I am currently a researcher and a PhD candidate at the Department for European Integration, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences. My main academic interest is the EU external policy in the South Caucasus region, namely its normative component. I got my Diploma in Economics from the Russian-Armenian State University and my Master degree in European Studies: Ideas and Identities from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. I also work for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Moscow bureau as a project coordinator.