Dr. Anna Matveeva is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, Russia Institute, and an author of Through Times of Trouble: Conflict in Southeastern Ukraine Explained from Within, Lexington Books, 2018. She specialises in issues of peace and conflict, and had a previous career at the United Nations Development Programme.
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