and Politics. Main areas of interest include social and gender history of the post-socialist region and nationalism studies.

Liam Martin

liam[at]lossi36.com

South Caucasus regional editor. Liam is a MA student in Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is interested in security, development, and civil society in the post-Soviet space

ariadna[at]lossi36.com

Central Asia regional editor. Currently based in Barcelona, Ariadna holds a BA in Journalism and a MA in Central and Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. Main areas of interest are post-socialist memory, social trends, interior politics, and foreign relations in Central Asia and the Balkans.

Evangeline Moore

evangeline[at]lossi36.com

Central Europe regional editor. Evangeline holds an MA in Conflict & Democracy Studies from Masaryk University. Interested in the quality and operationalization of democracy, national identity, civil society, and electoral methods.

Liza Zolotarova

liza[at]lossi36.com

Eastern Europe regional editor. Liza is a Nationalism Studies student at Central European University with a background in International Relations and Turkish Studies. She is interested in topics of language policies and politics, symbolic attachments, transnational migration, displacement, and urban development with a special focus on Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

Jack Strosser

jack[at]lossi36.com

Russia regional editor. Currently based in Paris by way of Saint-Petersburg, Vienna, and then Bishkek. Interested in Russian political economy, Central Asian political economy, relations between the US-EU-Russia, relations between US-EU-Central Asia, and the political economy of the green transition and sustainable development as it relates to all of the above.

Mia Uremovic

mia[at]lossi36.com

Southeastern Europe regional editor. Mia has an academic background in modern languages and international relations. Originally from and based in Zagreb, Croatia, she currently works in public policy. Areas of interest include feminism, climate justice, degrowth, and languages.

Hannah O’Sullivan

hannah@lossi36.com

Newsletter lead editor. Hannah is an MA student in Central & East European, Russian & Eurasia Studies. Her research interests focus on climate justice, energy policy, and post-imperial nation-building. She is currently researching climate justice in the Georgian hydropower sector.

Chaharika Uppal

Newsletter co-editor. Student, currently based in Northern India. Interested in Eurasian history, contemporary post-Soviet politics, and conflict regions.

Fiona De Cuyper

Newsletter co-editor. Fiona is currently undertaking a Master’s degree in Diplomatic Studies at Oxford University while pursuing her interests in the Arctic, EU foreign policy and the post-soviet space at a number of youth-led NGOs

Sára Osterrothová

communications[at]lossi36.com

Communications Officer. MA student in Balkan, Eurasian and Central European Studies with a specialisation in Russia and Eurasia at Charles University, Prague. Interested in collective memory and identity in post-socialist, post-colonial, and post-conflict contexts as well as democratisation and civil society, particularly in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.

Sümeyye Temirov

communications[at]lossi36.com

Communication officer. Studies human rights, digitisation, international relations, and regional studies in Estonia. Interested in forced displacement, migration, integration, security studies, and peace and conflict studies, with a focus on relationism. An activist, she works to highlight human stories affected by war and to promote dialogue on critical global issues through digital tools.

Mariam Vekua

communications[at]lossi36.com

Final year BA student in History, Politics and Economics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. Originally from Georgia, now based in London. Interested in memory politics, civil society, national identity, and ethnic minorities, particularly within the South Caucasus as well as certain regions in Russia.

Amanda Sonesson

amanda[at]lossi36.com

Chair of the association and of the board, co-founder. Based in Sweden. Currently working as a project manager for a Swedish NGO and freelance writer and analyst focused on Swedish and Russian politics and economy. Main areas of interest include everything gender, culture and civil society in Eastern Europe/Eurasia.

Owen Howells Ottin

Vice chair. Owen Howells Ottin is a former IMCEERES alumnus and former Lossi 36 Regional Editor. He currently works in the University sector and spends his spare time producing mini-docs with his husband, writing articles and attempting to visit every country in the world.

Harry Fennell

Originally from Ireland, but currently living in Glasgow, Scotland. Harry is currently working towards a masters degree in IMCEERES. He enjoy travelling, learning new languages, reading and writing about history, and playing tennis.

Samuel Naumovski Vickius

Samuel is a student of international social sciences with a specialization in peace and development. He was born and raised in Sweden, with roots from Macedonia. He has experience working voluntarily for several NGOs, including the UN Association of Sweden, Swedish Red Cross and his own established organization United Equality.

Lukas Baake

lukas[at]lossi36.com

Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Studied philosophy, history, economics, musicology, and international relations in Berlin, Paris, and London. Interested in Russia, the EU´s external policies, the South Caucasus, and geoeconomics.

Tumka (Autumn) Mozeliak

autumn[at]lossi36.com

Criminologist based in the Czech Republic and undertaking a master’s in Central European and Balkan studies at Charles University. Academic research focuses on organised crime, violence/homicide, and criminal policy in Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe. Other areas of interest include ethnology, geopolitics and history in the Lossi 36 regions.

Tijs van de Vijver

Tijs holds degrees from Leiden University, and currently works as a researcher & programme manager at the Netherlands School for Public Administration (NSOB). Tijs was the Lead Editor of Lossi 36 Weekly for over two years.

Ludovica Grossi

Ludovica studied Russian, East European and EU Studies. Based in the UK, previously Brussels. She has experience working in politics and EU institutions and supporting UK researchers engaged in EU funding programmes. Interested in international affairs, politics and history.

Contributors

Adriano Rodair, Agnieszka Zielonka, Aida Akhmedova, Aigerim Nurseitova, Aizada Arystanbek, Alexander Figurski, Alexandra Slobodov, Alexandra Wishart, Alexandra West, Ana Robakidze, Anastasia Dmitrichenko, Anastasia Karkotskaya, Anastasiya K, Anita Pant, Anna Blue, Ariadna Mane, Augusto Dala Costa, Balsa Lubarda, Bart Alting, Ben Halliday, Catalina Ceban, Caterna Barbi, Ceren Kaya, Charles Fourmi, Chris Coljin, Daniela Munteanu, Daniela Antonovska, Dávid Pieš , David Živković, Elise Mazaud, Ellen Magee, Elsa Court, Emma Lygnerud Boberg, Eva Modebadze, Evguenia Roussel, Felipe Barrientos, Felix Adamson, Filip Rudnik, Florian Coppenrath, Francesco Trupia, Friederike Hartwich, Georgie McCartney, Giorgi Benashvili, Gloria Trifonova, Hamed Kazemzadeh, Hanna Boiko, Hanna Hodgetts, Hannah O’Sullivan, Harold Chambers, Hugo Blewett-Mundy, Ia Khodeli, Ilinka Leger, Ionut Chiruta, Ivan Ivoilov, Ivan U. Klyszcz, Ivana Hadjievska, Jack Gibson, Jack Gill, Jacob Armstrong, Joni Askola, Joseph Elgars, Josh Bean, Judit Deen Jules Ortjens, Juliette Bretan, Kalina Esmein, Karolína Šugarová, Kaspar Schultz, Katerina Bogdanova, Kimberly St Julian-Varnon, Kristy Dick, Kristin Aldag, Kristina Tsabalam Kristine Pitalskaia, Krzysztof Lechowski, Lance Bradley, Laura Kühlert, Levi Bochantin, Lili Rutai, Logan Hulsey, Louis Train, Lucie Tafforin, Ludovica Grossi, Luis Felipe Sauvalle Torres, Luka Jorbenadze, Mahammad Mammadov, Maja Soomägi, Manon Gallet, Margarita Zilinskaya, Marie Mach, Marina Klimanova, Martina Bergamaschi, Martina Urbinti, Marton Gera, Marysia Suchcitz, Maša Šebek, Máté Mohos, Megan McCullough, Merijin Hermens, Michel Krysiak, Miguel Gómez Hernández, Mina Medjedovic, Monika Szafrańska, Myriam Marino, Naser Bislimi, Matalija Stepanovic, Nathan Alan-Lee, Nicholas Morgan, Nick Baigent, Niels van der Togt, Nikki Lohr, Nikol Tomar, Nina Vukoslavcevic, Nino Chanadiri, Oleksii Rudenko, Owen Howells, Patricia Manos, Paul Shields, Pavlo Cherchatyi, Petronella Dahl, Phoebe Williams, Pippa Crawford, Qianrui Hu, Rachele Colombo, Rebecca Shaw, Renée Rippberger, Rhiannon Segar, Ricardo Bergmann, Roland Papp, Rossana Bernardi, Roxana Chiariac, Ryan Patterson, Ryan Michael Schweitzer, Sabrina Gafforova, Sam Appels, Sarah Fairman, Sasha Mischeriakova, Sergey Kaplichniy, Shujaat Ahmadzada, Silvia Travasoni, Simon Jyrkäs, Sofia Graziano, Sofiya Kominko, Solveiga Kalva, Stefan Žarić, SvetLana Peshkova, Tadeusz Giczan, Tamara Novel, Tamara Stoffers, Tatia Vaktangadze, Teona Sekhniashvili, Tereza Dvořáková, Thapanee Tubnonghee, Thomas Barrett, Valentin Fabre, Veronika Pfeilschifter, Ville Haapanen, Vira Kompaniiets, William Dudley, Xhorxhina Molla, Yanyu Chen, Zack Kramer, Zadig Tisserandm Zhanar Sekerbayeva, Zuzana Krulichova.