Alyona Pavlenko

Journalist, International Desk Staff writer

Covers Kazakhstan and political and economic developments in Azerbaijan, with a focus on geopolitics, diplomacy, macroeconomics and energy policy.

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What I cover

Covers events in Kazakhstan as well as political and socio-economic developments in Azerbaijan, including geopolitics, international relations and diplomacy, macroeconomics, and energy policy. Writes news, analysis and features, conducts interviews, and reports from international and industry events.

Alyona Pavlenko is a staff journalist on the international desk of Trend News Agency. She covers Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan’s political and economic agenda, specializing in geopolitics, international relations and diplomacy, macroeconomics, and energy policy.

She has covered major international events, including the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29), the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), and the World Urban Forum (WUF13).

She graduated from the Baku branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in Russian Philology. She has more than five years of media experience, three of them on the international desk, and works in Russian and English.