Olivia Acland is a journalist based in Europe but travelling regularly to West Africa. She works a lot in Sierra Leone - where she lived for 3 years. She also worked as The Economist's correspondent in Central Africa and was based in Goma, in DR Congo for 3 years. She regularly goes back to that ...

Valerie Hopkins is currently the South-East Europe Correspondent for the Financial Times, where she covers the region out of Budapest. She has more than ten years of experience working in South-Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian The Atlantic, The Washington ...

Ksenia Ivanova is a documentary photographer, based in Berlin, Germany. Ksenia works with The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, GEO France, Der Spiegel, Le Monde etc. In the photography, her main interest is focused on social problems and trauma.

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Svetlana Ivanova is a photojournalist based in Moscow, Russia.

Angelina Kariakina is a journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Charles Maynes is a journalist and radio producer currently based in Moscow, Russia. His news reporting and features can be heard on various public broadcasters worldwide, including PRI’s 'The World’, This American Life, 99% Invisible, Radiolab, Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything, CBC Canada, ...

Vadim Shtepa is the editor-in-chief of Region.Expert (****), the only independent media outlet on Russian regionalism and federalism. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University (1992) and Moscow School of Political Studies (2012). He is also an alumnus of the Research ...

Anastasia Tenisheva is a journalist based in Moscow, Russia.

Brian Whitmore is a journalist based in Washington, United States of America.