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Eva Jovanova
Eva is an Editor at The Vostokian. She is a Skopje native and a current Master's Candidate and Fellow at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Eva holds a BA degree in European Studies from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany, where she studied on a full merit-based DAAD scholarship. Her main interest is the European integration of the Western Balkans, as well as the domestic politics and society of the East and Southeast European countries.
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Eastern Europe

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the drastic drop from five to one million army personnel was not the only burden that the Russian military was facing. A great ...
Eastern Europe

The anti-Western narrative aimed at the Russian audience that accompanied Russia’s military resurgence was three-fold: the expansion of NATO, the Western military intervention in the Middle East, and the Western ...
Balkans

As we are entering the pivotal week for understanding how Brexit is going to untangle, there are obvious reasons to be anxious. If the EU will extend the negotiation period ...
Balkans

The political crisis in Macedonia that began in 2015 and allegedly ended with the change of government in 2017 seems to be as relevant as ever to understand the current ...
Balkans

Around 37% (or 650.000) of the eligible voters cast their votes in last Sunday’s referendum on the Prespa agreement between Greece and Macedonia. The referendum provisioned Macedonia’s name change with ...
Balkans

This Sunday, Macedonian citizens are expected to go to the polling stations and decide on changing the country’s name to North Macedonia with the promise of NATO and EU membership. ...
Balkans

If you encountered posters for the local election campaign in Macedonia, you might get the idea that “Life is coming to Macedonia for everyone” (SDSM’s election slogan since the 2016 ...
Balkans

“The Sun, too, is a Star” was the slogan of the campaign for the European integration of Macedonia launched by the Social Democratic Party (SDSM) in the early 2000s. The ...
Balkans

Two and half years ago, when I was informed that I received a scholarship to pursue my Bachelor’s degree in Germany, my whole family gathered to celebrate. It was ridiculous ...
Balkans

Huge masses of protesters have flooded Macedonia’s capital after President Gjorgje Ivanov decided to pardon politicians facing criminal charges from both government and opposition parties on 12 April. By exonerating ...