JAROSLAVA BARBIERI

Jaroslava Barbieri is a Research Fellow at the Ukraine Forum within the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Her main areas of research interest include Ukrainian politics, Russian foreign policy, European security, and disinformation. In the past, she has contributed to various research projects on Ukraine supported by the UK government, USAID, and the European Commission. She regularly contributes to British and international media outlets.

Barbieri is completing her PhD in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, with a thesis examining Russia’s occupation policies in Ukraine since 2014, drawing parallels with its approach in Transnistria. She holds an MPhil in European Politics from the University of Oxford.