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Bradley Jardine

Bradley Jardine is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the University of Glasgow as part of a two-year Erasmus Mundus program focused on Eurasian politics. His research thesis is focused on Turkmenistan’s foreign policy. Bradley has travelled extensively throughout the post-Soviet world, and directly experienced the Maidan protests while working as a GMAT instructor in Kiev. In 2013, he conducted research at KIMEP University in Kazakhstan, where he analyzed Israel’s energy security strategies in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. He is currently learning Russian and speaks it at an intermediate level.

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