The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economic (SITE) has the pleasure to invite you to a presentation on Thursday May 16, 11.00-12.30 by Dr. Mykhailo Minakov, Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. He will speak about the political developments in Ukraine after the Euro-Maidan in 2014, which is of particular interest today with the presidential election in Ukraine still undecided.

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Post-EuroMaidan Ukraine:
political developments after the revolutionary attempt
Mykhailo Minakov
Senior Fellow, Kennan Institute
The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economic (SITE) has the pleasure to invite you to a
presentation on Thursday May 16, 11.00-12.30 by Dr. Mykhailo Minakov, Senior Fellow at
the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. He will speak about the political developments in
Ukraine after the Euro-Maidan in 2014, which is of particular interest today with the
presidential election in Ukraine still undecided.
Dr. Minakov is Kennan Institute’s Principal Investigator on Ukraine the and editor-in-chief of
Focus Ukraine, Kennan Institute’s Ukraine-focused blog. He is also editor-in-chief of the
Ideology and Politics Journal. His main interest is dedicated to political modernization in
Eastern Europe, theories and practices of revolutions, political imagination and ideologies. He
has published several articles and books, including Development and Dystopia. Studies in
Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
He earned his Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and
defended his Doctoral Dissertation at the Kyiv Institute of Philosophy in 2007. For 18 years
he taught at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the National University of
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). He was also teaching at Harvard University (USA, 2010,
2012, 2013), Greifswald University (Germany, 2011, 2014, 2016) and European University
Viadrina (2017-19).
The presentation will be chaired by Torbjörn Becker, Director of SITE. Time will be available
for questions and answers after the presentation.
Date: Thursday May 16, 11.00-12.30, starting with coffee at 10.30.
Place: Stockholm School of Economics, Lecture room: Torsten, 3rd
fl.
Entrance from Bertil Ohlins Gata 5.
RSVP: Tuesday May 7, email. gun.malmquist@hhs.se