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    • Ukraine Experts
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  • The Russia Program at GW (IERES)

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  • The Evolving Concerns of Russians after the Invasion | New Voices on Eurasia with Sasha de Vogel (March 9)

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  • The Putin-Xi Summit: What's New In Their Joint Communique ? February 23, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman speaks with Russian China experts Vita Spivak and Alexander Gabuev about the February meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and what it may tell us about where the Russian-Chinese relationship is headed.
  • Exploring the Russian Courts' Ruling to Liquidate the Memorial Society January 28, 2022
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with scholars Kelly Smith and Benjamin Nathans about the history, achievements, and impending shutdown of the Memorial Society, Russia's oldest and most venerable civic organization, and what its imminent liquidation portends for the Russian civil society.
  • Russia's 2021 census and the Kremlin's nationalities policy [Lipman Series 2021] December 9, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with social scientist Andrey Shcherbak about the quality of the data collected in the recent population census and the goals of Vladimir Putin's government's nationalities policy
  • Active citizens of any kind are under threat [Lipman Series 2021] November 5, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Alexander Verkhovsky about the Kremlin's ever expanding toolkit against political and civic activists, journalists, and other dissidents.
  • Russia's Legislative Elections followup [Lipman Series 2021] October 4, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Tanya Lokot and Nikolay Petrov about the results of Russia’s legislative elections and about what comes next.
  • Why Is the Kremlin Nervous? [Lipman Series 2021] September 14, 2021
    In this week’s PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Ben Noble and Nikolay Petrov about Russia’s September 17-19 legislative elections, repressive measures against electoral challengers, and whether to expect anything other than preordained results.
  • Vaccine Hesitancy in Russia, France, and the United States [Lipman Series 2021] August 31, 2021
    In this week's PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Denis Volkov, Naira Davlashyan, and Peter Slevin about why COVID-19 vaccination rates are still so low across the globe, comparing vaccine hesitant constituencies across Russia, France, and the United States.  
  • Is Russia Becoming More Soviet? [Lipman Series 2021] July 26, 2021
      In a new PONARS Eurasia Podcast episode, Maria Lipman chats with Maxim Trudolyubov about the current tightening of the Russian political sphere, asking whether or not it’s helpful to draw comparisons to the late Soviet period.
  • The Evolution of Russia's Political Regime [Lipman Series 2021] June 21, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Grigory Golosov and Henry Hale about the evolution of Russia's political regime, and what to expect in the lead-up to September's Duma elections.
  • Volodymyr Zelensky: Year Two [Lipman Series 2021] May 24, 2021
    In this week's episode of the PONARS Eurasia Podcast, Maria Lipman chats with Sergiy Kudelia and Georgiy Kasianov about Ukrainian President Zelensky's second year in office, and how he has handled the political turbulence of the past year.

Ukraine Experts

Experts on Ukraine Available for Commentary

Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University, (619) 594-0190, alexseev@sdsu.edu
– Ukrainian society and public opinion, Donbas, Russian domestic and foreign policy, great power and Cold War rivalry, Minsk accords, OSCE, nationalism, media and public opinion

Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College, (909) 607-1491, happel@cmc.edu
– NATO and EU enlargement, Ukraine’s Accession to the EU, Russia’s near abroad

Richard Arnold, Muskingum University, (740) 826-8108, rarnold@muskingum.edu
– Ukrainian and Russian Cossacks

Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), (+4722) 54 77 39, pavel@prio.org
– Russian military strategy

Tymofii Brik, Kyiv School of Economics, tbrik@kse.org.ua
– Ethnopolitical conflicts, post-Communist transformations, post-Soviet institutions, elites and identities, media development, migration, sovereignty, governance

Petro Burkovskyi, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation (DIF), (+380) 67 295 0398, burkovskyi@dif.org.ua
– History, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional Law, Security Policy, Energy Policy, International Relations, Propaganda

Keith Darden, American University, (202) 885-5950, keith.darden@gmail.com
– Nationalism, state-building, politics of Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia

Volodymyr Dubovyk, Mechnikov National University, Odessa, (+380) 482 63 3259, volodymyrdubovyk@onu.edu.ua
– Ukraine politics, regional politics, Ukraine-US Relations, Black Sea security, Ukraine-NATO, Ukraine’s geopolitical and security situation

Eugene Finkel, Johns Hopkins University, (202) 663-5600, efinkel4@jhu.edu
– Ukrainian politics, sanctions, civil war, political violence

Jordan Gans-Morse, Northwestern University, (847) 467-1154, jordan.gans-morse@northwestern.edu
– Rule of law and corruption in Ukraine

Ivan Gomza, Kyiv School of Economics, (+380) 96 102 5860, ivan.gomza@ukma.edu.ua
– Ukrainian politics, Ukrainian policies and civil society

Dmitry Gorenburg, Harvard University; CNA, (703) 824-2000, gorenburg@gmail.com
– Russian military strategy and foreign policy

Henry Hale, George Washington University, (202) 994-4810, hhale@gwu.edu
– Ukrainian domestic politics, Russian and Ukrainian nationalism and identity, Russian and Ukrainian public opinion, Putin, Russian politics

Olexiy Haran, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, (+380) 675 084 445, haran@ukma.kiev.ua
– Ukrainian politics, Russian-Ukrainian relations, Donbas, Ukrainian society and identity, sociological polls

Erik Herron, West Virginia University, esherron@mail.wvu.edu
– Ukrainian politics

Kristina Hook, Kennesaw State University, khook2@kennesaw.edu
– Genocide and mass atrocities, emerging technologies and disinformation, post-conflict reconstruction, war-related environmental degradation, Ukraine, Russia 

Volodymyr Ishchenko, Freie Universität Berlin, volodymyr.o.ishchenko@gmail.com
– Ukrainian politics, protests and revolutions in Ukraine, Ukrainian civil society, nationalism in Ukraine, Ukrainian far right and left, political violence, public opinion in Ukraine

Mark Kramer, Harvard University, mkramer@fas.harvard.edu
– Russian military, civil-military relations, European neutral countries and the Russia-Ukraine crisis, East European NATO countries’ policies toward Ukraine and Russia, Putin’s narratives regarding Ukraine

Sergiy Kudelia, Baylor University, (254) 710-6050, Sergiy_Kudelia@baylor.edu
– Ukrainian domestic and foreign policy, Donbas

Volodymyr Kulyk, National Academy of Science of Ukraine; Ukrainian Free University; Harvard University, (+380 44) 286-6261, v_kulyk@hotmail.com
– Language, identity, ethnicity, memory

Marlene Laruelle, George Washington, University, (202) 994-3368, laruelle@gwu.edu
– Russian nationalism, Russian public opinion, Novorossiya, Russian fighters in Donbas

Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu, Estonia, (+372) 737 5583, andrey.makarychev@ut.ee
– Russian debates on Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic-Nordic region and repercussions, EU

Stanislav Markus, University of South Carolina, (617) 771 4670, stanislav.markus@gmail.com
– Russian oligarchs, Ukrainian oligarchs, impact of sanctions, future scenarios for Ukraine

Kimberly Marten, Barnard College, Columbia University, (212) 854-5115, km2225@columbia.edu
– Russian foreign and security policy, Russia-NATO relations

Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, (+358) 9432 7750, arkady.moshes@fiia.fi
– Ukraine’s foreign policy, Russia’s policy toward Ukraine and Belarus, EU policy in the Eastern Neighborhood

Ryhor Nizhnikau, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, (+358) 9432 7753, ryhor.nizhnikau@fiia.fi
– EU Eastern Neighborhood, Russian policy in the post-Soviet space, domestic and foreign policies of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine

Mariya Omelicheva, National Defense University, m.omelicheva.civ@msc.ndu.edu
– Russia’s foreign and security policy, U.S. security assistance to Ukraine

Maria Popova, McGill University, (514) 398-7376, maria.popova@mcgill.ca
– Ukrainian domestic politics, EU and Eastern European reactions to the crisis

Ora John Reuter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (931) 312-9132, reutero@uwm.edu
– Russian domestic politics and foreign policy

Oxana Shevel, Tufts University, (617) 627-2658, oxana.shevel@tufts.edu
– Ukrainian domestic politics, Ukrainian foreign policy, Ukraine-Russia relations, Donbas conflict

Oleksandr Sushko, International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv, (+380 44) 486 12 53, irf@irf.ua
– Comparative and international political economy, Eastern Europe, Latin America, extremist and populist parties, regime change

Brian Taylor, Syracuse University, (315) 443-3713, bdtaylor@maxwell.syr.edu
– Russian domestic politics and foreign policy, Putin and Putinism

Mikhail Troitskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), (+7 49) 5 234 8492, mikhailtroitskiy@gmail.com
– Russian politics and foreign policy, US-Russia and NATO-Russia relations, conflicts in Eurasia

Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State University; Columbia University, (973) 655-4238, wishnicke@montclair.edu
– Ukraine and Russia-China relations, China’s reaction to the Russia and Ukraine conflict

Yuri Zhukov, University of Michigan, zhukov@umich.edu
– Armed conflict, political violence, insurgency, Russian military strategy


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