Hanna Hodgetts is a first-year MPhil student in Russian and East European Studies at St Antony’s college, Oxford, focusing on drives towards autocephaly in Eastern Europe, particularly in Estonia and Ukraine. She also acts as the Outreach Officer for the Oxford Perspektiva Society, inviting speakers from the Post-Soviet region to the college. Prior to this, she obtained a BA French and Russian from UCL in 2021 and subsequently interned with IOM in Chisinau, Moldova, supporting the agency’s work on gender-based violence and human trafficking. Thereupon, she interned at the Dutch newspaper Trouw, contributing to their coverage of the Post-Soviet region, and volunteered on the Polish-Ukrainian border with the humanitarian aid organisation KHARPP.