Current Research Areas
The Beings: Pluralist Ontology in Defence of Beings as They Are
I start a new project in defence of all forms, ways and modi Beings manifest themselves. Pluralist ontology will be my guiding topic of philosophical investigations in the coming years:
1) books, articles and papers:
- My essay “The Quest for Kοινὴ: Overcoming the Shibboleth” was published in Kοινὴ. The Almanac of Philosophical Essays in English, Russian, and Ukrainian.
- Two of my articles on Shestov’s and Heidegger’s Ontotheology (in Russian and Ukrainian) is published in February 2018 / October 2017.
2) reports and reviews:
- My report “Researching Subculture through the Lens of Actor-Networking Theory“, at the international interdisciplinary conference “Studying Subculture” (panel “Problems of choosing a research path in studying a subculture“) was published on February 22, 2020.
Theory and Analysis of Ideology
I study ideology from the political epistemological and political philosophy’s point of view. In the context, I describe an ideology as an anonimous instance directing thinking, speaking and feeling of humans in contemporary societies. As a result of ongoing research I tested my ideas through publications and public lectures:
1) books and articles:
- On March 2, 2022, our book — Minakov. M. (ed.). Inventing Majorities. Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies. Suttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2022 — was published.
- My essay “The Ideological Creativity. A Conceptual Introduction” (in Russian) was published at the Kοινὴ. The Almanac of Philosophical Essays, June 15, 2021.
- I am happy to announce that a new issue (#1 2021) of the Ideology and Politics Journal dedicated to Universalism in a Time of Sovereigntism was published on May 1, 2021:
- introduction to the issue can be read HERE
- my article “The Soviereigntist Turn: Sovereignty as a Contested Concept Again” was published in the issue
- My blog on the COVID geopolitical imagery was published on the Institute for European Studies EUV site, December 5, 2020.
- My report on Biopolitical Trilemma and its Impact on Global Political Development (in Russian) is published on EEDialogue, May 20, 2020.
- Alexander Etkind’s and mine Intro to Post-Soviet Ideologies (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020) can be read here: Post-Soviet Ideological Creativity.
- Etkind A., Minakov M. (eds) Post-Soviet Ideologies, Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020.
- Alexander Etkind’s and my conceptual introduction into post-Soviet transit and demodernization is published in the Ideology and Politics Journal (#1(9) 2018), November 2018.
- Stefano Bianchini’s and my joint article on “State-building Politics after the Yugoslav and Soviet Collapse: The Western Balkans and Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective. An Introduction” is published at the Southeastern Europe Journal (3(42), 2018, pp. 291-304).
- The new issue of Southeastern Europe Journal dedicated to ‘State-Building Politics after the Yugoslav and Soviet Collapse – The Western Balkans and Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective’ is published. Prof. Stefano Bianchini and I were co-editors of this issue.
- The book Demodernization. A Future in The Past (ibidem Verlag/Columbia University Press) edited by Prof. Yakov Rabkin and myself is finally out in August 2018.
- A book ‘Literature and Ideology‘ (in Ukr:Література та ідеологія: колективна монографія/[наук. ред. та упоряд. Моренець ВП]; Нац. ун-т” Києво-Могилянська академія”.-Київ:[НаУКМА], 2017.-482 с.) with my two chapters– “Subjection and Thought. Philosophy and ideology in USSR” and “The Choice of 1991. Assessment of democracy, independence and and Soviet legacy by Ukrainians in times of revolt and war“—is finally published.
- My discussion paper “(Not Only a) Russian Revolution: Centennial Meditations” is published in the Kennan Focus Ukraine, 7 November 2017.
- an article ‘Utopian Images of the West and Russia Among Supporters and Opponents of the Euromaidan‘ is published in a special Maidan issue of peer-review journal ‘Russian Law and Politics’ (53:3, 68-85).
- A discussion article “Paradise Lost. Ukraine in 1991-2012“ is published in Studi Slavistici, December 2015.
- A book by Yevhen Magda and Tetyana Vodotyka ‘Ihry vidobrazhen. Yakoyu bachyt Ukrainu svit?’ with my introduction is published: Anatomy of Imagination. Philosophical Inroduction, May 2016.
- The New Ukrainian Exceptionalism (in co-authorship with Matthew Rojansky), Yale Global, 23.06.2015.
2) reports, interviews and reviews:
- I delivered the report “Re-defining the Russian People: Heideggerian Philosophy and Contemporary Russia’s Conservative Turn” at the International Conference “Populism and Anti-liberalism: Practices, Challenges and Counteractions”, Malaga University, June 24, 2021.
- I delivered a report on the Transitions of the post-Soviet Transition Concept at the ASN 2021 Convention, May 8, 2021.
- I delivered the report “National Security and Private Ownership on Channels of Communication: US and European Contexts” at the 2021 Jean Monnet European Cybersecurity Days in Ukraine, Odesa Law Academy, March 26, 2021.
- My interview based on the assessment of political and economic outcomes of the post-Soviet transit was published in Sapere Aude Podcast on October 6, 2021.
- I made a report on “Complexity of Periphery: Typology of States in New Eastern Europe” at the panel “Variants of Post-Soviet Peripheries, 10th ICCEES World Congress, on 8 August 2021.
- A discussion of our book “From ‘the Ukraine’ to Ukraine. A Contemporary History, 1991-2021” with Andrii Portnow and Timm Beichelt was published on the website of the Institute for European Studdies, Europa Universitaet Viadrina, on 22 June 2021.
- My lecture on the collective memory and ideological monopoly in Ukraine (in Ukrainian) was published on Sturespublika on February 2, 2022.
- My assessment of CoviD-19 and related crises impact on the political development of contemporary polities was published in May – June 2020 on Kennan Focus Ukraine (in English), European Dialogue (in Russian), and VoxUkraine (in Ukrainian).
- My report Pandemics and Political Regimes (in Russian) at the PALE International Conference was published on May 23, 2020.
- It was an honor to give an introductory lecture on “The Post-Soviet States from Commonwealth/Sodruzhestvo to Commonwealth/Sovrazhestvo” to start the Tenth International Social Science Summer School “War and Society: Making and Experiencing War (and Peace) in 19th-21st-century Eastern / Central Europe and Eurasia” in Kherson, July 2019.
- Report on researching post-Soviet ideological creativity delivered at the workshop “Modernization and social mobilization in post-Soviet countries“, Kyiv Politechnical Institute, Kyiv, 27 February 2019.
- I reported on Universalism and Populism at the 4th Berlin Forum “In Search of Lost Universalism” November 2018.
- I reported on Soviet roots of post-Soviet regional clans at the BASEES conference “Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956” at Uppsala University, October 12-15, 2018.
- I reported on Ideological Function of Ukranian Institute of National Memory after Euromaidan (in German) at the Interdisziplinärer Workshop „Umstrittene Erinnerungsorte in der Ukraine im Spiegel der deutschen, polnischen, ukrainischen und russischen Literatur und Geschichtsschreibung“, 14.-16. Juni 2018, Frankfurt/Oder.
- My blog on The Authoritarian Belt in Europe’s East is published in the Kennan Focus Ukraine, May 15, 2018.
- The text of my public lecture on global social revolutions is published by Studrespublica team, May 3, 2018.
- I reported on “Historical argumentation and political myths among separatist supporters living in South-Eastern Ukraine (2014–16)” at the ‘Temporality and Statehood’ Workshop organized by German Historical Institute, Warsaw, 20-21 March 2018.My report on “Photosophy: Where Photography meets Philosophy” (report is in Ukrainian; excript of book in English is here) was delivered on 16 December 2017.
- I made a report on “Radical Periphery. De Facto States in World-System Analysis” at Workshop “European Peripheries: Transdiscplinary perspectives”, European-University Viadrina, 1 December 2017.
- On 8 November 2018 I reported on “Eudcation and Democracy in post-Soviet Ukraine” at the International Conference “Better Education, More Democracy”, DRA, Berlin, 8 November 2017.
- On 6 November 2018 I delivered report on “Mutual Enforcement of Populism and Authoritarianism in Easter Europe” at the International Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni “Populism under a Spotlight”, WWICS and ZOiS, Berlin, 5-8 November 2017.
- An interview on Ukrainian Constitution as Political and Imaginary document, 28 June 2017.
- An interview on contemporary art consumption for Art Chernozem, 10 April 2017.
- An interview on ideological monopoly in post-Maidan Ukraine for Polonews, 11 March 2017.
- A response to Munich Security Conference – 2017 questionair published at Carnegie EU: What is Going on with the Liberal Order?, 18 February 2017.
- Interview on Hromadske Radio on The Intellectual Legacy of Zygmund Baumann, January 10, 2017.
- Interview re research of Civic Values and Practicies of Ukrainians, Moldovans and Belarussians (in Eng), Hromadske.TV, January 7, 2017.
- Interview re research of Civic Values and Practicies of Ukrainians, Moldovans and Belarussians (in Ukr), Hromadske.TV, January 7, 2017.
- Discussion on Ukraine’s foreign policy in 2017 (in Ukr.)
- An interview on Civic literacy of Ukrainians and Crimean Identities Change (in Rus.) was published at Radio Liberty/Krym.Realii site, 3 January 2017.
- An interview on Dehumanization in Network Society (in Russian), Korydor, 27 December 2016.
- A discussion on Being, Language and Misprints (based on my Dictionary of Misprints book) took place at the Sherekh Festival on December 18, 2016.
- Hard.Talk interview on State of Devils and Smart Authoritariansism (in Russian), 112 TV Channel, 27.09.2016.
- I reported on Epistemological Significance of Collective Memory, Philosophical Workshop, Universita degli studi di Torino, June 7-9, 2017.
- My interview with Tatyana Shchyttsova on Ontology and Culture of War was published at Topos Journal, June 2017.
- I gave a lecture on the Post-Soviet Experiments at the Bologna University, The international Master of Arts MIREES program on 12 February 2016.
- a talk on Future and Philosophical Approaches to It at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, 2 December 2015.
- a public lecture on the Visual and Ideology (video in Russian), Patiche Project, November 24, 2015.
- report on The Visual and Ideology at the Visual Problems Lecture Series, Harms Caffee, Kiev, at 19:00 on November 24.11.2015.
Development of Post-Soviet Nations, studies on the post-Soviet politics
1) articles and policy papers:
- My essay on 30 years of the post-Soviet nomade “La caduta dell’URSS: 30 anni di transizione” was published in Italian at La Nuova Europa, December 2021 – January 2022.
- My study of 100 years of Ukraine’s political system was published in Spanish as “El centenario del sistema político Ucraniano: Historia, estructura y dinámica” in: Brinkmann, Sören, Rodríguez Rodríguez, Angélica, and Rouvinski, Vladimir (eds.). (2022). Entre Este y Oeste. Estado, nación y conflicto en la Ucrania contemporánea. Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 73–126.
- Our discussion with Alexander Etkind “We have no postcolonial theory as such, but only different imperial experiences” was published at eSamizdat (2021 XIV, pp. 185-190) on December 31, 2021.
- My article “UNIVERSAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BELARUSSIAN PROTEST — 2020 AND OF OTHER POST-SOVIET PROTEST MOVEMENTS” was published in the TOPOS Journal of Philosophy on December 28, 2021.
- My chapter “El centenario del sistema político ucraniano: historia, estructura y dinámica” was published in the book: Brinkmann, S.; Rodríguez Rodríguez, A. y Rouvinski, V. (2021). Entre Este y Oeste. Estado, nación y conflicto en la Ucrania contemporánea. Colombia: Universidad Icesi y Tirant lo Blanch. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18046/EUI/tirant.2021.3
- Text of my report on the achievements of post-Soviet democracy and autocracy was published at Sapere Aude, 28 October 2021.
- My article “Post-Soviet Sovereignty and Ukraine’s Political Development” was published in Ukraine Analytica journal, October 2021.
- I presented the chapter on Democracy in Ukraine (1991-2021) (from the book “From ‘The Ukraine’ to Ukraine. A Contemporary History, 1991-2021“) at UkrLifeTv, March 2, 2021.
- My chapter “Democratisation and Europeanisation in 21st Century Ukraine” is published in the Emerson, M., Cenușă, D., Kovziridze, T. & Movchan, V. (eds.), The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe, Brussels: CEPS; Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021: 83-120.
- I made a report on the Belarusian Protest from a Comparative Perspective (in Italian) at the Padova University seminar “La Russia contemporanea. Non solo Russia”, December 7, 2020. The report was later published in Italian (Centro Einaudi/Mondo Economico) and English (Osservatorio su “NUOVI AUTORITARISMI E DEMOCRAZIE”) in December 2020.
- My article “OTHERING FROM WITHIN. THE IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE IN 2015–2018” was published in the Ideology and Politics Journal, October 19, 2020.
- My report at the round table on “Protest Culture in Ukraine and Belarus: Differences and Commonalities” was published on the Wilson Center website, October 8, 2020.
- My analysis of the Change in Eastern Europe’s Authoritarian Belt is published at the Focus Ukraine, October 6, 2020.
- A chapter on “Shades of Periphery: A Typology of States in New Eastern Europe” was published in a book “Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space” (Nicolas Hayoz, Jens Herlth & Julia Richers·eds., Berlin, Peter Lang, 2020), August 20, 2020.
- My new research on Ukraine’s Europeanization and Democratization in the 21st century was published by CEPS, June 9, 2020.
- My article on “Hundred years of the Ukrainian political system” (in Russian: Stoletiie ukrainskoi politicheskoi sistemy) is published at Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, #129 in March 2020.
- My article “POST-SOVIET EASTERN EUROPE. ACHIEVEMENTS IN POST-SOVIET DEVELOPMENT IN SIX EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS, 1991–2020” was published at the IPJ #3(14), 2019.
- My book review “PLURALIST NOSTALGIES FOR MULTIPLE PERESTROIKAS. BOOK REVIEW: Li Bennich-Björkman, Sergiy Kurbatov (Eds.) When the Future Came. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks” was published at the IPJ #3(14), 2019.
- Yana Prymachenko and I published an intro “THE VELVET REVOLUTIONS OF 1989: A LASTING ‘END OF HISTORY’?” for the new IPJ issue (#3(14) 2019), The Freedom and Subjection in the Long 1989 Year. Societies in Eastern and Southern Europe in 1989/91.
- My research “TRANSFORMATION OF THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY. THE IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF THE UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL MEMORY IN 2014-2017” (in German) is published at “PORÓWNANIA” 1 (24), 2019. Vol. XXIV, P. 27-39.
- My study of Ukraine’s democracy development (1991-2019) (in Ukr.) was published at the Strategic Group Sofia, 3 October 2019.
- My philosophic introduction “Between Fire and Fire. From Flash to Flash of the Ukrainian Revolutions (in Eng., RUs. and Ukr)” to the “Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now” (Semperdepot, Vienna, 20 September – 8 October 2019) exhibition is published in the exhibition album.
- My new article on Ukrainians assessment of the Choice 1991 (in Russian) was published in Форум новейшей восточноевропейской истории и культуры, August 2019.
- Orysia Bila and I have finished the work on the Ukraina Moderna Journal special issue #26 dedicated to contemporary Ukraine’s philosophy. The issue “Philosophy Case in contemporary Ukraine” was published in August 2019 due to the support of Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak and Prof. Gelinada Grinchenko.
- The issue opens with an introductory article on “The Cause of Philosophy in Contemporary Ukraine: Questions and Answers” (in Ukrainian) by Orysia Bila and myself.
- My interviews with Prof. Anatoliy Yermolenko, Prof. Volodymyr Turchynovskyi, Dr. Volodymyr Fadeev, Dr. Vyacheslav Tysba, Dr. Oleksiy Vedrov and Dr. Candidate Ivan Ivashchenko organized in a joint material called “Philosophy in Ukraine: in the Permanent Quest for Itself“.
- My essay “Modernity and Peace. The Lessons of Kant’s Applied Enlightenment” (in Ukrainian) can be read here as well.
- Yurii Saveliev published review on my “Development and Dystopia”, March 2019.
- A chapter on the Soviet roots of Ukrainian regional clans was published in the book “Stubborn Structures. Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes” edited by Balint Magyar, Budapest: CEU Press, March 2019.
- My analysis “Presidential Elections in Ukraine: Candidates and Chances” was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, February 13, 2019.
- A review of my book “Development and Dystopia” by Maryna Rabinovych was published at the Journal of Soviet- and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.
- Tatiana Shchyttsova and my conceptual introduction into Logos and Pathos. Humanities in the Conditions of War is published in the common issue of Ideology and Politics Journal (#3(11) 2018) and Topos Journal (#2, 2018), December 2018.
- A book “Critical Years. Imporatnt pages of Ukrianian Revolution” (in Russian) with my introduction was published by the Laurus Publishers in Kiev, November 2018.
- Russian-language version of my article on Novorossian Myth in Transnational Perspective is published at the Forum noveishei vostochnoyevropeiskoi istorii i kultury, October 2018.
- Our article, written together with Ghia Nodia and Denis Cenusa, was published as a chapter “Towards becoming European-style Democracies” in a book: Emerson M. et al. (eds). “The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe” (London: Rowman and Littlefeld, 2018) pp. 9-54.
- My chapter on “Civil Society and the Power Elites after the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Competition, Cooperation, and Fusion” was published in: David Horton Smith, Alisa V. Moldavanova, and Svitlana Krasynska (eds). The Nonprofit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. Civil Society Advances and Challenges (Leiden: Brill, 2018) 174-190.
- Happy to announce that the book ‘Government–NGOs Relationship in Africa, Asia, Europe, and MENA‘ (ed. Raffaele Marchetti, Rutledge 2018) with my chapter “The Third Sector Entering The First: Cooperation and Competition of Civil Society, State and Oligarchs after Euromaidan in Ukraine” was finally published.
- My text On the Possibility of Purpetual Peace in Eastern Europe (in Rus and Eng) is published at the Carnegie.Ru, June 3, 2018.
- My book “Development and Dystopia. Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe” is published by ibidem-Verlag and Columbia State University Press in March 2018.
- An analytical paper on Ukraine Strategic Challenges is published on Kennan Focus Ukraine, 13 February 2018.
- An analytical paper on Ukraine and Intermarium project (in Italian) were published today, 13 February 2018.
- In cooperation with Matt Rojansky we wrote and published a paper: “Democracy in Ukraine: Are We There Yet?“, Kennan Cable #30:2018, 1-17 (January 30, 2018).
- New issue of Ideology and Politics Journal is published as Post-Soviet Transit between Revolution and Restoration — Issue 2 (8), 2017 last month. My introductory article can be accessed here.
- A paper on “Democracy and Its Deficits: the way of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine towards becoming European-style democracies” in co-authorship with Ghia Nodia and Denis Cenusa is published at Centre for European Policy Studies policy papers serices, December 2017.
- My paper “Between Power Vertical and Liberal Democracy. Political Regime after Euromaidan” is published at Agora Journal, November 28, 2017.
- On 13 November 2017 my paper “Big Aims for a Deal in Eastern Europe” was published in the Kennan Focus Ukraine.
- My paper ‘Reconstructing the power vertical: the authoritarian threat in Ukraine‘ was published at OpenDemocracy, June 29, 2017.
- My chapter “Novorossiya and the Transnationalism of Unrecognized Post-Soviet Nations” is published in Timm Beichelt, Susann Worschech (eds) Transnational Ukraine? Networks and Ties that Influence(d) Contemporary Ukraine, Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2017, 65-88.
- My chapter “Big Europe’s Gap: Dynamic Obstacles for Integration between European Union and Eurasian Economic Union” is published in Di Gregorio, A. and Angeli A. The Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union, Milan: Eleven International Publishing, 2017, 45-56.
- My article on parliamentary culture of post-Soviet societies is published in Krytyka (in Ukrainian), 25 January 2017.
- The new issue of Ideology and Politics Journal ‘Freedom and Militarism in Post-Soviet Societies‘ is published on December 2016; our (Isaac Webb and mine) Introduction gives a short overview of the issue.
- Theses of my report on Contemporary Euroscepticism (in Ukrainian) were published by Krytyka, 27 December 2016.
- A paper “Euromaidan, War, and the Development of Ukraine’s Political System in 2014 -2015” is published at ‘Rimlands, Buffer Zones and Great Power Rivalry: Ukraine Conference Papers’ (New York: Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University Press, 2016).
- An article “The Consolidation of Power in Ukraine: What It Means for the West” is published at Carnegie Policy Paper Series, September 20, 2016.
- A paper “Euromaidan, War, and the Development of Ukraine’s Political System in 2014 -2015” is published at ‘Rimlands, Buffer Zones and Great Power Rivalry: Ukraine Conference Papers’ (New York: Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University Press, 2016).
- An article “The Consolidation of Power in Ukraine: What It Means for the West” is published at Carnegie Policy Paper Series, September 20, 2016.
- My chapter on Russia’s Ukrainian Policy impact on Eastern European international order is published in ISPI Report on Russia, July 2016.
- an article ‘Too Soft Power: Ukrainian cultural diplomacy in Italy (in Ukr: Надто м’яка влада: результати української культурної дипломатії в Італії, 2014–2015 рр.)‘ published in Agora, #16, 2016.
- a report on ‘Creation of conflict-resolution system in the Eastern Europe’ at the 2015-2016 Jean Monnet Seminars on European Security in Ukraine, 2 April 2016 in Kiev.
- a report on “Common trends of political development in Eurasian post-Soviet countries” at the Conference ‘The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union: moving towards cooperation’ organized by DILHPS, University of Milano, on 7 March 2016.
- an overview “Post-Soviet parliamentarian drama: a view from ‘the gods’ in Kiev“, openDemocracy, February 23, 2016
- an analytical paper ‘A Decisive Turn? Risks for Ukrainian Democracy After the Euromaidan‘ is published at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, February 3, 2016.
- article “Ukraine is caught between war and reform“, OpenDemocracy, November 26, 2015.
- article on Dangers of post-Soviet Presidential Institutions (in Russian) for VoxUkraine, June 14, 2016.
- article ‘Ukraine From Revolution of Dignity to Government of Shame‘ (in English), Carnegie.EU, April 11, 2016
- article “Ukrainian constitution: reform or crisis?” (in co-authorship with Matyna Stavniichuk), open Democracy, February 16, 2016
- article of trends in Ukrainian politcs and economy in 2015 (in co-authorship with Timofei Milovanov), Liga.net, February 8, 2016
- article of EU Ukraine’s policy “Letter from Kiev“, Carnegie.EU 06.11.2015
- article “Did the Orange Revolution teach us anything?“, Politeka.net, 22.10.2015
- The unlikely return of Yulia Tymoshenko, openDemocracy, 17.06.2015
- Requiem for Maidan, openDemocracy, 27.03.2015
- article “Ukraine is caught between war and reform“, OpenDemocracy, November 26, 2015
- article on ‘Conflict in Eastern Europe: From War to Stable Peace’, Kennan Cable #11, August 28, 2015
- The New Ukrainian Exceptionalism (in co-authorship with Matthew Rojansky), Yale Global, 23.06.
- The unlikely return of Yulia Tymoshenko, openDemocracy, 17.06.
- Requiem for Maidan, openDemocracy, 27.03.
- Maidan vs War Programs and oligarchic rebirth (in Liga.net), 22.03.
- (in co-authorship with Ivan Kolodii) Ukrainian Sovereignty between Civic Activism and Oligarchic Renaissance (in Krytyka), 10.03.
2) reports, interviews and reviews:
- Here you can see a discussion of Lev Gudkov’s book on the Returnable Totalitarianism (NLO, 2022) (in Russian), February 11, 2022.
- Prof. Georgii Kasianov and I presented our approach to contemporary history on the example of post-Soviet Ukraine at the Historical webinar, on December 9, 2021.
- I delivered the report on the Thirty Years of Ukraine’s Democratization Attempts (video of the seminar can be seen HERE) at the Instytut Europy Środkowej, June 15, 2021.
- I delivered a report on “Transition of the post-Communist Transition Concept” at the INALCO International Conference “Thirty years after the disintegration of the CMEA: what lessons for Europe today?” on May 28, 2021.
- I made a report on “The Mass Protest Outcomes in the Times of Autocratization: The Belarus Case” at an International Seminar “The New Belarus: Societal Change, Regime Repression, and Western Reactions” (organized by the German Association for East European Studies (DGO) and the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)(, Berlin, 6/7 October 2021.
- It was truly an intellectual delight to participate in the Kennan Institute’s discussion with Nina Jankovich, Angelina Kariakina, and Viktor Andrusiv on Freedom of Speech and War with Propaganda in Ukraine, March 13, 2021.
- It was a pleasure participating in the seminar “European experience of peacemaking and of overcoming social traumas” (EU Delegation in Ukraine, TeamEurope Network, and Zaporizhzhia State University) with my report on “Strategic Tolerance lessons for the Divided Nations”, March 12, 2021.
- My lecture “Opportunities for a Periphery in contemporary World System” (in Russian) was published by the Studrepulic on December 21, 2020.
- My interview with Daria Tarusova on History of Government’s University Control (in Russian, Part 1 and Part 2) was published in the “Granit Nauki” Journal, December 12, 2020.
- My interview with Liudmila Nemyria on the socio-political change as a result of the COVID pandemic (in Russian) is published on UKRLIFE, December 4, 2020.
- My report on Ukraine’s local elections and constitutional crisis at the round table”Local Elections and the Future of Local Self-Governance in Ukraine” was published on November 5, 2020.
- My report at the round table on “Protest Culture in Ukraine and Belarus: Differences and Commonalities” was published on the Wilson Center website, October 8, 2020.
- My interview on Global Core and post-Soviet Periphery to Liudmila Nemyria (Ukrlife) was published on September 4, 2020.
- My interview on Photography’s role is scholarly work (also republished here) was published by Odessa Association of Photography, July 31, 2020.
- My interview on Political trends and forecasts for Eastern Europe in 2020ies with Artem Filatov (in Russian) was published as a podcast, July 8, 2020.
- My interview on the pre-revolutionary situation in Belarus is published on the Belarussian service of Svoboda Radio web-site (in Belarussian and English), June 29, 2020.
- Video of the debate with sociologists Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and Gennaiy Korshunov on Social and Political Sciences Understanding of the Processes in post-Soviet Societies (within the frameworks of the festival of intellectual books ‘Pradmova’) was published on October 18, 2020.
- My lecture on Biopolitical opportunities for contemporary states (in Russian) was published at European Liberal Arts Colleagues in Belarus, April 27, 2020.
- I delivered my report on the Impact of post-Soviet secessionism on irredentists in Ukraine’s Donbas, 2014-19, at the URIS alumni conference at Basel University, 29-31 January 2020. Thank you colleagues for a great discussion!
- It was a great discussion at the Basel university’s Institute for European Studies during my report on “Democracy and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1989–2019” at the Basel University seminar on Ringvorlesung «Polen in Europa – Europa in Polen», 11 December 2019.
- I delivered a lecture on post-Soviet de facto states at the Geneva University, December 5, 2019.
- I was honored to participate in the international seminar on the role of intellectual in the contemporary post-Soviet societies, European Institute University, Florence, November 21-23, 2019.
- It was an honor to give an introductory lecture on “The Post-Soviet States from Commonwealth/Sodruzhestvo to Commonwealth/Sovrazhestvo” to start the Tenth International Social Science Summer School “War and Society: Making and Experiencing War (and Peace) in 19th-21st-century Eastern / Central Europe and Eurasia” in Kherson, July 2019.
- I delivered a report on the periods of the post-Soviet transition (1991-2019) at the Summer School of the London-based School for Civic Enlightenment, on May 29-30, in Segovia, Spain.
- Very intence discussion took place in Central European University – Budapest on May 25, when we – Prof. Oleksandr Fisun, Nikolai Petrov, Andrei Ryabov and myself presented our chapters in a book “Stubborn Structures.Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes” (ed. by B. Magyar, with intro by Henry Hale).
- I was proud to open with the inaugural speech “Legacy of Authoritarianism in Europe after 1989-91” the Heinrigh Boell Stiftungs 8. Europäisches Geschichtsforum “1989 – 2019: Freiheit wovon? Freiheit wofür?” in Berlin on May 2019.
- My course on the results of post-Soviet transit (videos +lectures in Russian) is published at the Sapere Aude web-site, May 2019.
- I delivered lecture on ‘Post-EuroMaidan Ukraine: political developments after the revolutionary attempt‘ at The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economic (Stockholm School of Economics) on May 16, 2019.
- I delivered report “De-Sovietization of Soviet Union, 1989-91” at the University of Padova, 14 May 2019.
- I made a report on presidential elections and state of democracy in Ukraine at the Berkeley Center, Georgetown University (Washington, DC) on April 25, 2019.
- I delivered a report on Ukraine’s presidential elections at the Kennan Institute, April 24, 2019.
- I made a report on “Post-Soviet de facto states as Radical Periphery” at the International Workshop “Secessions in Europe” Between the Statehood Claims and Conflict Resolution“, Europe University Viadrina, December 6, 2018.
- I am very thankful to Dr. Marco Puleri for discussion at my book’s Development and Dystopia presentation at the Bologna University on October 26, 2018.
- It was an honour to discuss the memory role in peace-making at the Kennan Alumni Conference in Sarajevo on October 17, 2018.
- Hugely gratefull to Gwendolyn Sasse and Wilfried Jilge for discussion at my book’s Development and Dystopia presentation at ZOiS on October 11, 2018.
- It was a pleasure and honour to participate in the Ninth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine dedicated to the topic of “Memories and Legacies of Revolutions: Continuity and Disruption, 19th-21st centuries” (Zaporizhzhya), 25-30 June 2018.
- It was a pleasure to participate in debates with Prof. Andrii Portnov and Prof. Susann Worschech on “Political power and the critical stance: Ukrainian Studies Before and After the Maidan” at the Institute for European Studies, Europe University Viadrina on April 17, 2018.
- I reported on “Post-Soviet Spiritual Transit: From Free Conscience to State-Clerical Symphony” at the “War and Peace and Religion: Religious Freedom during Russian-Ukrainian Conflict” at Yaroslav the Wise National Law University on April 12-14, 2018 (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
- I have delivered report “Contestation of Time and Space in post-Soviet Ukraine” at the international conference “Contested Spaces“, March 2, 2018.
- I was honored to participate in the conference “A Demodernization. A Global and Comparative History” at European Institute University (5-10 December 2018); my report is on “Demodernization in contemporary Ukraine” at 11:00 on February 10, 2018.
- I was glad to deliver a report on “Cycles of Revolution in Ukraine” at the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies, Cambridge University (Umney Theatre, Robinson College) on February 8, 2018.
- My interview with Konstantin Doroshenko on Demodernization in Eastern Europe, BitTV, 11 January 2018.
- I delivered a keynote report on”After Great Revolution: Soviet Modernization and Demodernization” at International workshop “The Ukrainian experiment: State-Building in practice (1917-22),” German Historical Institute in France, 11-12 December 2017.
- I made a report on “Revolutionary Legacy of 1917 in 20th century” at the German-Russian Forum, 4-7 December 2017, Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin.
- On 20 November 2017 my interview dedicated to current state of Euopean Studies was published in the MES Viadrina Newsletter.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s Ethnonationalist Turn in state-building in the interview to Ukrlaif (in Russian) can be seen here.
- My column is published in Le Mond (in French): En Ukraine, la “révolution de la dignité” a abouti à la corruption, au nationalisme et au déclin des libertés, 1 September 2017.
- My interview (in Russian) for Hromadske TV on Ukraine’s Achievments by September 2017 was published here, 26 August 2017.
- An intervew on Establishment of Personalist Regime in Ukraine for Liga.Net, 14 February 2017.
- Interview on 25 years of Ukrainian society’s transformation, 13 January 2017.
- An interview on “25 years of post-Soviet Ukraine” for Zaxid.Net, 14 December 2016.
- An series of interviews on War and Politics of Ukraine for Chroat TV HRT Vijesti, 12 – 14 December 2016.
- Discussion of Trump victory’s imact on Ukraine, Carnegie.Ru, 28 November 2016.
- Ukraine as destroyer of authoritarian systems in Ukraine (in Russian), Radio Vesti, 01.11.2016.
- Interview on Major Political Trends in Eastern Europe, UA:ONE TV Channel, Veresen, September 19, 2016.
- Summary of Ukraine’s 25 years of independence (in Rus.), Delo, 27 August 2016.
- The report on Conceptualizing the Shadow State: Understanding Roles of Official and Unofficial institutions in a Political System, was delivered at 18:00 of July 5 (LH 101/102) at Europa-Universitaet Viadrina. The discussion was just amazing! So many ideas to follow…
- I have reported on Ideological Positions of the War-Affected Populations in Ukraine at Pisma Ukraina/ZOiS Workshop “Donbas Identities in Context: From Industrial Region to Zone of Conflict“, Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin), 29 May 2017.I have delivered a lecture on Contemporary Euroscepticism in Big Europe at the Academy of Young Diplomats, European Academy of Diplomacy, Warsaw, on 3 March 2017.
- Prof. Filippini, Prof. Haran, Dr. Zolkina, and myself debated on Ukraine’s political development at Milano University on 23 February 2017.
- I was honoured to debate with Alexander Etkind and Leif Wenar on Wenar’s book ‘Blood Oil’ and nature of post-Soviet elites at European University Institute, Florence on 20 February 2017.
- I gave a public lecture on ‘Post-Soviet Social Experiements in Ukraine and Neighboring Countries‘ (in Ukrainian) on December 10, 2016 at the Center for Urban History in Eastern Europe (Lviv).
- We debated Nationalism in Ukraine and Europe (in Ukrianian) at the Halytsia Cult Seminar in Kharkoiv on 7 November 2016.
- We debated Values in Politics together with the colleagues from Ukrainian Catholic University at their new Kiew venue on 7 December 2016 (video in Ukrainian is here).
- I reported on ‘Post-Soviet Social Experiments’ at the “Political Development between Competing Empires: Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus in Search of Sustainable Political and Economic Orders», Kyiv, NaUKMA, 2-3 December 2016.
- I delivered a report on “On Construction of National Philosophies: Windelband’s History of Philosophy in the Context of European Cultural Wars” (in Ukrainian, video) at Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, 11/11/2016.
- A report on New nationaisms of EU member-states was delivered at the Civic Forum “In search of lost universalism“, Moscow School of Political Studies and Council of Europe, Berlin, 16-17 October 2016.
- I reported on Raise of nationalism in the Western Europe at the Forum ‘New Contexts of the Old Ideas: Nationalism in todays World‘, Kharkiv, October 9, 2016.
- Interview for Radio France Internations, ‘We are doomed for a compromise‘, 13/08.2015
- interview on Ukrainian Society in Times of War, Delo.Ua, August 25, 2016.
- article on Ukrainian liberal parties and DemAlliance, openDemocracy, August 15, 2016.
- interview on Post-Soviet Disorder for Russian Financial TV, August 9, 2016.
- interview on Authoritarian Regimes in Central Asia (in Ukrainian) for Espresso.TV (23”-50”), May 28, 2016.
- interview on Authoritarian Trend in Ukraine (in Russian) for Ukrlife.Tv, May 27, 2016.
- interview on Ukraine’s chaotic modernization (in Ukrainian) for Idealist TV, April 2016.
- interview on Routes of Ukrainian Corruption (in Russian), Aru TV (Estonia), March 23, 2016
- interview on Russia as Source of Demodernization in Post-Soviet Region (in Russian), Aru TV (Estonia), March 18, 2016
- interview on Drama of Ukrainian Politics (in Russian), Aru TV (Estonia), March 7, 2016
- interview to Liga.Net on Ukrainian political trends, 5.02.2016
- report on the Major political trends in Ukraine-2015, Liga.Net, 8.02.2015
- Ukraine and Lost Communities in Crimea and Donbas, Radio Liberty, 8.06.2015
- report on ‘Ukraine’s Domestic Politics’ at the Conference ‘Ukraine’s Place in Europe‘ organized by Kennan Institute and Columbia University in Kyiv, on May 28-29, 2015
- Ukraine and Lost Communities in Crimea and Donbas, Radio Liberty, 8.06.
- Ukraine’s European Integration and Monument Vandalism, 112 Channell, 26.04.
- Strategic goals for Hromadske Telebachennia, Hromadske.TB, 8.04.
- Discussing Oligarchic Wars in Ukraine, Hromadske.TB, 29.03.
- Civil Society should control, not substitute authorities (in Ukrainian), Tyzhden, 27.02.
- The Maidans aimed at increase of democracy and resulted with strengthened oligarchy, Dialogs, 25.02.15
- Ukraine, un an après. De la révolution à la guerre, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, January 22
- Hybrid Politics and Post-Soviet Ukraine (in Russian), Pastiche Project, Kiev, November 22
- Three Major Tendencies of politics in Ukraine in 2014 (in Russian), article in co-authorship with Ivan Kolodii for Liga.Net
- Results of Ukraine’s Political Development (in Ukrainian), Interview with Natalya Humenyuk, Hromadske.TV, December 22, 2014.
Theory, Praxis and History of Revolutions
One of my major current interests is revolution. I treat revolution as a space/time for political creativity of Modernity. Questions that I deal with include:
- How do revolutions change society and culture? How does revolution help a human to lessen impact of collective contexts upon his/her life?
- Epistemology of revolution: how does theory meet praxis and pre-describes the outcomes of a revolution?
- How do revolutions establish freedom and why they tend to postpone them thus promoting dictatorships?
- Why freedom-postponing revolutions prevail in European Modernity? What is ‘revolutionary tradition’? How ‘conservative revolution’ is possible?
- What is the genealogy of Russian revolution (1917 an further on)? What revolutionary tradition’ elements were continued in post-Soviet revolutions (1989-92), including ‘color revolutions’ (2003-5) and Euromaidan (2014)?
This endeavor of mine will lead to a book on the philosophical history of Russian revolution in two years. So far I have published several articles where I tested the major approaches to revolution:
1) articles
- My analysis of the philosophical background of Pope Francis’ new encyclical “Fratelli tutti” was published at the Nuovo Mondo Economico (ITAL), Koine Community (ENG) / Sapere Aude (RUS), October 22, 2020.
- “Eastern European Traumas of 20th century. Lessons of Our Political Creativity” at Agora, Kennan Institute – Kiev, December 2015
- Cooperation and Competition between CSOs, political elites and oligarchic groups after Maidan-2014 (in Russian: Сотрудничество и конкуренция между организациями гражданского общества, правящими элитами и олигархами после Майдана-2014), Forum noveishei vostochnoievropeiskoi istorii i kultury, Nr. 2 (2014), pp. 117–131.
- Modernity and Revolution in Ukraine: On Genealogy of Euromaidan (in Ukrainian: Модерн і Революція в Україні: до питання про генеалогію Євромайдана), Naukovi Zapysky NaUKMA, Nr. 154 (2014), pp. 45-53.
- “Ukrainian Sovereignty between Civic Activism and Oligarchic Renaissance” (in Eng) (in co-authorship with Ivan Kolodii), Krytyka, May 8, 2015
- Moses and Prometheus: Ukraine between Liberation and Freedom (in German: Moses und Prometheus. Die Ukraine zwischen Befreiung und Freiheit), Transit, Nr. 44 (2013), pp. 55-70.
- Post-Soviet Demodernisation: Times of New Enchantment (in Russian), Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, 2014, #6.
- “Corrupting Civil Society in Post-Maidan Ukraine?” on Carnegie publications site, on 15.04, 2015
- Modernity and Revolution in Ukraine: On Genealogy of Euromaidan (in Ukrainian: Модерн і Революція в Україні: до питання про генеалогію Євромайдана), Naukovi Zapysky NaUKMA, Nr. 154 (2014), pp. 45-53.
- Moses and Prometheus: Ukraine between Liberation and Freedom (in German: Moses und Prometheus. Die Ukraine zwischen Befreiung und Freiheit), Transit, Nr. 44 (2013), pp. 55-70.
- Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet world (in Russian: “Цветные революции” в постсоветском мире: причины и последствия), Obshchaya tetrad’, Nr. 2 (2012), pp. 93-111.
- Utopian Images of the West and Russia of the Activists of Maidan and Anti-Maidan in 2013 – 2014 (in Russian: Утопические образы Запада и России у сторонников Евромайдана и их противников. элементы идеологического оформления конфликта в Украине 2013-2014 годов), Forum noveishei vostochnojevropeiskoi istorii i kultury, Nr. 2 (2013), pp. 61-73.
2) reports and reviews
- Transcript of my lecture on differences between revolution and progress (in Ukrainian) was published at The Studrespublika site, April 29, 2020.
- TV-debates on Revolutions and Their Role in Human History, 13 January 2017.I have reported on Experiment after Experiment: Post-Soviet Political Creativity at Pavia University on 21 March 2017.
- I delivered report on Modernization, Soviet style at an International Academic Conference “The Ambiguous Past. Soviet Legacy viewed through the Prysm of Modernization“, Kiev, 17-19 March 2017.
- report on The Novorossian Myth and Eastern European Un-Recognized Nations at the conference “Ukraine’s historical and contemporary interlockings: A transnational perspective on transformations“, organized by The Institute for Transformations Studies (FIT) at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the German Association for East European Studies (DGO) Frankfurt (Oder), November 5‐6, 2015
- discussion at the the debates re ‘Fragmented sovereignties in the era of globalization‘ at 18:00 on October 5 at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in the frameworks of The School of Abducted Europe (co-organized by Institute of Human Sciences and Center for Visual Arts). Participants: Shalini Randeria, Mikhail Minakov, and Volodymyr Yermolenko
- report on Ideological and Political Developments in Ukraine after Euromaidan, at the conference of ‘Envisioning Moving Frontiers. Ukraine & The Balkans’, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 9-10.09.2015
- report on “Reconciliation in Eastern Europe and its enemies: agenda for public intellectuals” and moderate a panel at the Kennan Alumni Conference “The Role of Intellectuals in Ukrainian – Russian Dialogue“, Kyiv, May 22-24, 2015
- report on Media and Propaganda at the Civil Forum “In Quest for the Lost Universalism“, organized by the Moscow School for Political Studies, Berlin, 28-29.10, 2015
- Changing Civil Society after Maidan – 2014, text of report for The 10th Danyliv Seminar (Nov.1, 2014), Ottawa University.
- Future and Philosophical Approaches to It at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, 2 December 2015.
- the Visual and Ideology report at the Visual Problems Lecture Series, (video in Russian), Patiche Project, November 24, 2015
- report on ‘ Cooperation and Competition of Civil Society, State and Oligarchs after Euromaidan‘ at ‘Risks and Opportunities in the Civil Society – Public Institutions Relationship. A Re-Assessment of the EU and Global Policy Process‘, LUISS University – School of Government and Department of Political Science, Rome, 7-9 May 2015
- report ‘Eastern European Traumas of XX century and Limits of Our Political Creativity‘ (video) at the International Conference “Ukrainian Reconciliation Projects and the Future of Europe”, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues, Kyiv, 21-22 April 2015.
- public lecture on Epistemology of Ideology. Foundations of Political Epistemology at Zaporozhye State University on April 10, 2015
- public lecture on “Experiment after Experiment: Return of Capitalism into Post-Soviet Ukriane” at the European University Institute, Florence, on March 16, 2015
- Culture and Propaganda, debates with Vahtang Kebuladzw, moderated by Taras Lyutyi (March 11, Fedoriv.hub)
- Conflicts in the post-Soviet Eastern Europe, conference on “Ukraine, Russia and the EU Europe and Ukraine one year after Russia’s annexation of Crimea” (March 2/ 3, 2015, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin).
- report on ‘Post-Soviet Oligarchs and Political Orders‘, at CERCEC, Paris, January 26, 2015
Global Modernization, Multiple Modernities and Post-Soviet De-Modernization
My research is dedicated to processes of modernization and evolution of political cultures in imperial Russia/Soviet Union/Post-Soviet Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Taking into account a multitude of modernization processes in which political reason manifests itself, I concentrate on analysis of mutual impacts of philosophy and politics, as well government policies towards philosophy/social sciences and humanities in universities and in public sphere for the period of 1801 – 2010 in the lands of Western Eurasia. My main hypothesis is that analysis of interrelationships between authorities and philosophy/social sciences & humanities during the Eastern European modernization can identify the main factors defining the role, limits and functions of public rationality in political life of contemporary Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Antidemocratic tendencies in political life of Eastern European countries are based on legitimacy structured by dominance of irrational values and distrust to political reason.
In addition to this, I have dwelled on a concept of de-modernization as a factor of never ending transition to Modernity in Russia, Ukraine and other nations whose parting with traditional society took place within the framework of Russia Empire and/or USSR.
So far, the results of this research were published in the following materials:
1) books and articles
- My book “Диалектика современности в Восточной Европе” was published in Italian as “Dialettica della modernità nell’Europa orientale. Una riflessione socio-filosofica” (Milano: Ledizioni).
- Our collective work on demodernization is translated into Italian and published on February 18, 2021, as: DEMODERNIZZAZIONE. Un futuro nel passato.
- ikhail Minakov, Dialektika sovremennosti v Vostochnoi Ievrope (Kiev: Laurus, 2020; in Russian).
- The text of my lecture “Solidarity after democracy and Europe” (in Russian) was published by the Student Republic, 22 October 2019.
- Probably the most important of my articles in last 5 years has been finally published: The De-Modernization Current: An Approach to Understand Ethical and Political Challenges of Post-Soviet Societies, July 2016.
- A report on “Post-Soviet_Demodernization” at the International Conference “Demodernization: Perspectives and Approaches” that to be held in Nice, France on February 29 – March 1, 2016
- Post-Soviet De-Modernization: Times of the New Enchantment (in Russian: Постсоветская демодернизация: времена нового околдования), Neprikosnovennyi zapas, 6 (2014), 23-36.
- Transformation of Philosophical Education in Ukraine in the end of XX century (1986-1995) (in Russian: Трансформации философского образования в Украине в конце ХХ в. (1986-1995), Forum noveishei vostochnojevropeiskoi istorii i kultury, 2 (2014), 41–103.
- Archaeology of Eastern European Modernity. “Ministerial University” and Its Role in Cultural Modernization of Russian Empire, USSR, and post-Soviet Regions (in Ukrainian: Археологія східноєвропейської модерності. Роль моделі «міністерського університету» у модернізації культур Російської імперії, СРСР та пострадянського регіону), Kontury Universytetu: State, Church, Community, Kiev: Political Outlook (2014), 29–38.
- The Language of Dystopia, Russian Politics and Law, 5 (49) (2011), 34-43.
- The Ideological Situation in Ukraine (in Russian: Язык дистопии: идеологическая ситуация Украины), Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, 5 (73) (2010), 14-21.
- Conservative Ideologies in Ukraine (in Chinese), Foreign Theoretical Trends, 10 (2010), 7-13.
- Tenebrae seu lux ex oriente? Re-evaluation of the Soviet Philosophy in Contemporary Anglo-American Historiography (in Ukrainian: Переоцінка радянської філософії в сучасній англо-американській історіографії), Filosofska dumka 3 (2009), 103-116.
- Untraceable Impact of Totalitarianism: the Soviet Philosophy and Contemporary Intellectual Landscape (in Ukrainian: Hевловима впливовість тоталітаризму: радянська філософія і сучасний інтелектуальний ландшафт), Ukraina Moderna 14 (2009), 207-227.
- Thinking in Tenets of Traditions: A Quest for Identity on Ukrainian Philosophy (in Ukrainian: Мислення в лабетах традицій: пошуки ідентичності в українському філософському процесі), Ukrayinoznavstvo 2 (2007), 58-63.
- Intellectus Regionale: Cultural Identities of Contemporary Ukraine viewed through Trends in Ukrainian Philosophy (in Ukrainian: Intellectus Regionale: Культурні ідентичности сучасної України крізь призму тенденцій у філософському процесі), Ukrayina Moderna 12 (2007), 72-96.
2) reports and reviews
- Prof. Yakov Rabkin and I presented our book “Demodernization. A Future in the Past” (in Russian) at the International Conference of Sociologists of Science, Saint-Petersbourg, December 5, 2021.
- Report on post-Soviet demodernization at the presentation of the books “Development and Dystopia” and “Demodernization” at the Europakolloquium at the Institute for European Global Studies, Basel University, 29 October 2019.
- It was an honor to deliver two lectures at the Geneva University dedicated to the Soviet modernization and post-Soviet modernization and demodernization, October 16, 2019.
- It was an honor to discuss demodernization and “regressive sociality” concepts with Tatyana Shchtsova and Alexander Dmitriev at the Belarussian Studies Congress in Vilnius, 27 September 2019.
- I particiapted at 2016 ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention, 26 – 28 June 2016, Lviv, Ukraine: with report on Friendship in Post-Soviet Politics: between Cronyism and Solidarity and as a discussant on Ukraine’s immage in Italy.
- I made report on ‘Politics and Authority in De-Modernizing Ideological Innovations ‘ at Conference ‘Philosophy and Social Science’, Central-European Institute of Philosophy, Prague, May 18 – 22, 2016.
- A report on Post-Soviet Demodernization (video in Russian is here) at European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus on 7 April 2016.
- report on The Novorossian Myth and Eastern European Un-Recognized Nations at the conference “Ukraine’s historical and contemporary interlockings: A transnational perspective on transformations“, organized by The Institute for Transformations Studies (FIT) at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the German Association for East European Studies (DGO) Frankfurt (Oder), November 5‐6, 2015.
- report on post-Soviet De-Modernizationat at the conference “Back to the Future? Ideas and Strategies of Retrograde Modernization in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region“, a cross-disciplinary conference organized by KomPost and DGO at Europäische Akademie Berlin, 23.10.2015 – 24.10.2015.
- De-Modernization as Global Tendency, Conference “Global Political Theory in the Context of «Caritas in Veritate»”, International Institute of Ethics and Contemporary Studies (Lviv Catholic University, March 13-14, 2014.
- Frameworks of the Post-Soviet De-Modernization (in Ukrainian: Рамки пострадянскої демодернізації), Krytyka, 2013: 9-10, 4-7.
- Post-Soviet UnModernity: Genesis of Regional Finance-Political Groups (in Ukrainian: Постсовєтська несучасність республіки реґіонів), Krytyka, 9-10, 2012, 1-6.
- Short History of Colour Revolutions (in Ukrainian: Коротка історія кольорових революцій), Krytyka, 7-8, 2012, 2 – 7.
- The Labyrinths of Recognition: 20 years of symbolical divorse of Russia and Ukraine (in Chroatian: Labirinti priznanja – dvadesetogodišnji simbolični razvod Rusije i Ukrajine), Politicke Analyze, 9 (Zagreb, 2011), 9-13.
- Russia and Ukraine Looking for Mutual Interests (in Russian: Россия и Украина в поисках взаимного признания), Obshchaya tetrad, 2 (55) (2011), 60-65.
- Causes and Results of Orange Revolutions (in Rus: «Цветные революции» в постсоветском мире: причины и последствия), Obshaya Tetrad, 2 (59), 2012, 2-19.
- Quality of Authorities: An Attempt to Measure Quality of Ukrainian Power Elites (in Ukrainian: Якість влади: спроба оцінки українських еліт), Krytyka 7-8 (2010), 2-7.
- Obedient to the Eastern European Fate (in Ukrainian: Покора східноєвропейській долі), Krytyka, 11-12 (2010), 8-9.
- Disappointment of Reason (in Ukr.: Розчарованість з розуму), Krytyka 11-12 (2009), 4-7.
- Experience of Non-Understanding in the Global Situation (in Russian: Опыт непонимания в ситуации глобальности), Phenomen.Ru: setevoi filosofskiy zhurnal.
- State against Country (in Ukrainian: Держава проти країни), Krytyka 11 (2007), 3-5.
- Genre of Scientific Biography: Interlinking of Science, Politics and Ideology in Ukraine (in Ukrainian: Жанр наукової біографії: переплетення науки, політики та ідеології в Україні), Ukrayinskyi humanitarnyi ohliad 11 (2006), 10-20.
- Emancipation as Founding of Tradition: Review of L.Sofronova’s book ‘Tri mira Grigoriya Skovorody’ (in Ukrainian: Емансипація як заснування традиції. Міркування про книгу Л.А. Софронова Три мира Григория Сковороды), Ukrayinskyi humanitarnyi ohliad 10 (2004), 95-103.
Previous Academic Research
- University and Philosophy of Education
- Experience, Knowledge and Philosophy
- Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
- Philosophy of Romanticism
- Other Academic Reviews and Reports
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