Corruption Memorials
29. April 2018Four years after the end of the Euromaidan protests in Kiev in 2014, which cost 100 human lives, people in Ukraine are still coming to […]
Read MoreFour years after the end of the Euromaidan protests in Kiev in 2014, which cost 100 human lives, people in Ukraine are still coming to […]
Read MoreAs the final part of this year’s “Memory as a Tool of Change: Forgotten Places in Siberia”-project all German and Russian participants have created a […]
Read MoreSiberian cities such as Khanty- Mansiysk and Novy Urengoy sound almost exotic, even to experienced travelers to Eastern Europe. But these thousands of sparsely populated kilometres […]
Read MoreAfter our night trip to the former Gulag camps alongthe Salekhard-Igarka Railway, we had the chance to stop in Pangody. It’s a small town but […]
Read MoreVisiting two former labour camps along the 501 Railroad, more commonly (together with Railroad 503) known as the Transpolar Mainline, Dead Road or Stalinbahn, was […]
Read MoreEarly in the morning, the group took off from Khanti-Mansysk to visit an abandoned village, called Lorba. After about 3 hours drive along smaller roads […]
Read MoreNights are short in Siberia. After a bus trip through infinite forests we arrived at Khanty-Mansiysk at 11 pm, but the sky reminded us rather […]
Read MoreJuly 3, 2017. Heavy rain pours down on us as we leave our minibus in Tobolsk. 140 km north of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the […]
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Lea is Co-Regional Director for Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Lea is currently studying an Erasmus Mundus Double Master in European Politics and Society in Prague, Krakow and Leiden. She previously studied European Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt and spent one semester as a Hessen-Wisconsin scholar at the University of Wisconsin in the North of the USA. After internships at the U.S. consulate general in Frankfurt and an NGO in the USA, she supported multiple organizations with fundraising as an UN online volunteer. Aside from her work at IFAIR, Lea also helps organizing EU simulations in France and Bulgaria. Her interests lie in strengthening democracy and human rights, amplifying the voices of young people in politics and society as well as fostering international knowledge exchange. Lea speaks German, English, Spanish and a bit of Czech. She is also currently learning French and Russian.
E-Mail: lea.siebel@ifair.eu
Lance is Regional Co-Director for Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
Lance is a student of International Relations at the University of Tartu in Estonia. In Tartu he has a Russian regional specialization and works alongside Professors and PhD candidates in the De Facto States Research Unit. Before moving to Estonia, Lance studied economics and development at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. In his Bachelors, he completed two semesters abroad: in Yekaterinburg, Russia and Iași, Romania. He wrote his thesis on conflict resolution between Moldova and Transnistria He is especially interested in topics in civil society and geopolitics. Lance speaks English, German, Russian and is learning Romanian.
E-Mail: lance.bradley@ifair.eu