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Gynen Venhari
Gynen Venhari is a seasoned media executive and journalist with over a decade of experience in international relations, diplomacy, and media management. Currently serving as CEO and Editor of The Geopost, a prominent geopolitical news platform, Gynen leads strategic content creation and research on global security issues, including Russian and Chinese influence in the Balkans.
Jelal Neziri
Xhelal Neziri is an experienced investigative journalist, analyst and trainer. He holds a Master's degree in Communication Sciences and wrote his thesis on the presence of investigative journalism in the print media in North Macedonia. Since 2018, Xhelal has been a PhD candidate in Political Science in the program "Democracy in the Age of Globalization".
He started working as a journalist in 2000 at a daily newspaper and has since worked for several local, regional and international media outlets. In 2006 and 2007, Xhelali coordinated, edited and co-authored two cross-border investigative stories, which won awards for best investigative stories.
Since 2008, he has represented the Danish SCOOP project in North Macedonia and coordinated national and transnational investigative stories. In 2011, Neziri was one of the co-founders of the first Center for Investigative Journalism in North Macedonia (SCOOP) and its first President. He held this position until May 2019.
Since 2021, Xhelali has been an Editor at the regional web portal TheGeopst, as well as the President of the BIRC Institute, an Investigative Editor at SCOOP-Macedonia, and an analyst for several local and regional media outlets. Internationally, he is a member of the International Advisory Board at Journalismfund.eu, based in Brussels, and a member of the Global Initiative's Network of Experts.
Lyudmila Makei - Ukrainian-language editor
Liudmyla is a freelance journalist (Ukraine), living and working in Pristina due to the large-scale occupation of Ukraine by Russia. She is a participant in the professional protection program “Residence in Kosovo”.
Liudmyla collaborates with the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, as well as with the publications lithuaniatributubri.com (Lithuania), opendemocracy.net (Great Britain), genevasolutions.news (Switzerland), Dron Media (Ukraine) and others. She writes about the war in Ukraine and Ukrainians affected by the war (analysis, articles, interviews, etc.).
A particular theme of her work is the experience of Balkan countries, and especially Kosovo, in rehabilitating victims of wartime sexual violence. Other topics include: gender politics and women's leadership, culture and society.
Hobbies: painting, Petrykivka art, playing the piano and singing, traveling.
Liudmyla joined The Geopost team in November 2024.
Lyudmila writes only for Ukrainian-language news and occasionally interviews Ukrainian experts who visit Kosovo or does so via Zoom.
Tetiana Kraselnykova – Journalist, Ukrainian
Tetiana completed her Master's degree in journalism at Dnipropetrovsk National University in 2011.
She worked as a correspondent at Kremenchuk Gazeta and Slovo Pridnestrovya from 2014 to 2018.
In 2020, she won the award in the category "Best Publication in Print Media" at the Poltava Regional Competition, as Journalist of the Year.
In 2014, he received a special award from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine at the All-Ukrainian competition of journalistic materials “It is profitable to be healthy!”.
Winner of the 5th Pavlo Naniev Literary Competition "Lira Bessarabe" (2013).
Winner of the prize at the International Competition of Creative Writing “Ukraine of My Dreams” (2011).
Tetiana writes only for Ukrainian-language news and occasionally interviews Ukrainian experts who visit Kosovo or does so via Zoom.
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Fact-checking of disinformation in Russian and Serbian.
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