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Announcements:
- I am delighted to start the 2024 year with the publication of my new book (in Ukrainian): Post-Radianska Liudyna ta Yiyi Doba. This publication would not be possible without the support of the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna), Kennan Institute/Wilson Center, and Kyiv-based Publishing House “Laurus”.
- It was a pleasure to make a report and to participate in the discussion on “Ukraine’s Development and De-oligarchization Dilemma” at Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute on January 23, 2024.
- There were very interesting reports on Ukraine’s patronal politics made by co-authors and editors during the presentation of the book “The Russia-Ukraine War, Volumes 1-2” (ed. B. Magyar and B. Madlovics, CEU Press, 2023) at Petrach Program on Ukraine, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian research, George Washington University (January 25,2024).
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Recent academic reports and publications:
- It was an honor to deliver a lecture on “Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022)” (video and event description are in English) and have discussion with colleagues at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) on November 21, 2023.
- It was a great experience to participate in the artistic seminar “Kaleidoscope of (Hi)Stories” at the Albertnum in Dresden — a seminar, where artists and philosophers discussed long- and short-term processes in Ukrainian culture.
- I am happy to see my paper (in Ukr.) “Nimec’ki klasyky na Shodi Jevropy. Vyvchennja nimec’koi’ klasychnoi’ filosofii’ u pizn’omu SRSR i postradjans’kyh Bilorusi, Rosii’ ta Ukrai’ni” was published at Kοινὴ. The Almanac of Philosophical Essays on November 15, 2023. The Russian version of same essay — Nemeckie klassiki na Vostoke Evropy. Izuchenie nemeckoj klassicheskoj filosofii v pozdnem SSSR i postsovetskih Belarusi, Rossii i Ukraine — was published a week later in the same journal.
- I am happy to see my paper “Elections in Wartime Ukraine Would Test Ukraine’s Legal-Political Flexibility” was published at Kennan Cable on November 20, 2023.
- My chapter on “War, De-oligarchization, and the Possibility of Anti-Patronal Transformation in Ukraine” that was published in the book edited by Balint Madlovics and Balint Magyar “Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War” (Vol. 1, Budapest: CEU Press, 2023) on October 15, 2023.
- My article “The End of a Great Era: Post-Soviet Transformation in a Historical Perspective” was published in the 1st(5) issue of the Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società Journal in 2023. The Ukrainian version of this article is published in the Kοινὴ Almanac.
- I was a pleasure to deliver a mini-course in “Ukraine and Eastern Europe in Post-Soviet Period: Democratization, Nationalization, Autocratization (1991-2021)” at the Greifswald Ukrainicum in August 2023.
- My article “Political creativity and its democratic and autocratic outcomes: The case of the post-Soviet period, 1989–2022” was published in the 1st issue of the Ideology and Politics Journal in 2023.
- I am happy to announce that our book “Philosophy Unchained” dedicated to the development of philosophy after the fall of the USSR was published by ibidem Verlag and Columbia University Press.
- My article “Requiem for post-Soviet” was published at Satori.Lv (in Latvian; the Italian translation is published at il Mondo Economico).
- I delivered the report “Peace, Freedom, and New Militarism in Europe” at the international conference, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of SciencesPrague, May 10-14, 2023
- I delivered the report on “The variety of political creativity (four post-Soviet country cases)”, international workshop, University of Oslo, Oslo, April 28-29, 2023
- I delivered the report on “The political systems of post-Soviet de facto states, 1991-2023”, methodological seminar, Europa Universität Viadrina/DGO, Berlin, March 23, 2023
- I participated in and delivered the report on militarized politics in Europe at the seminar “The War One Year on: the Unwanted Game-Changer”, ISPI/Chatham House/IFRI, Milan, February 9, 2023
- The video of my report on the Life of Freedom in Eastern Europe after 1989 (in Italian) was published by the Biennale democrazia – Torino on March 24, 2023.
- My assessment of the war’s one-year results was published in English and Italian, on February 21, 2023.
- I am thankful for the invitation by CEU Winterschool to participate in a discussion on the contemporary role of liberalism with Prof. Karolina Wigura (Kultura Liberalna/Freie University Berlin/ University of Warsaw), Prof. Michael Ignatieff (CEU) and Ivars Ijabs (Member of the European Parliament, Riga University) on January 27, 2023, in Budapest.
- I am grateful to Prof. Aude Merlin and Dr. Coline Maestracci for the invitation to deliver a report on Democracy in Ukraine in 1991-2022 . The discussion took place on January 25, 2023, at Centre d’étude de la vie politique (Cevipol), Université libre de Bruxelles.
- It was a pleasure and honor to participate in the conference “Reflecting on peace in Ukraine: Long Term Narratives, Wars of Disinformation, Peace Diplomacy and Peace Building” organized by Coimbra Group Universitaire Foundation and Pavia University in Brussels on January 23-24, 2023. My report was dedicated to the topic of “DISINFORMATION AND THE NARRATIVES THAT CONDITION THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR“.
- My analytical paper “Ukraine: After Winter, Spring?” was published in The World in 2023: The Calm After the Storms… Really? Milan: ISPI, 2022, 6-10.
- My analytical paper “The Militarist Remapping of Europe and Northern Eurasia” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on November 3, 2022.
- My analytical paper “The War Has Helped Ukraine Rein in the Oligarchs” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on November 15, 2022.
- My research on the constitutional process in pre-war Ukraine was published as “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2021”. Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert, Richard (Eds). The 2021 International Review of Constitutional Reform. Austin: University of Texas, 2022, 233–236.
- My research of the ongoing work was published as “Gli esiti dei primi sei mesi della guerra russo-ucraina: aspetti militari e di politica interna”. Boccalatte, Luciano, Borgna, Paolo, e Marchis, Riccardo (a cura di). Il disegno neoimperiale della Russia di Putin e le sue guerre. Materiali per opporsi e costruire la pace. Torino: Edizioni SEB27, 2022, 28–34.
- I delivered my report on the narratives around the Russian-Ukrainian War at the Athens Forum on Information disorder during a war infodemic, September 21-23, 2022.
- The article “Towards an Ontology of the Caesura. Reflections on the Russian-Ukrainian war” was published in Kοινὴ. The Almanac of Philosophical Essays on August 28, 2022.
- The article On the Post-Post-Soviet Era (in Russian) was published in Obshchaia Tetrad’ 2022/3.
- My short column on Europe’s Exhaustion was published on the site of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
- A new issue of the Ideology and Politics Journal dedicated to the fate of philosophy after the USSR dissolution was published on May 14, 2022.
- My article on the Soviet philosophical condition was published in the Ideology and Politics Journal on May 14, 2022.
- My lecture “The Development of Post-Soviet Ukrainian Statehood, 1991-2022” (March 29, 2022) at the Tallinna Ülikool I Tallinn University was published online on April 22, 2022.
Recent non-academic publications and interviews:
- My study “Local “Elections” in the Occupied Ukrainian Territories” was published on Kennan Focus Ukraine (September 18, 2023).
- It was a great experience to talk to scholars and politicians of Croatia at the Forum of the Croatian Academy of Political Studies. I was thankful and humbled to be invited there as a keynote speaker.
- It was an honor to moderate a panel on the Fate of Democracy in Europe (4′-85′) at the Nemtsov Forum in Berlin on October 13, 2023.
- I was honored to give a keynote speech “Future perspectives on security and democracy in Eurasia” at the graduate inauguration ceremony of the new generation of the MA in Political Science at the MIREES Program of Bologna University.
- My analysis of “Local “Elections” in the Occupied Ukrainian Territories” was published at Focus Ukraine on
- My analysis of “Ukraine and the Rise of the Middle Powers” was published at Focus Ukraine on July 23, 2023.
- My analysis of “The Paradox of De-oligarchization” was published at Focus Ukraine on
- My analysis of “Russia’s Place in the Emerging World” was published at Russia File on May 4, 2023.
- My analysis of “The Constitutional Process in Wartime Ukraine” was published at Focus Ukraine on
- My analysis of “Ukraine’s Historical Moment” was published at Focus Ukraine on February 21, 2023.
- Video of my interview with Marina Skorikova on the World Apart in 90 sec before the Nuclear War (in Russian) was published at Sapere Aude on February 26, 2023.
- My article “Political Will or Procedure? Assessing Ukraine’s EU Membership Goals in 2023” was published at Focus Ukraine on February 13, 2023.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s recent anticorruption wave was published at Focus Ukraine.
- My analysis of Zelensky’s attempt to start negotiations on EU membership yet in 2023 was published at Focus Ukraine.
- My short remarks on current Ukraine’s path to the EU can be seen at a discussion “The War One Year on: the Unwanted Game-Changer” organized by the ISPI center in Milan on February 9, 2023.
- It was an honor to speak on the Future of the Europe’s Idea (8:06:50-8:19:00) at the International Symposium at the Vitautas Magnus University (Kaunas, 25 November 2022).
- Our conversation with Sergei Medvedev on the ontology of today’s processes was published on Radio Svoboda on September 18, 2022.
- My column on the Russian referenda in Southern Ukraine was published as “Referendum as Violence and Humiliation in Southeastern Ukraine”, Kennan Focus Ukraine, September 29, 2022.
- My column on the finished post-Soviet period was published as “In Memoriam Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich, Fathers of the Age of Fragility”, Kennan Focus Ukraine, September 6, 2022.
- Our conversation with Sergei Medvedev on the ontology of today’s processes was published on Radio Svoboda on September 18, 2022.
- My policy brief “The War and the Future of Ukraine’s Oligarchy” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on August 3, 2022.
- My policy brief “The Kremlin’s Plans to Annex Southeastern Ukraine Go into Effect” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on July 26, 2022.
- My policy brief “Ukraine’s Wartime Politics Takes a New Turn” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on July 19, 2022.
- My policy brief “Ukraine, EU Member Candidate” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on June 28, 2022.
- My policy brief “The Three Ages of Zelensky’s Presidency” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine on June 9, 2022.
- The Europe.Live has published the conversation of Egor Chizhov and myslef on the New World We Live In (in Russian) on June 11, 2022.
- Iliya Kusa’s and mine analysis on Ukrainian – Russian negotiations so far was published at Kennan Focus Ukraine (in English) and ISPI (in Italian), on April 14, 2022.
- My analysis of Zelensky’s and Putin’s personal factors in the Russian – Ukrainian war was published on April 13, 2022.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s EU Membership perspective is published at ISPI in Milan on April 11, 2022.
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