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Press, 2008), and The Lukashenka Phenomenon (Trondheim, 2007). He is also the coeditor
of Ukraine’s Euromaidan: Analyses of a Civil Revolution (Stuttgart: Ibidem
Verlag, 2015). He has written more than 200 scholarly articles in refereed journals and
his speaking engagements have included the universities of Toronto, London, Tokyo,
Hokkaido, Harvard, Stanford, Western Australia, and the Lazarski University in
Warsaw, Poland. His chief areas of interest are Belarus and Ukraine, and he is the
former Director of the Stasiuk Program on Contemporary Ukraine at the Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (2004-14).
Mikhail A. Molchanov is Professor of Political Science at St. Thomas University in
Canada and foreign member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of
Ukraine. His current research interests include Ukrainian-Russian relations,
regionalism in Eurasia, and Russian foreign policy. He is co-editor and co-author of The
Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership (Ashgate, 2009) and Ukrainian
Foreign and Security Policy: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Praeger,
2002). His Political Culture and National Identity in Russian-Ukrainian Relations (Texas
A&M University Press, 2002) examines post-communist nationalism as a state-building
resource strategically utilised by the elites. His articles have appeared in Journal of
European Integration, Nationalities Papers, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Perspectives
on Global Development and Technology, Polis (Russia), Suchasnist (Ukraine), and in
other journals and books. Professor Molchanov’s next book, Eurasian Regionalisms
and Russian Foreign Policy, is to be published by Ashgate in 2015.
Olga Onuch is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester and an
Associate Fellow, at Nuffield College, at the University of Oxford. She specialises in the
comparative study of protest politics and elections in democratising states in Latin
American and Eastern Europe. Olga is an expert on protests and activism in Ukraine
and is the principle investigator of the Ukrainian Protest Project and co-investigator of a
2014 NSF funded Ukrainian Electoral Survey (Henry Hale P-I). She is a member of the
OSF-funded Strategic Advisory Group, tasked with advising the government and
president of Ukraine. Her book Mapping Mass Mobilizations (2014) investigates massmobilisation
in Ukraine and Argentina. Her research has also been highlighted on Al
Jazeera English, BBC World Service, NPR, IBT and Radio Free Europe. Follow her on
Twitter @oonuch.
Alexander Osipov is a Senior Research Associate of the European Centre for Minority
Issues (Flensburg, Germany) from September 2010. He heads ECMI’s Justice &
Governance Cluster. Previously he was involved in a series of research and human
rights advocacy projects related to some transnational minorities in the former Soviet
Union and the issues of ethnic discrimination in the Russian Federation. Currently his
Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives