BSIS PhD student Tomislava Penkova in interviewed in Region Plus this month on EU cooperation with Armenia. The full interview can be found at http://regionplus.az/en/articles/view/2272
Tomislava started her PhD studies in International Relations at BSIS in January 2011. She earned a MA in International Relations and a LLM in Law both from the State University of Milan (Italy) and she specialized in Russia’s Foreign Policy and EU-Russia relations at MGIMO Institute in Moscow (Russia). In 2011 and 2012 she was a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Moscow Centre (Russia). She is also working as a Research Fellow on Russia and the EU Eastern Neighbours at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies with which she has extensively published on issues regarding Russia’s foreign policy. She is lecturing on Russia’s policies in the former Soviet space and Russo-Ukrainian relations at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy). Tomislava’s research supervisors are Dr. Tom Casier at BSIS and Prof. Richard Sakwa at the main campus in Canterbury.