Danila Bochkarev is a political analyst, specializing in the russian foreign and energy policy, and international security issues. prior to joining eastWest institute's Global security team in Brussels, he was an inBev Baillet-Latour scholar at universite catholique de Louvain. Danila is the author of a number of academics publications in english and russian and held shell and French Government scholarships. he studied political science (university college London), history (university of Paris)