Along with my academic work, I labour to add to the quality of decision-makers in public sector. After over 18 years in political consulting and program development, I agree with the following statement of Immanuel Kant:
“That kings should philosophize or philosophers become kings is not to be expected.
Nor is it to be wished, since the possession of power inevitably corrupts the untrammeled judgment of reason. But kings or kinglike peoples which rule themselves under laws of equality should not suffer the class of philosophers to disappear or to be silent, but should let them speak openly.
This is indispensable to the enlightenment of the business of government, and, since the class of philosophers is by nature incapable of plotting and lobbying, it is above suspicion of being made up of propagandists.”
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795)
Cited by the international press and think tanks:
- Foreign Affairs: Collaborators or Compatriots? by Brian Milakovsly, October 2022
- Washington Post
- In Putin’s Ukraine quagmire, echoes of Soviet failure in Afghanistan by Griff Witte, April 2022
- Al Jazeera
- Who is Volodymyr Zelenskyy? by Sophia Ahmadi, March 3, 2022
- Politico
- Ukraine’s people power problem by Maxim Edwards
- The New Republic
- The Oligarch Battle Behind Ukraine’s Presidential Election by , April 2019
- Economist:
- Zelensky clears the old elite out of parliament, July 2019
- Front man , October 2016
- Dear Friends, February 2016
- Fighting with Ghosts, May 2015
- Haaretz
- Kytyka Polityczna
- CO OZNACZA WYGRANA ZEŁENSKIEGO NA UKRAINIE?, April 2019
- Time
- Infobae Espagna
- Bloomberg:
- Foreign Policy:
- The Corrupt Shall Inherit Ukraine, September 2018
- Kiev Fuels War too, February 2017
- Is Russia Assassinating Eastern Ukraine’s Warlords?, October 2016
- Newsweek:
- The New York TImes:
- More Than a War of Words, February 2016
- 2 More Officers Die in Violent Protest Over Autonomy for East Ukraine, August 2015
- Tempered Cheers in Ukraine for Ex-Premier, Tied to Political Past, March 2014
- Ukraine’s Battle for Europe, November 2013
- La Stampa:
- Corierre della Sera:
- L’Ucraina sarà sacrificata nel patto tra Trump e Putin?, February 2017
- Le Monde:
- En Ukraine, la “révolution de la dignité” a abouti à la corruption, au nationalisme et au déclin des libertés, 1 September 2017
- Kiev organise la cohabitation avec ses « territoires occupés », March 2017
- En Ukraine, les réformes en zigzag de Porochenko, November 2016
- Volodymyr Hroïsman, un proche du président Porochenko, devient premier ministre de l’Ukraine, 14 April 2016
- Manœuvres et coups de théâtre au Parlement ukrainien, February 2016
- L’étonnante renaissance ukrainienne de Saakachvili, November 2016
- A la recherche des Lumières perdues, November 2015
- Les volontaires ukrainiens gagnés par la rancœur, April 2015
- En Ukraine, l’influence pesante des oligarques, October 2014Carnegie Europe:
- Conference on Ukraine’s Reforms, April 29, 2016
- Ukraine From Revolution of Dignity to Government of Shame, April 2016
- The EU’s Benign Neglect of Eastern Europe, January 2016
- interview (with among many other experts) “Is Ukraine a lost cause?“, February 2016
- Reuters:
- The Continuing Soviet Colapse, November 2015
- In Ukraine, a CHoice of Civilizations, October 2013
- Institute of World Politcy: Top 10 Ukraine’s Promoters in the World – 2014, January 2015
- Diplomatic Courier: Ukraine’s Failed Anti-Corruption Crusaid, August 2015
Policy publications, reports, and media presentations:
- My interview on Ideological competition in times of COVID-19 with Aleksei Yakubin (in Russian) was published at the Commons.UA, May 11, 2020.
- Ivana Dragicevic interviewed me on Demodernization in the times of pandemic (in English) for N1 Croatian TV, May 15, 2020.
- Alphan Eseli interviewed me on “What is coming?“ for the Istanbul Radio ‘74PODCAST, May 8, 2020.
- My interview on Solidarity in Times of Global Epidemic (in Russian) was published on UKRLIFE.TV, April 18, 2020.
- A discussion (in Russian) with Mikhail Nemtsev on Post-Soviet ideologies facing COVID-19 on the virtual platform of the School of Civic Education was published on 25 March 2020.
- My interview on Modern and De-Modern traits in post-Soviet societies is published on Vesti.UA, March 3, 2020.
- My interview with UkrLife.TV’s Liudmila Nemyria on post-Soviet history, February 28, 2020.
- Interview on the history of modernity in Eastern Europe at the Idealist,TV (in Russian), February 29, 2020.
- Andrian Prokip and I just have published an article on how media leakages deform our democracy, Ukraine’s Democratic Leakocracy, at Kennan Focus Ukraine, February 27, 2020.
- An article, written in cooperation with Matt Rojansky, on Zelenskyy’s first six months rule was published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, 13 November 2019.
- My tv-interview on the spirit of time under Zelenskyy regime is published on the Apostroph TV, September 27, 2019.
- My interview on the new generation in Ukrainian politics (Rus.) is published at the Ukrfife.TV, September 16, 2019.
- My article on the risks of Zelenskyy’s presidentialism is published in Kennan Focus Ukraine, September 9, 2019.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s electoral campaign results is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, July 24, 2019.
- My column on Zelenskyy’s rule as a chance for Ukraine (Ukr/Rus) is published at Hromadske.TB, July 22, 2019.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections’ process is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, July 17, 2019.
- My TV interview with Liudmila Nemyria on the third wave of authoritarianism was published at the UkrLifeTV, July 19, 2019.
- My review of new elites cleavages in Ukraine is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, July 18, 2019.
- My analysis of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections is published in the ISPI Forum, July 17, 2019.
- My interview with Oleksiy Yakubin on ideological situation in Ukraine has been published in the Spilne/ Commons.com.ua , June 5, 2019.
- My interview to Boris Reitschuster with analysis of Ukraine’s elections (in Russian) is published by OstWestTv, Berlin, May 3, 2019.
- An interview with Volodymyr Masliichuk on definitions of 20th century was published on Historians.org, April 28, 2019.
- Georgian journalist from 1TV.GE published interview with me, April 7, 2019.
- My papers on elecctoral process in Ukraine (1, 2) is published at the Kennan Focus Ukraine, February – March, 2019.
- My analysis of electoral situation in Ukraine is published by Carnegie.Ru, March 13, 2019.
- My interview on the results of Euromaidan five years after at Hromadske TV is published, February 20, 2019.
- My interview on the martial law in Ukraine for OstWest TV Channel in Berlin was published on November 26, 2018.
- My interview “Ukraine predicted the future for other post-Soviet countries” was published at the ZOiS on October 10, 2018.
- Great discussion of my book Development and Dystopia and the edited volume of Demodernization.A Future in the Past with Liudmila Nemyria at Ukrlife.TV, October 2018.
- I presented my book Development and Dystopia and the edited volume of Demodernization.A Future in the Past at Andrei Buzarov’s TV Program, September 2018.
- My interview on populism in Ukraine is published at the VoxUkraine (in Eng, Ukr and Rus), May 2018.
- My interview on democratic progress in Ukraine is published at the Cairn.Info (France) in April 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- article on Dangers of post-Soviet Presidential Institutions (in Russian) for VoxUkraine, June 14, 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.
- article ‘Ukraine From Revolution of Dignity to Government of Shame‘ (in English), Carnegie.EU, April 11, 2016
- publiation of photocollection ‘Post-Soviet Leisure‘ in Minima Ukrainica, April 3, 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
- article “Ukrainian constitution: reform or crisis?” (in co-authorship with Matyna Stavniichuk), open Democracy, February 16, 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
- 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
- Ukraine and Lost Communities in Crimea and Donbas, Radio Liberty, 8.06.2015
- Requiem for Maidan, openDemocracy, 27.03.2015
- reporting on Ukrainian reforms at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (my part is dedicated to Politics and Justice reforms)
- 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
- 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
- The New Ukrainian Exceptionalism (in co-authorship with Matthew Rojansky), Yale Global, 23.06.
- The unlikely return of Yulia Tymoshenko, openDemocracy, 17.06.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.