Belarus: domestic affairs, foreign policy, relations with the EU and Russia
The EU's Eastern Partnership
Cross-border dimensions of the EU’s relations with Eastern neighbours and Russia
Border conflicts and cooperation, Euroregions in Central and Eastern Europe

Ongoing research projects
OSCE monitoring of electoral processes in post-Soviet countries
Belarus in or out of the Eastern Partnership?
Cross-border cooperation in the Eastern neighbourhood: assessing ENPI CBC programmes (2007-2013)
Ukrainian Euroregions: competing cross-border region-building patterns (West/East)

Latest publications

“Bordering Time in the Cityscape. Street Renaming as Temporal Boundary-Making: Toponymic Changes in Leningrad/St. Petersburg”, Geopolitics, vol. 17, n° 1, January 2012, p. 192-216

Saving what can be: what the Eastern Partnership could (still) bring to Belarus, Eastern Partnership Review (Tallinn: Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership). No 3, 2011. Available in Belarusian.

Les Bélarusses victimes du rideau Schengen, Regard sur l'Est, 15 Novembre 2011, en co-auteur avec Larisa Titarenko. Available in Belarusian.

How to deal with an unfriendly neighbour? Belarus in the Eastern Partnership: five steps for a paradigm shift, EaPCommunity Analysis, 20 October 2011. Available in Belarusian.

Divided we fail: time for the EU to speak with one voice to Belarus, FIIA Briefing paper, # 85, 1 June 2011. Available in Belarusian.

From breach to bridge: the Augustów canal, an ecotourism destination across the EU's border with Belarus, Articulo - Journal of Urban Research, # 6, 2011

Belarus election. Fraud and repression as usual - Baltic Worlds, 29 December 2010

La guerre médiatique, nouvel outil de pression russe sur le régime biélorusse, Regard sur l'Est, dossier #56 'La Russie et son ‘étranger proche', 15/12/2010

Languages
French, English, Russian (working languages); Spanish (good); German, Finnish, Polish, Belarusian, Romanian (reading comprehension)