Phaedra Claeys (°1992) is a doctoral student at Ghent University’s department of Languages and Cultures, section Eastern European Languages and Cultures, where she is affiliated to the research group GCEES. She obtained a master’s degree in Eastern European Languages and Cultures (Russian and Slovene) from Ghent University (2013-2014) and also holds a master’s degree in French (2015-2016). As of October 2016, she has been working on a PhD project on the interwar Russian émigré newsmagazine ‘Illustrated Russia’.