Master of Science (MS) · Bachelor's: Leiden University
Hanka holds an MSc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in International Studies from Leiden University. Coming from Slovakia, she is passionate about Central and Eastern Europe, EU enlargement, the Eastern Partnership, and the Western Balkans. She has experience from several think tanks in this field and enjoys contributing to debates on Europe’s future. Outside her mother tongue, she is fluent in English and German and proficient in French and Czech.
Examining the June 2026 Armenian parliamentary elections, this brief investigates how Russia combined economic coercion, trade restrictions, and digital information operations to shape the country’s political landscape. It highlights how economic pressure validates foreign disinformation narrativ…
How does Russia leverage AI and the digital domain to destabilise Eastern Europe’s security architecture? Moscow utilises an automated ecosystem of generative AI, cyber-kinetic attacks, and domestic proxies to exploit societal fractures, inducing strategic paralysis in “in-between” states. To cou…
