Maya Ivanova

maya[at]lossi36.com

Editor-in-Chief. Studied international security and risk management in Scotland, France, and Denmark. Interested in security, defence policy, migration, gender and passionate about security sector reform and understanding the security dynamics that shape the post-Soviet space.

Georgie Archer

georgie[at]lossi36.com

Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Georgie holds an MRes in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews and works in the charity sector. She’s interested in the effects of imperialism across the post-Soviet sphere, specifically how everyday acts like language choices come to be negotiations and performances of resistance.

Jonas Heins

jonas[at]lossi36.com

Baltics regional editor. Jonas holds an MA in European Studies – Global Social Policy and Human Security from the University of Padova and is currently pursuing an MA in Central and East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. His main interests revolve around human security, resilience, EU accession processes, and the literary traditions of modern nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe. He has previously worked for employers in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

Alexander John Paul Lutz

alexander[at]lossi36.com

South Caucasus regional editor. Incoming MAERES student at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School. Interested in the politics of religion in the post-Soviet space, especially how individuals and communities navigate questions of belonging, meaning, and purpose in the long shadow of imperial, ideological, and epistemic collapse.

oliver[at]lossi36.com

Central Asia regional editor. Oliver holds a BA in European Studies from Trinity College Dublin and is currently working towards his MA in Central and East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies on exchange at KIMEP University in Almaty. He has a deep interest in the international politics of Central Asia, literature in the post-socialist space, and the study of cultural expressions of national identity.

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

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.

Sára Osterrothová

board[at]lossi36.com

Chair of the Board. Holds a Master’s degree in Balkan, Eurasian and Central European Studies with a specialisation in Russia and Eurasia from Charles University, Prague. Interested in collective memory and identity in post-socialist, post-colonial, and post-conflict contexts as well as democratic resilience and civil society, particularly in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.

Nina Pániková

Nina Pániková is a Senior Capacity-Building Officer at Human Rights House Foundation, leading capacity-building efforts to support human rights defenders in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. She co-hosts the Talk Eastern Europe weekly podcast and previously worked at the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, and in Slovakia.

Jakub Crcha

Hannah Shedden

Hannah holds an MSc in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies from the University of Glasgow. She is currently working as a journalist in the UK and is interested in Ukraine, conflict, and migration studies.

Maya Ivanova

maya[at]lossi36.com

Editor-in-Chief. Studied international security and risk management in Scotland, France, and Denmark. Interested in security, defence policy, migration, gender and passionate about security sector reform and understanding the security dynamics that shape the post-Soviet space.

Georgie Archer

georgie[at]lossi36.com

Deputy Editor-in-Chief. Georgie holds an MRes in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews and works in the charity sector. She’s interested in the effects of imperialism across the post-Soviet sphere, specifically how everyday acts like language choices come to be negotiations and performances of resistance.

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.