Valentin Luntumbue

Valentin is Brussels-born, having absorbed the cosmopolitanism of the zinneke spirit in his childhood. He studied History, Sociology, Political Science and IR in his home city, Madrid and Saint-Petersburg, and has worked in Brussels, Kyiv, and Barcelona. He’s an incorrigibly restless traveler, a misunderstood art critic, a procrastinative writer, and an accomplished fine beer connaisseur. He also likes cats.

In Tbilisi, with exiled members of Azerbaijan’s civil society

Walking uphill from the Heydar Aliyev enbankment, along the Koura river, we were strolling the grounds of Tbilisi’s Saburtalo district. After passing shiny modern buildings under construction, we arrived early on Almasiani street, a dusty lane squeezed in between two huge concrete Soviet habitation blocks. We were going to meet exiled members of Azerbaijan’s shrinking

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What Wallonia did for us

As the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union was about to be signed by the member states, the whole process was stopped by the French-speaking Belgian region of Wallonia. The region and its president both faced serious backlash, but did they really deserve it? Or did some good actually

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Interview with H.E. Mr Harri Tiido, Estonian Ambassador to Poland

Harri Tiido, Estonian ambassador to Poland, former ambassador of Estonia to NATO, statesman and journalist, visited Natolin on the 17th of February to brief the students on the many challenges of the Baltic region. He agreed to sit with the Natolin blog’s Simone Benazzo and Valentin Luntumbue to talk about NATO, Russia and Estonian politics.

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