A spider’s web of poisoning cases
Regardless of whether it ordered the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin has created a system in which the powerful believe they can kill with impunity
Experts & Staff
Iliyana Kondareva
ECFR Alumni · Office Assistant, ECFR Sofia
Languages
Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish
Biography
Iliyana Kondareva was the Sofia Office Assistant at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She joined ECFR in September 2019 as an intern.
Kondareva holds a Bachelor’s degree in European studies and a Master’s degree in European Integration and Diplomacy of the EU from Sofia University. Her Master’s thesis focused on the EU’s influence in the field of human rights in its foreign relations.
In the media
The success of the new leadership in the country will largely be based on its ability to carry out the ambitious, long-awaited judicial reform and thus meet elector expectations
Iliyana Kondareva with an article on Kiril Petkov and the new leadership in Bulgaria
EU sanctions remain, above all, an important instrument of solidarity and one of the EU’s most powerful soft levers, which it should continue using
In her article, Iliyana Kondareva answers the question whether we should stop using sanctions against human rights violators