Dimitar Bechev is Research Fellow at the Centre for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council as well as at the Istanbul-based Sharq Forum. Dr. Bechev is the author of Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe (Yale, 2017) as well as of multiple publications on Russia, Turkey and the Balkans. He holds a D.Phil degree from Oxford.