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Elina Beketova is an in-residence fellow with the Democracy Fellowship program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). She writes about temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

Beketova started her career as a print journalist in Crimea. Later she participated in the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship at Wake Forest University and the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program at the University of Mississippi.

Elina Beketova worked as a journalist, editor, and TV-anchor for different news stations in Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukraine. As a part of International Insight, the TV program Elina hosted, she conducted in-studio, Skype and field interviews with the following guests: Anne Applebaum, Carl Bildt, Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, Wesley Clark, Pat Cox, John Herbst, David Kramer, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Edward Lucas, Steven Pifer, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Radoslaw Sikorski, Jens Stoltenberg, Kurt Volker, Lech Wałęsa, Andrew Wilson, Fareed Zakaria and other respected people of the world.

Beketova holds a master’s degree in journalism from Kharkiv National University and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the Kyiv Institute of Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy.