Kadri Liik is an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n journalist and political analyst. Her research is mainly focused on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the

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. She is graduated from the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

in journalism, and

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in diplomacy. In 1990s she worked as a Moscow correspondent for Estonian newspapers (like ''

Postimees is an Estonian daily newspaper established on 5 June 1857, by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. In 1891, it became the first daily newspaper in Estonia. Its current editor-in-chief is Priit Hõbemägi. The paper has approximately 250 employees. ''P ...

'') and also for news agency

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. Since 2004 she was the chief editor of the magazine Diplomaatia. In 2000s she was also the host of current affairs talkshow "Välismääraja", broadcast on

Radio Kuku Radio Kuku (, also called ''Kuku-raadio'') is an Estonian radio station. It was the first politically independent privately owned radio station in post- occupation Estonia, established in 1992 by a media businessman and later politician Rein La ...

. 2006-2011 she was the director of the International Centre for Defence Studies in Estonia. Since 2012, she is working as a senior policy fellow at the

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