Rebeka Zvirbule is a third-year student at Riga Stradiņš University in the Bachelor's program "International Relations - European Studies" and a Junior Researcher at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. Rebeka's academic interests include the changing political dynamics of the EU in the Western Balkans, as well as the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans. Rebeka focuses in particular on analyzing Russian state media in the context of geopolitics.