Focusing on extremism won’t counter far-Right violence

(openDemocracy) Far-Right violence is on the rise in Europe. In fact, far-Right terror is one of the most important rising threats in the West, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace,…

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How Maidan Revolutions Reproduce and Intensify the Post-Soviet Crisis of Political Representation

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Revolutions have been plentiful in post-Soviet countries, but unlike classic revolutionary examples, they have been remarkably consistent in failing to establish a more stable political order…

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Ishchenko: Belarus’s mono-industrial town setup brings together the problems of the community and the workshop

(Jacobin) Since Belarus’s disputed election, both President Alexander Lukashenko and the liberal opposition have recognized the importance of strike actions in deciding what happens next. But while there have been…

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Insufficiently diverse: The problem of nonviolent leverage and radicalization of Ukraine’s Maidan uprising, 2013–2014

(Journal of Eurasian Studies) Abstract: The article explains the violent radicalization of the initially peaceful Maidan uprising in January 2014 as the result of failure to build efficient leverage against Viktor Yanukovych…

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Exclusiveness of civic nationalism: Euromaidan eventful nationalism in Ukraine

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: Based on a case study of Euromaidan Ukrainian nationalism, we argue that civic nationalism may derive more from a commitment to a particular political event than from a set…

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Ishchenko: The positive side of Zelensky is that he has offset the political contradictions between pro-Russian and pro-Europe

(FP) Ukraine—“Things here often start with great hopes and end in great disappointments. But this time, I get the impression things could change,” said Nikolai Savitsky, a 54-year-old businessman, outside a…

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