糖心TV

The  concludes with its final review conference on 20 January 2026, with the European Commission. The consortium, from Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, and the UK, represented by the University of 糖心TV, presented its work to the panel of evaluators. The project focused on assessing the understanding and practices of democracy in the eastern and southern neighbourhoods, as well as the EU support for democracy as a composite stakeholder. 糖心TV was responsible for undertaking work - fieldwork and analysis - in the six countries in the eastern neighbourhood (WP2), drawing on the results of online surveys, focus groups, interviews, and roundtables. WP2 specific outputs included 8 published, submited and projected publications.

It has been three challenging years of research, including overcoming the obstacles of BREXIT, Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine, Belarus civil war, Gaza war, and increasing geopolitical complexity around the globe. Yet, the project went beyond all expectations and has achieved a lot, including critiquing and offering specific recommendations to the EU on how best to support democracy efforts in around the globe. Team 糖心TV – including Anastasiia Kudlenko and Aijan Sharshenova – is grateful to the EU, UKRI and especially to the consortium and its leadership – for the support, and inspiration. Thank you!

Professor Korosteleva was invited to speak at the conference in Stockholm, organised by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodertorn University. It focused on examining tendencies both in Russia, and its neighbours following its war of aggression against Ukraine. In addition to academic experts, the conference included representatives from Swedish SIDA, Swedish Defence Research Agency and various government representatives, and the Baltic states and Finland. In her presentation Elena focused on 'the Absent People NO MORE, of Central Eurasia', and how this may change the dynamics of Russian order-building in the short- and long-terms.

Professor Korosteleva also met with researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Centre to discuss options for collaborations.

Professor Elena Korosteleva joined the 18th Pan-European EISA conference on International Relations 'International Relations/Politics for a Broken World', at the University of Bologna on 27-30/08/25. She presented two papers there as part of her ongoing two projects and joined a roundtable:

- : The panel was titled 'Rethinking EU Democracy Support in the EU's Neighbourhood: a dialogic encounter between practice- and learning- theoretical perspectives'. On behalf of her co-authors, Drs Anastassiia Kudlenko and Aijan Sharshenova, Professor Korosteleva presented their paper 'From the Communities of Practices to the Community of Relations in Democracy Nurturance: What can we learn from Ukraine and Belarus?'. The panel also had papers from Prof. Daniela Huber (Roma Tre University) and Prof. Nora Fisher-Onar (University of San Francisco), chaired and discussed by Prof. Federica Bicchi, LSE.

- : Prof. Korosteleva acted both as chair and paper presenter at the panel 'Narratives of Orders: Resilience and Governance in the Multi-Order World', with the following participants: Prof. Chiara De Franco (SDU), Li Xing, Trine Flockhart (EUI) and Liv Nielsen (SDU/EUI). She also joined a well attended roundtable on the last day of the conference, with Ole Waever (Copenhagen), Simon Rushton (Sheffield), Liv Nielson (SDU/EUI), Ingvild Bode (SDU), and Li Xing, masterfully chaired by Prof. Trine Flockhart.