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My name is Biliana Lily and I'm a cyber security and disinformation researcher with a focus on Russia's behavior in that space at the Rand Corporation.

I was born and raised in Bulgaria, which is in Eastern Europe. It's a post-communist country, one of the poorest in Europe, and a very pro-Russian country as well.

I thought initially that I wanted to focus on international relations, and at the age of 19 I left my country in order to study in Germany in

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