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Here I report on recent events and keep materials that I find important to share with you!
Announcements:
- 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).
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Recent academic reports and publications:
- 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:
- 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 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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You may find interesting materials on the Public Events page where I post my attempts of discussing philosophical ideas with the wider audiences or apply scholarly methods for the analysis of the reality we live in.
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Since it’s a personal web site, I added a page with my biography and a page dedicated to my hobby, photography.
I am grateful
to Nadiya Kravets for the idea of creating this web site and
to Mykhailo Koltsov who turned it into reality.