{"id":1686,"date":"2024-08-24T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/?page_id=1686"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:37:01","slug":"usf-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/ro\/usf-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1686\" class=\"elementor elementor-1686\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c603fdf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c603fdf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38914f8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"38914f8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5c0a42 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c5c0a42\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ukraine Studies Fellows<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16771fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"16771fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Ukraine Studies Fellowship is offered in partnership with the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Global University. The fellowship is <br \/>funded by the Elliott School Fund for Scholars Affected by the War in Ukraine, launched in Spring 2022 in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0<br \/><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/gwtoday.gwu.edu\/elliott-school-alumna-jenna-segal-establishes-fund-help-scholars-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\"><b>The fund was created thanks to the generous support of Jenna Segal, B.A. ESIA &#8217;98 and Paul Segal.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-053ad57 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"053ad57\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a483bc8 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"a483bc8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a3ce25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-n-accordion\" data-id=\"1a3ce25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;max_items_expended&quot;:&quot;multiple&quot;,&quot;default_state&quot;:&quot;expanded&quot;,&quot;n_accordion_animation_duration&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;ms&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:400,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"nested-accordion.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-n-accordion\" aria-label=\"Accordion. Open links with Enter or Space, close with Escape, and navigate with Arrow Keys\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" open>\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"1\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> 2026 - 2027 <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e0b768 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5e0b768\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8dc190 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e8dc190\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb28c25 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"bb28c25\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d9f247 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"0d9f247\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3733\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Tetiana Klynina<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Tetiana Klynina is an Associate Professor at the State University \"Kyiv Aviation Institute\u201d, an analyst at the Center for Content Analysis, and Academic Secretary of the Scientific Society for the History of Diplomacy and International Relations (Kyiv, Ukraine). She is a member of the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed yearbook Diplomatic Ukraine and the journal Ukrainian Cultural Studies. From 2022 to 2026, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department and a Senior Research Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, where she led a research team at the Global Disinformation Lab investigating Russian historical narratives about Ukraine as a tool of disinformation. She has held research fellowships at Nev\u015fehir Hac\u0131 Bekta\u015f Veli University, Turkey (2018), the National Archives of Finland, Helsinki (2019), and New Europe College, Romania (2025). She also serves as a Case Study Expert at the Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies, an initiative launched by the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska.\n\nHer research sits at the intersection of American and Ukrainian history, tracing how diplomacy, information, and power shape national identity and international relations. On the American side, her work examines the U.S. Department of State's institutional role in shaping foreign policy during the Cold War. On the Ukrainian side, her research focuses on \u0435\u0440\u0443 U.S.-Ukrainian relationship, informal cultural practices, and social media as tools of information aggression and disinformation. She also contributes analytical pieces to Detector Media, one of Ukraine's leading media monitoring and fact-checking platforms.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8103855 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"8103855\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3742\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/138-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleksandr Romanishyn<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleksandr Romanishyn is an economist and economic-development strategist working at the intersection of business, technology, public policy, and civil society. His work bridges Ukraine, Europe, and the United States, advancing transatlantic economic partnership. He is a Board Member and Think Tank Lead of ISE Group, a think tank and accelerator ranked by the Financial Times among Europe's top innovation hubs. As Principal Investigator of UA2USA, he leads the first national study mapping the Ukrainian-American business community and quantifying its contribution to the U.S. economy in jobs, revenue, investment, and taxes, and he serves as an Adviser to the Ukrainian-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UACCI). He also evaluates deep-tech ventures as a member of the European Innovation Council (EIC) jury. He earlier served as Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, and before government, spent more than a decade in cross-border M&amp;A and corporate finance, including at Ernst &amp; Young, where he founded the first Big-Four-anchored startup accelerator in Ukraine.\n\nRomanishyn is the author and co-author of numerous policy papers, research reports, and articles on economic resilience, democratic security, energy transition, transatlantic policy, and foreign information manipulation and interference. His peer-reviewed work appears in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, and his applied research has been published or commissioned by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and CRDF Global; he also contributed to the World Bank Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cfab6bc elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"cfab6bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3739\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/135-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ola (Aleksandra) Hnatiuk <\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Ola (Aleksandra) Hnatiuk is a historian, literary scholar, translator, public activist, and former diplomat, having served in a diplomatic capacity from 2006 to 2010. She holds the academic title of Professor Dr. Hab. and is a Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warsaw.\n\nHnatiuk is the author of numerous books, scholarly publications, source editions, and essays in Polish and Ukrainian. Her latest book, Odwaga i strach (Courage and Fear), received the Ksawery Pruszy\u0144ski Polish PEN Club Award in 2018. Its Ukrainian translation, Vidvaha i strakh, won the Grand Prix at the Lviv Publishers\u2019 Forum in 2015, and the English translation, Courage and Fear, was published in 2020 by Academic Studies Press in cooperation with the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Her earlier books include Mizh literaturoiu i politykoiu. Eseii ta intermedii, Po\u017cegnanie z imperium. Ukrai\u0144skie dyskusje o to\u017csamo\u015bci, Bunt pokolenia. Rozmowy z intelektualistami ukrai\u0144skimi, co-authored with Bogumi\u0142a Berdychowska, and Ukraiins\u2019ka barokowa relihiina pisnia.\n\nShe has edited and translated dozens of books in Polish and Ukrainian and, from 1998 to 2005, directed a translation seminar for translators working between Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian. She also organized an open lecture series on Polish-Ukrainian relations at the University of Warsaw and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. From 2006 to 2019, she chaired the jury of the Jerzy Giedroyc Award for the best master\u2019s theses and doctoral dissertations.\n\nHnatiuk is a member of the Ukrainian PEN Club, where she served as Vice-President from 2018 to 2022, and has served on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Kyiv-based annual journal Polski studii.\n\nHer scholarly achievements and civic engagement have been recognized with numerous distinctions, including the Pol-Cul Foundation Prize, the Przegl\u0105d Wschodni Award, the Jerzy Giedroyc Scholarly Award, the Antonovych Prize for scholarly achievement and contributions to Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation, and the Ji magazine award for intellectual courage. In 2012, she was awarded the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-056ce2c e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"056ce2c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c3fa10 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"8c3fa10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3746\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/142-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Yana Volkova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Yana Volkova graduated from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine) and received her PhD in Political Science in 2018. Her research focuses on discursive nation-building, with particular attention to the state's role in shaping, maintaining, and transforming national identities through narratives and discourse. She is especially interested in processes of extraterritorial identity construction and the ways states influence populations beyond their national borders.\nHer PhD research examined the impact of the Turkish state on identity formation among Muslim communities in Bulgaria. From 2022 to 2025, as a British Academy Fellow at Queen\u2019s University Belfast, she investigated the discursive construction of Russian national identity in occupied Ukrainian territories. Building on this work, her current research seeks to develop a conceptual framework for the study of state-led multimodal discursive nation-building.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c74d39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4c74d39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Non-Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77577bd e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"77577bd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b843859 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"b843859\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3740\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/136-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Tetiana Kurbatova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Tetiana Kurbatova is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Economic Relations at Sumy State University, specializing in energy policy, energy security, energy economics, and sustainable energy transitions. Her research examines the transformation of energy systems in the context of geopolitical instability, hybrid threats, and regulatory uncertainty, with a particular focus on policy measures that strengthen energy resilience and support long-term sustainability. Tetiana Kurbatova has contributed to numerous research projects funded by national and international institutions. She has been awarded several research fellowships, including fellowships from the British Academy and Indiana University Bloomington. She has also served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, the University of Liverpool, and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fd44ee elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"1fd44ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3744\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/140-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Andriy Posunko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Andriy Posunko defended his PhD thesis at the Central European University in 2018. His research focused on the social and military history of Cossack units in the Pontic Steppe region. His other publications deal with the peculiarities of irregular military service in Southern Ukraine, Bessarabia, and the Caucasus; trans-imperial movement of people, goods, and ideas between Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires; as well as ambiguities of social and legal status of the inhabitants in the borderlands contested by these three states. Currently, he serves in the Ukrainian army. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56af9f0 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"56af9f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3731\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/127-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Vitalii Borymskyi <\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Vitalii Borymskyi is a historian specializing in Polish\u2013Ukrainian and Russian\u2013Ukrainian relations. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He obtained his Ph.D. in History from Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy and has held research fellowships at Nicolaus Copernicus University, the University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI). His work has been published in The Polish Review, East European Politics and Societies, and Acta Baltico-Slavica, among other journals. He received the Jerzy Giedroyc Award (2016) from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv for his doctoral dissertation and the L. Krzy\u017canowski Award (2023) from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America for the best article of the year.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5cfd0a e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f5cfd0a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f3d8e6 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"5f3d8e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3734\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/130-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Iryna Maidanik<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Iryna Maidanik is a Leading Researcher in the Migration Department at the Mykhaylo Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Life Quality Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). Her research covers a broad range of migration-related issues. Before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she focused primarily on Ukrainian labor migration abroad; since 2022, her work has concentrated on war-induced migration and displacement.\nIryna is the author of more than 100 academic publications, including two monographs: Ukrainian Youth in Foreign Labor Markets (2010) and Temporal Characteristics of External Labor Migration in Ukraine (2020). She has collaborated with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Ukraine and the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid). In addition, she serves as a peer reviewer for scientific journals in Ukraine and internationally.\nOver the past two years, Iryna has been actively involved in developing Ukraine\u2019s State Migration Policy Strategy, contributing expertise that integrates current migration trends with the country\u2019s demographic and socio-economic priorities and needs.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6079919 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"6079919\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3736\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Denys Brylov<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Denys Brylov is a psychologist and anthropologist of religion, doctor of philosophical sciences (DSc) in Religious Studies and Theology (2021). Head of the Department of Modern Studies at the A. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). His main research interests are the history of Islam in Ukraine, religion and politics, religion and peacebuilding, and the role of religion in conflicts. Denys Brylov is the author of more than 100 publications in English, French, German, Danish, Turkish, Polish, and Ukrainian. He is also the recipient of the Agatangel Krymsky Prize for outstanding research in the field of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2025). In 2026, De Gruyter Brill published his monograph \u2018(Un)known Islam in Ukraine. The History of Islam in the Territories of Ukraine from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century.\u2019<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-144f3b7 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"144f3b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3738\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/134-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Nataliya Vinnykova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Nataliya Vinnykova is a Doctor Habilis in Political Science and the Head of the International Relations Department at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. Her research and teaching focus on global governance, political decision-making under non-linear dynamics, and the geopolitical impact of Artificial Intelligence on international relations and democracy. She has been actively involved in international academic initiatives, including the AURORA 2030 Alliance project (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the JOUKRAINE project at the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences (Germany).\nIn addition to her academic leadership, Dr. Vinnykova possesses field-based humanitarian experience, having worked with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) on community resilience and protection in frontline regions. She is the author of over 120 publications, including the award-winning monograph \"Paradoxes of Political Decisions in the Epoch of Post-Democracy\" (2019). As a Petrach Non-Resident Fellow, Dr. Vinnykova will advance her research project, \"The Security-Democracy Paradox: Frontline Governance and Academic Freedom in Ukraine,\" which explores models of democratic resilience, decision-making, and institutional adaptation under existential threats.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-920ce1d e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"920ce1d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9821b9 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"f9821b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3732\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/128-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Serhii Rudko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Serhii Rudko is a Senior Lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a Senior Lecturer at the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy. He also serves as Head of the Department of Regional Studies at the National University of Ostroh Academy. Dr. Rudko holds a PhD in History and an MA in International Relations and has been a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington since 2023.\n\nHis research focuses on international security, coalition-based military assistance to Ukraine, defense cooperation, and the transformation of European security in the context of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion. Combining academic expertise with military service, he studies the institutionalization of allied support mechanisms, regional security cooperation, and the impact of international military assistance on Ukraine\u2019s defense capabilities. His recent scholarship has examined military support provided by the United Kingdom, the Nordic-Baltic states, Australia, and other partners, as well as the broader evolution of security partnerships supporting Ukraine.\n\nDr. Rudko is the author of numerous scholarly publications on international relations, security studies, and military history, including articles in the Ukrainian Historical Journal and other peer-reviewed journals. His current research explores coalition-based military assistance to Ukraine and its implications for the future European security architecture.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04f5249 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"04f5249\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3737\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/133-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine. Currently, she is pursuing a doctoral degree in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She holds a Candidate of Sciences degree in Social Communications, as well as Master\u2019s degrees with Honors in Journalism and English Philology. Her research focuses on peace and solutions journalism, media and information literacy, disinformation and propaganda in the Russian-Ukrainian war, online journalism, social media, and media education. She has participated in several international research and study programs, including a Scholar-at-Risk Fellowship at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, University of Michigan (2022\u20132025); the IREX University Administration Support Program at Utah State University (2016); the Fulbright Research and Development Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2013\u20132014); the U-LEAD study program at European University Viadrina, Germany (2018); and the UGRAD Program at Graceland University (2005\u20132006). As an Erasmus+ fellow, she has visited universities in the UK, Sweden, and Poland. Additionally, Dr. Sirinyok-Dolgaryova has served as an academic coordinator and principal investigator for several Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Modules and CBHE projects. She is also an International Expert of the Sectoral Expert Council in Social Sciences at the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance in Ukraine.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fd2df2 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"3fd2df2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3735\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Lyudmyla Kolisnyk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Lyudmyla Kolisnyk is a counseling psychologist with 19 years of professional experience, specializing in the psychodynamic approach. She holds a PhD in Developmental and Educational Psychology and is the author of numerous scientific publications and educational courses for university students. Her research interests include adolescent psychology and mental health, emotional intelligence, trauma responses, and post-traumatic growth.\n\nIn addition to her academic and clinical work, she has been actively involved in professional organizations, serving as a Board Member of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine and as Deputy Head of the Association of Psychologists of the Higher School of Ukraine. Following the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022, she relocated to Denmark with the support of a research fellowship. Since then, she has continued her work in academia and non-governmental organizations while providing crisis intervention, psychological support, and psychotherapy to Ukrainians both within Ukraine and abroad.\n\nHer current research focuses on two projects: (1) investigating the impact of retreat-based interventions on the psycho-emotional well-being of Ukrainian psychologists and psychotherapists during the ongoing war in Ukraine, in collaboration with the Danish Psychotherapy Association; and (2) examining the mental well-being of at-risk youth with a migrant background in European countries within the Erasmus+ project \u201cCROSSWAY\u201d (KA220-YOU).\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2750\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0355764 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0355764\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84ae767 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"84ae767\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3743\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/139-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleh Brovko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleh Brovko is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Philosophy at Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA) in Brazil. He holds a PhD in Political Science from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, where his dissertation examined Polish local government in the context of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe. His research interests include local government resilience, decentralization, crisis governance, central-local coordination, participatory budgeting, and local democracy in Ukraine and Central and Eastern Europe. His work examines how democratic institutions and local government systems respond to institutional stress, external threats, and emergency governance. Since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dr. Brovko has developed a research agenda on wartime local governance, democratic resilience, and participatory democracy under martial law. His recent publications include articles on local government resilience in the face of Russian aggression, participatory budgeting under martial law in Ukraine, and the territorial and decentralization reform in Ukraine. Dr. Brovko has held research positions at the West University of Timi\u0219oara in Romania, the University of M\u00fcnster in Germany, and at the Federal University for Latin American Integration (UNILA) in Brazil. He has also received several competitive fellowships and scholarships, including the International Visegrad Fund Post-master\u2019s Scholarship, a research fellowship within the framework of the Iwan Wyhowski Award, and the Lane Kirkland Scholarship.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6933744 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"6933744\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3741\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/137-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Maksym Obrizan<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Maksym Obrizan is an Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics, where he has been a faculty member since 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa (United States) and specializes in the economics of transition, applied health economics, macroeconomics, and the economics of health and well-being.\n\nDr. Obrizan has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior &amp; Organization, and World Development. His research examines the socioeconomic and health consequences of economic transformation, health system performance, and population well-being in transition and post-conflict settings. He currently serves as editor of RePEc New Economic Papers in Transition Economics and regularly reviews manuscripts for international academic journals.\n\nBeyond academia, Dr. Obrizan has contributed to policy-oriented research and advisory projects for international organizations and government institutions, including the World Bank, USAID, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Recently, he worked with the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, where his research interests expanded toward the broader economic determinants of health and well-being.\n\nHe is a frequent contributor to public policy discussions through articles published by Vox Ukraine and regularly presents his research at international academic conferences.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45f0d2f elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"45f0d2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3745\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/141-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ekaterina Bataeva<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Kateryna Bataieva (Ekaterina Bataeva) is a professor in the Department of Social Rehabilitation Technologies at the Zhytomyr Institute of Economics and Humanities of the Open International University of Human Development \u2018Ukraine\u2019 in Kyiv. She studied Sociology at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and holds a PhD and a Habilitation in Philosophical Sciences from the same institution. She has held the following positions: Assistant Professor at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (1996\u20131998); Associate Professor at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (1998\u20132008); and Associate Professor and Professor in the Sociology and Humanities Department at Kharkiv University of Humanities \u201cPeople\u2019s Ukrainian Academy\u201d (2008\u20132022). From 2024 to 2025, she was a non-resident fellow at the KIU \u2013 Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies (Frankfurt (Oder)-Berlin), working on the project \u201cHigher education in a frontline city: institutional, organizational and personal peculiarities of education during the Russian-Ukrainian war\u201d. She also focuses on the development of the concepts of \u201cfrontline\u201d and \u201cfrontline city\u201d in the context of border and urban studies. Her research fields include the theory of cities at war (including capital cities), higher education practices, social visualistics, the military identity of veterans, and the history of Ukrainian sociology. She has published widely on these topics in both Ukrainian and Western journals. She is the author of three books, the most recent of which is \u201cMilitary Identity and Social Adaptation of JFO\/ATO Veterans\u201d (co-authored with A. Artemenko), published by NUA in Kharkiv in 2022. She has also written two textbooks on social visualistics and edited textbooks on Ukrainian sociology and modern methods of content analysis. She is a member of the Ukrainian Sociological Association.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"2\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> 2025 - 2026 <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f32750a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f32750a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-783e75c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"783e75c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6245e9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a6245e9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dee06f e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3dee06f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a84bf3 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"5a84bf3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3308\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Volodymyr Kulyk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Volodymyr Kulyk is a Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. Until 2024, he worked for many years at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has also taught at Columbia, Stanford, and Yale Universities, as well as Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Ukrainian Catholic University. Additionally, he has held research fellowships at Harvard, Stanford, the Woodrow Wilson Center, University College London, and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, among other Western scholarly institutions. His research fields include the politics of language, memory, and identity, as well as political and media discourse in contemporary Ukraine, on which he has published widely in both Ukrainian and Western journals and collected volumes. Professor Kulyk is the author of four books, the latest of which is&nbsp;Movna polityka v bahatomovnykh kra\u00efnakh: Zakordonnyi dosvid ta ioho prydatnist\u2019 dlia Ukra\u00efny&nbsp;(Language Policies in Multilingual Countries: Foreign Experience and Its Relevance to Ukraine), which was published by Dukh i Litera in Kyiv in 2021. Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the George Washington University.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f49f5dd elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"f49f5dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3309\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/24-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Tetyana Malyarenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Tetyana Malyarenko is a Professor of International Security and Jean Monnet Professor of European Security at the National University Odesa Law Academy, Ukraine, and Non-resident Fellow at the Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden. She is the founder and director of the Ukrainian Institute for Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution. This Ukrainian think tank aims to promote interdisciplinary research, research-led teaching, and evidence-based advice for policymakers on crisis management and conflict resolution in Ukraine and beyond. Her primary research areas include the societal and economic aspects of security in states in transition, human security and good governance, as well as social conflicts and civil wars. She was previously the recipient of a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Grant, \u201cIn Search of Peace: Improving Conflict Prevention and Response Policies,\u201d October 2013\u2013February 2014.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e9ceb7 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"8e9ceb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3310\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ibrahim Muradov<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Ibrahim Muradov&nbsp;is a political scientist specializing in Eurasian politics, international security, and the Russia\u2013Ukraine war. He is currently a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. From 2020 to 2024, he taught at Dnipro University of Technology in Ukraine, where he continued his research and teaching until Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion displaced him. His scholarship examines Russia\u2019s wars in Ukraine, hybrid warfare, and the shifting dynamics of the post-Soviet space, with particular attention to Ukraine\u2019s agency in resisting Russian aggression. His recent article, Disrupting the Narrative: Ukrainian Agency in Resisting Russia and Winning Western Support, was published in&nbsp;Europe-Asia Studies. Dr. Muradov received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara in 2019, with a dissertation titled&nbsp;\"The Donbas Conflict as a Form of Hybrid Warfare: A Neoclassical Analysis.\" He also holds an M.A. in Eurasian Studies from METU, where his dissertation focused on&nbsp;the Competition Between the European Union and the Russian Federation over the South Caucasus and Its Implications.&nbsp; Originally from the Ahiska Turk community, which was exiled by Stalin, he lived and worked in Ukraine until 2022. In Canada, he continues to teach and publish actively while contributing to public and academic discussions on Ukraine and Eurasia<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd9a6be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd9a6be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Non-Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59695b6 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"59695b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ac4972 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"2ac4972\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3311\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/26-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Petro Baykovskyy<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Petro Baykovskyy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), where he directs the Certificate Program in European Integration, launched in 2018. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, where he also completed degrees in International Relations and European Integration, and conducted research at Humboldt University of Berlin. With over a decade of teaching and research experience, his academic focus includes Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Political Ideologies, European and American Politics, Foreign Policy, and Christianity and Politics. Since 2014, he has organized international academic programs and led several initiatives, including the U.S. Embassy\u2013funded project \u201cBuilding Democracy\u201d (2019\u20132022) and the 2022 online program \u201cAmerican Politics and Government.\u201d Since 2023, he has researched civic engagement for Ukrainian refugees in Central and Eastern Europe (Visegrad Fund) and, since 2024, the rise of Euroscepticism and its impact on Ukraine\u2019s EU integration. He actively collaborates with universities across Europe and regularly contributes to EU-focused projects and media discussions on international politics.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d341fac elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"d341fac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3312\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/27-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ihor Dvorkin<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Ihor Dvorkin graduated from the Department of History at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, and received his MA diploma in History and Archival Studies in 2005. He received his PhD (Candidate of Science in History) degree from Volodymyr Dal East Ukrainian University (Luhansk, Ukraine) in 2009. Since 2018, Ihor Dvorkin has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Studies, Culture Studies, and History of Science at the National Technical University \u201cKharkiv Polytechnic Institute\u201d. His research interests include Memory Studies, Museum Studies, and contemporary Ukrainian historiography. Ihor Dvorkin was a research fellow in non-residential programs and emergency scholarships for Ukrainian scientists at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna); &nbsp;Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. (NTSh-A); &nbsp;United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Virtual Scholar Ukraine Stipend Program); British Association for Slavonic &amp; East European Studies (BASEES); Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship); the VCU-Davis Center Non-Resident Academic Associates program for Ukrainian scholars.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d13199 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"2d13199\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3314\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ilona Khmeleva<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Ilona Khmeleva is an international lawyer and researcher specializing in global security. With extensive experience in both analytical and advocacy work, her focus includes countering economic and cyber aggression, shaping international legal accountability mechanisms, and strengthening democratic governance. She has contributed to academic and policy discourse through numerous publications and expert engagements worldwide. Ilona obtained a PhD degree at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She graduated from the leadership program on sustainable reconstruction of Ukraine at Harvard University, studied a course on digital policy and cyber warfare at Manchester Metropolitan University, and researched the international legal responsibility of Russia at the University of Toronto. She actively collaborates with international organizations, expert networks, and educational initiatives. Her background also includes significant engagement in parliamentary and constitutional reforms in Ukraine, combining affiliations with government institutions and prominent civil society organizations.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e115731 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e115731\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e606407 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e606407\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3313\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/28-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Valeriia Gergiieva<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Valeriia Gergiieva, PhD in Political Science, is currently serving as a Visiting Research Fellow contributing to the 'Arms Control and Emerging Technologies' project at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. Concurrently, she holds the position of Research Fellow at the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP). Dr. Gergieva is actively engaged in various professional networks, including the Black Sea Women in Nuclear Network (BSWN), where she serves as Vice-President and leads and moderates the webinar series \"Black Sea Experts NucTalks.\" In her academic pursuits, Dr. Gergiieva specializes in research areas such as Nonproliferation, Iran\u2019s nuclear program, and research on women\u2019s empowerment in the nuclear sector.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9681833 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"9681833\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3315\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/30-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Petro Kuzyk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Petro Kuzyk is an Assistant Professor of the International Relations and Diplomatic Service Department at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko University in 1999 and received his MA degree in Political Philosophy from the University of York (UK) in 2003. In 2004, Petro Kuzyk defended his PhD dissertation on nationalism in Eastern Europe. He has been engaged in various international programs and academic mobilities, most recently at Indiana University (Bloomington, 2022-23), the University of Toronto (Toronto, 2023), Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 University (Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, 2023), and New Europe College (Bucharest, 2023-24). His research interests include post-communist transformation in Eastern and Central Europe, nationalism in international relations, Ukraine\u2019s regionalism and democratisation, and European security. His recent research has focused on the problem of Ukraine\u2019s alleged regional and societal divisions and their international (mis)interpretations.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5be9639 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"5be9639\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3321\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleksandr Zaitsev<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleksandr Zaitsev is a Ukrainian historian and professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, specializing in the intellectual and political history of Ukrainian nationalism. He holds a Doctor of Historical Sciences degree from the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has published extensively on Ukrainian integral nationalism, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and the politics of memory. Zaitsev is the author and editor of several monographs and edited volumes, including a scholarly biography of Dmytro Dontsov, which was nominated for the Shevchenko National Prize in 2023. He has held fellowships at leading institutions such as Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His research has been recognized with several awards, including the Annual Award for the Best Monograph in Ukrainian Studies from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta in 2014.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d533a4a e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d533a4a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b8cf78 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"2b8cf78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3316\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Vasyl Namoniuk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Vasyl Namoniuk is Head of the Department of International Finance at the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He holds a PhD in World Economy and International Economic Relations. He currently serves as Head of the Horizon Europe and EURATOM National Contact Point \"Digital, Industry and Space\" and as an EEN Expert for the European Commission. His research interests focus on the intersection of sustainable finance and post-conflict economic recovery, examining how green financial instruments can be effectively deployed in fragile and transitioning economies. Dr. Namoniuk specializes in institutional analysis of emerging financial markets, regulatory frameworks for sustainable finance, and the design of green financial instruments for reconstruction contexts. Through extensive international collaborations with GIZ on Ukraine's energy transition, USAID on trade integration, and as a National Team Expert in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), he has developed expertise in sustainable development financing mechanisms. Dr. Namoniuk has held visiting research positions at Copenhagen Business School, Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and multiple European universities through Erasmus+ programs, and currently teaches at Chu Hai College of Higher Education in Hong Kong. His recent publications focus on the development of the green bond market, institutional prerequisites for sustainable finance, and post-conflict economic recovery strategies.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f288350 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"f288350\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3319\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/34-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Nataliya Reshetova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Nataliya Reshetova is a political scientist whose research focuses on hybrid democracies, democratic performance, and political trust, with particular emphasis on Ukraine. She obtained her PhD with honors for the Dissertation \u201cSatisfaction with Democracy in Ukraine from 2005 until 2011\u201d at the University of Deusto (Spain). She has held research and academic positions at internationally recognized institutions, including Sciences Po (France), the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Germany), the University of Melbourne (Australia), and the Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine). Before the war, Dr. Nataliya Reshetova served as the coordinator of international academic projects and partnerships at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). Following the outbreak of the war, she assumed the role of coordinator of the UCU Network for Solidarity. This initiative facilitated 245 scholarships for Ukrainian students and academic staff during the conflict. During the war, she also wrote the chapter \"Support for the Democracy in Ukraine\" for the book Social Values and Identities in the Black Sea Region, published by Lexington Books in 2023. Furthermore, this work was awarded the Elizabeth Nelson Prize by the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) for the best paper on society in transition.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f125182 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"f125182\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3320\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/35-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Kseniya Yurtayeva<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Kseniya Yurtayeva is an Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. She gained a Master\u2019s Degree in law enforcement from Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs in 2003, an LL.M degree in international and comparative law from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2005, and a PhD degree in criminal law, criminology, and criminal-executive law from State Research Institute at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 2010. She has extensive experience teaching courses in criminal law, criminology, and cybercrime prosecution. Professor Yurtayeva is a certified trainer at the National School of Judges of Ukraine, where she developed a course on cybersecurity and human rights in cyberspace. In 2022-2024, she was a Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Scholars at Risk Fellow at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Scholar at Weiser Diplomacy Center, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. In 2023-2024, she developed and taught a course \u201cTheory of Hybrid Conflicts in the Context of Russia-Ukraine War\u201d through the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan. She has more than 100 scientific publications, which address issues such as counteracting international and conventional crimes, contemporary mechanisms of international justice, legal and procedural mechanisms for combating cybercrime, and the use of disinformation and cyber influence in modern international confrontations.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2751\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dee0ebe e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dee0ebe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6260020 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"6260020\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3317\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/32-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Dariya Orlova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dariya Orlova is a media researcher and an Associate Professor at the Mohyla School of Journalism, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her recent research projects explored the transformation of media and journalism in Ukraine, journalists\u2019 professional identity in post-Euromaidan Ukraine, journalism in times of war, and media use among border populations in Ukraine. Dariya held visiting fellowships at the Center for Media at Risk, Annenberg School for Communication (University of Pennsylvania) in 2022-2023, and Stanford University\u2019s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2016. Her articles have been published in Journalism Studies, Journalism, and Post-Soviet Affairs, among other notable outlets.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd2b2cd elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"fd2b2cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3318\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleksii Polegkyi<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleksii Polegkyi is an Academic Director at the Center for Public Diplomacy, Ukraine. He was an Adjunct at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a visiting researcher at the Digital Humanities Institute, EPFL in Switzerland. Previously, he was a Bayduza Fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, and an MOFA research fellow at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He received an MA in Philosophy from the T. Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research interests include Ukrainian and Russian foreign policy and security, media and disinformation, and nation and identity building in the post-Soviet space.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"3\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> 2024 - 2025 <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b7d192 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7b7d192\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-168ef8a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"168ef8a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6508867 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6508867\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e356fb4 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e356fb4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c63cb9 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"0c63cb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3322\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/37-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Nadiia Bureiko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Nadiia Bureiko is the \u2018Ukraine Abroad\u2019 Programme Director at Foreign Policy Council \u2018Ukrainian Prism\u2019, network-based non-governmental research centre (Kyiv), and vice-head of research NGO \u2018Quadrivium\u2019 (Chernivtsi). She has completed her postdoctoral research at the University of St. Gallen as a holder of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and research fellowship at the New Europe College as a holder of the Pontica Magna Scholarship. Before this, Dr. Bureiko obtained her MA in International Relations and PhD in Political Science at Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, where she also worked as an assistant at the Department of International Relations. Dr. Bureiko is the author of academic articles in critical peer-reviewed journals (Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Eastern Journal of European Studies, etc.) and chapters for the edited books published by Routledge and Manchester University Press. Her research interests include perceptions of country status and image, as well as Ukraine\u2019s foreign policy and national identity. She has been working as a coordinator and researcher on international projects funded by the European Commission, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation, the Research Council of Norway, the International Visegrad Fund, the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, and USAID.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e18f221 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e18f221\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3323\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleksandr Fisun<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleksandr Fisun is a professor of political science and the department head at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine (B.A. with Highest Honors in Political Economy, 1987; C.Sc. in Philosophical Sciences, 1990; D.Sc. habil in Political Science, 2009). His research interests concentrate on Ukrainian and post-Soviet politics. During the past ten years, he has held visiting fellowships at the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, &amp; Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle); the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton); the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki; the Wilson Center\u2019s Kennan Institute; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam); the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto; the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (Warsaw), and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His publications include \u201cDemocracy, Neopatrimonialism, and Global Transformations\u201d (Kharkiv, 2006) and numerous book chapters and articles on comparative democratization, informal politics, neopatrimonialism, and regime change in Ukraine and post-Soviet Eurasia. He serves as President of the \u201cObservatory of Democracy\u201d policy research center in Kharkiv, which he founded in 2016 with a group of political experts to improve democratic accountability, civic activism, free and fair elections, and citizen awareness in eastern frontline Ukrainian regions. During his fellowship, Dr. Oleksandr Fisun will work on his research project, \u201cThe Puzzle of Ukrainian Democracy: Presidents, Oligarchs and Informal Politics after the Euromaidan Revolution.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c80ff04 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"c80ff04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3324\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Uliana Movchan<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Uliana Movchan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She has conducted research on Ukrainian politics at the University of California, San Diego (2012-2013), Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2017), Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at University of Toronto (2019), Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University (2021-2022), University of T\u00fcbingen (2022), and Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (2022-2023). She has also served as a project manager and expert on projects funded by international foundations, including the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the International Visegrad Fund.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8c8563 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d8c8563\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26cc0fa elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"26cc0fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3325\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/40-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Mykola Riabchuk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Mykola Riabchuk is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies in Kyiv and, currently, a lecturer at the University of Warsaw. He penned several books and many articles on civil society, state\/nation building, nationalism, national identity, and postcommunist transition in Eastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine. Between 2014 and 2018, he headed the Ukrainian PEN Center and served as the program director of the 83rd Congress of PEN International in 2017. His work was distinguished by several national and international awards, including the Bene Merito Medal of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs for his contribution to Polish-Ukrainian mutual understanding (2009), and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in Arts and Literature for the collection of essays \"Nationalist\u2019s Lexicon\" (2022, Polish translation 2023). His latest books (in English) are Eastern Europe since 1989: Between the Loosened Authoritarianism and Unconsolidated Democracy (Warsaw, 2020) and At the Fence of Metternich\u2019s Garden. Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization (Stuttgart, 2021).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7bc6a0 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"d7bc6a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3326\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/41-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Pavlo Smytsnyuk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Pavlo Smytsnyuk is a Ukrainian scholar of religion. He specializes in political theology, modern Greek and Slavic Orthodoxy, religious nationalism, and peacebuilding. From 2022 to 2024, Pavlo was a Seeger O\u2019Boyle Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University. Before the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Pavlo served as the Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies and a Senior Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. Pavlo has published on issues such as comparative theology, ecumenical dialogue, as well as religious approaches to tolerance, war, and the ecological crisis. Since 2021, he has been a member of the State Department\u2019s Advisory Council on Religions and Ethnicities of Ukraine and has led several international projects. Pavlo studied philosophy and theology in Rome, Athens, and Saint Petersburg and holds a Doctorate from the University of Oxford.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d153bb0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d153bb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Non-Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b23f26 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2b23f26\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56b06ba elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"56b06ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3327\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/42-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Yuliya Bidenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Yuliya Bidenko is an Associate Professor and a Curator for the Master\u2019s Program at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Political Science Department. For the spring semester of 2024, she is affiliated with the SCRIPTS Excellence Cluster at the Free University of Berlin as a Senior Visitor Research Fellow, and during 2023 was a Visiting U-NET Fellow at the Centre for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin. In 2022, she joined the National Platform for Resilience and Reconciliation as a regional coordinator in eastern Ukraine and co-established the Ukrainian-based NGO \u201cAssociation of Civic Educators,\u201d supported by the International Foundation for the Electoral Systems (IFES). In 2021-2022, Dr. Bidenko was an expert and the author of the Ukrainian annual country report for the \u201cNations in Transit\u201d by the Freedom House. Since 2016, Dr. Bidenko has been the expert for the \u201cTeam Europe\u201d Initiative of the European Union\u2019s Delegation to Ukraine. She has published academic articles and papers focused on Ukrainian resilience, decentralization, civil society, and political regime changes in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e190db0 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e190db0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3328\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/43-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Borys Kormych<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Borys Kormych is a professor of law and the department head at the National University Odesa Law Academy in Ukraine. He obtained his LLM in 1999, PhD in Law in 2000, and Dr. Sc. in Law in 2005. His research focuses on Black Sea Security, International Trade, the Ukrainian political system, and public administration. He is a member of the Public Council at the State Customs Service of Ukraine and an arbitrator at the Ukrainian Maritime Arbitration Commission. Additionally, he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Lex Portus journal. In the past year, he held a non-residence fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His previous roles also included participation in several research projects funded by the ERASMUS and Council of Europe programs. His published works include several books on Ukraine's trade and customs policy, as well as information and political security. His most recent papers focus on the Russo-Ukrainian armed conflict in the Black Sea, Ukrainian grain exports, Russian policies toward occupied Ukrainian territories, and legal aspects of gray zone conflicts.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33b5fe7 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"33b5fe7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3332\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/47-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Olena Lytvyn<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Olena Lytvyn is an Associate Professor at the International Finance Department of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she is responsible for international cooperation activities, teaching, research, and methodological issues. Her research focuses on sustainable development, international economic integration and globalization, international investment and banking, as well as international competitiveness and world commodity markets. She has been engaged in various international projects and participated in academic programs of the Estonian Business School (2023), ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium (2019), College of Europe Natolin Campus, Poland (2019), Institute for European Studies of Vrije Brussel University, Belgium and Vienna Diplomatic Academy, Austria (2016), Joint Vienna Institute, IMF, Austria (2011). She has published numerous articles on sustainable development, European integration, business activity, investment-stimulating processes, digital transformation, and innovative technologies in the economy.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5851370 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5851370\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8176842 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"8176842\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3330\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/45-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Yurii Latysh<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Yurii Latysh is a Visiting Professor of the State University of Londrina, Brazil. He received his PhD in History from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Dr. Latysh founded and headed the academic and professional program \u201cApplied (Public) History\u201d of the Bachelor's degree program of the Faculty of History at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv from 2019 to 2023. He is also the Deputy editor-in-chief of the journal The Historical Expertise and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ethnic History of the Peoples of Europe and the Journal of Ukrainian History. His research interests include Memory Studies, Historiography, the Decembrist Movement, and Perestroika. During his fellowship, Dr. Latysh will work on his research project, \"Politics of Memory during the Russo-Ukrainian War.\"<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c5f8f6 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"1c5f8f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3333\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/48-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Roman Molikevych<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Roman Molikevych is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Ecology at Kherson State University, Ukraine. His research interests lie in human geography, focusing on health geography, migrations, ecology, and the application of geospatial Technologies. He holds a PhD in Geographical Sciences from the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where his dissertation explored the health status of populations in the Kherson region. Dr. Molikevych serves as the Head of the educational program \"Secondary Education (Geography)\" at Kherson State University and has received recognition for his work as a scientific mentor. He also works on improving the quality of training young people in geography as an expert on accreditation of educational programs of the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f2bad5 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"9f2bad5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3329\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/44-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Natalia Kudriavtseva<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Natalia Kudriavtseva is currently Professor of Translation and Slavic Studies at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. She received her MA in Second Language Pedagogy from Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Ukraine (2003), and her PhD in Social Theory from Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, in Kyiv (2008). She completed her habilitation thesis in Linguistics and Translation Studies and was awarded the Doctor of Science degree by Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (2018). Her research focuses on language policies, identities, and grassroots language activism. Her recent work explores language practices in wartime Ukraine as well as the transition to Ukrainian among Ukraine\u2019s speakers of Russian. Dr. Kudriavtseva has published internationally and written for the US Kennan Institute\u2019s Focus Ukraine blog, Canadian Forum for Ukrainian Studies, and Germany-based Ukraine-Analysen and Ukrainian Analytical Digest.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e0547aa e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e0547aa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f83acbd elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"f83acbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3331\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Marian Lopata<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Marian Lopata is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of Ukrainian Catholic University. He graduated from the Centre of East European Studies at the University of Warsaw in 2011 (Poland). He received his PhD in 2015 (thesis entitled \u201cComparative analysis of the formation, stability, and efficiency of the Coalition Governments in Visegrad Group countries\u201d) at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). His research interests include the political transformation of Central and Eastern European countries, the political preferences of national minorities, minority issues, political parties and party systems, and voting behavior in Eastern Europe. Since 2017, he has participated in academic mobility programs with several European universities. Dr. Lopata was a fellow of the Lane Kirkland Research Scholarship Program at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland). In 2019, he obtained the Iwan Wyhowski Award from the Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw. He conducted a scientific internship at the University of Bia\u0142ystok and the Warmian-Masurian University. During his fellowship, he will conduct research on the political activities of national minorities in Ukraine from 2014 to the commencement of the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03660ee elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"03660ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3334\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Vadym Osin<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Vadym Osin is a political scientist, an Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political Theory, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Dnipro University of Technology (Ukraine). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2003 from Dnipropetrovsk National University. The thesis title is 'Content Analysis as a Means of Political Science: Constitution and Reproduction.'&nbsp; His main research interests include the politics of knowledge in the post-Soviet space, the impact of Ukraine\u2019s neopatrimonial political regime on academia, the sociology of science, postcolonial theory, and the history of political science.&nbsp; He is the author of more than 70 studies, including monographs, and has developed numerous academic courses for BA and MA students enrolled in the Political Science program. His published works include Processes of constitution and reproduction in science: researching content analysis variations (Dnipropetrovsk, 2007), Power and Knowledge in Post-Soviet Space: Political Regime, Academic Degree, Ideology and Career in Ukraine and Moldova (co-authored with Angela Zelenschi and Sergiy Shulyak, Vilnius, 2014), Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in the context of geopolitical strategies of the USA, EU and the Russian Federation: axiological ideals and forced praxis of executive and legislative powers in Ukraine (content analysis of press) (collective monograph, Torun, 2015), and Scientists and Power in the context of political science in post-Soviet Ukraine (collective monograph, Kyiv, 2016).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e586789 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e586789\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3338\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Alla Zakharchenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Alla Zakharchenko is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine. From 2003 to 2015, she served as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Kyiv (2006). She is currently a key staff member of the Jean Monnet module \u201cMEDITERreg. The Ring of Mediterranean: Regional Studies\u201d (2022-2025). She is also a member of the Academic Council of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS). Dr. Zakharchenko\u2019s area of expertise includes U.S. foreign policy, political transformations, and security issues in the Middle East and Indo-Pacific regions. She has been honored with scholarships from the U.S. Department of State, Brandeis University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, among others. Since 2022, she has been a participant of academic mobility at Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan University and the Centre for High Defense Studies (CASD), Rome. Dr. Zakharchenko\u2019s wartime research focuses on the response of the Global South to the war in Ukraine.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2752\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f51270 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0f51270\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-393d644 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"393d644\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3335\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Valeriia Palii<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Valeriia Palii is a graduate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and holds a PhD in Psychology. She has experience in teaching, psychological counseling, developing psychological tests, and managing international teams to implement various psychological initiatives in Ukraine. Since 2020, she has been the President of the National Psychological Association, the largest professional association of psychologists in Ukraine. She is a co-founder of the Psychological Support Hotline, which operates free of charge in Ukraine and abroad. She is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Significant Contributions to the Development of Psychology from the American Psychological Association and holds the European Certificate in Psychology, EuroPsy.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1ff916 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e1ff916\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3336\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/51-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Iryna Rabotyagova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Iryna Rabotyagova is an Associate Professor of Political Science at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. In 2014, she received her PhD in Political Science. She successfully defended her paper, \u201cPolitical Markets in the World Symbolic Differentiation System: The Institutional and Anthropological Dimension,\u201d at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Since 2016, Dr. Rabotyagova has been a regular annual participant in the Global Politics Workshop project of the Center for Global Policy of the Free University of Berlin in Lviv. She has presented at and participated in numerous conferences around the globe, including the 2017 PONARS Eurasia conference in Kharkiv and at the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance in Colombo, Sri-Lanka.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b27dd1e elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"b27dd1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3337\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/52-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Taras Samchuk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Taras Samchuk is an assistant at the Department of Ancient and Modern History of Ukraine (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) and an analyst at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. His research interests include Ukrainian culture and art history in the context of cultural diplomacy and postcolonial studies. In 2016-2017, he was a fellow at the \u00abDemocracy Study Centre\u00bb project supported by the German Foreign Ministry and a fellow of the Programme for Young Scientists supported by the Polish government. In 2021-2023, Dr. Samchuk was a mentor in \u00abConnecting Memory\u00bb, a Ukrainian-German project with the mission of honoring and protecting sites of remembrance for the victims of National Socialist mass crimes. During his fellowship, Dr. Samchuk will conduct research on the \u201cRepresentation of Ukrainian culture and art abroad during the Cold War\u201d.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"4\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> 2023 - 2024 <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04dd971 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"04dd971\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fbb893e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"fbb893e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ade3aaf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ade3aaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8df03f e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b8df03f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b52e3ee elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"b52e3ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3323\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleksandr Fisun<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleksandr Fisun is a professor of political science and the department head at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine (B.A. with Highest Honors in Political Economy, 1987; C.Sc. in Philosophical Sciences, 1990; D.Sc. habil in Political Science, 2009). His research interests concentrate on Ukrainian and post-Soviet politics. During the past ten years, he has held visiting fellowships at the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, &amp; Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle); the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton); the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki; the Wilson Center\u2019s Kennan Institute; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam); the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto; the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (Warsaw), and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. His publications include \u201cDemocracy, Neopatrimonialism, and Global Transformations\u201d (Kharkiv, 2006) and numerous book chapters and articles on comparative democratization, informal politics, neopatrimonialism, and regime change in Ukraine and post-Soviet Eurasia. He serves as President of the \u201cObservatory of Democracy\u201d policy research center in Kharkiv, which he founded in 2016 with a group of political experts to improve democratic accountability, civic activism, free and fair elections, and citizen awareness in eastern frontline Ukrainian regions. During his fellowship, Dr. Oleksandr Fisun will work on his research project, \u201cThe Puzzle of Ukrainian Democracy: Presidents, Oligarchs and Informal Politics after the Euromaidan Revolution.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c11ee77 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"c11ee77\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3339\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Kateryna Ruban<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Kateryna Ruban is a historian who received her Ph.D. from New York University in September 2022. In her dissertation, Dr. Ruban explores the role of abortion in Soviet life and argues that for doctors, this medical procedure was a part of female emancipation both in the early Soviet and postwar periods. Her findings are based on a microhistory of a provincial hospital in the town of Irshava, Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine), and a memoir by a Soviet Ukrainian obstetrician-gynecologist who worked there. Earlier, Kateryna earned a master\u2019s degree at the Central European University in Hungary and at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Before coming to the US, she was a part of the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv. Kateryna has published numerous short articles on current political events in both Ukrainian and English. During her stay at IERES, Dr. Ruban will turn her dissertation into a book, provisionally entitled Female Emancipation in OBGYNs\u2019 Hands: Dr. Nina Holopatiuk and the Short History of Abortion in the USSR. She will also continue her research on how Russian academia presents the war in Ukraine and its role in this war for the Western audience.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ba5a90 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"4ba5a90\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3324\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Uliana Movchan<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Uliana Movchan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She has conducted research on Ukrainian politics at the University of California, San Diego (2012-2013), Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2017), Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at University of Toronto (2019), Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University (2021-2022), University of T\u00fcbingen (2022), and Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (2022-2023). She has also been a project manager and expert on projects funded by international foundations, including the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the International Visegrad Fund.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e1eeb0 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8e1eeb0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-076e4e2 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"076e4e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3340\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Polina Sinovets<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Polina Sinovets is Head of the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation (OdCNP) and also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Sociology at Odesa\u2019s Mechnikov National University, Ukraine. Her expertise is in nuclear history and policy, military history, Ukraine, and Russia. From 2004 to 2012, she was a Senior Research Associate at Ukraine\u2019s National Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2006, she was a Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, a Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015, and a Fulbright Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation in 2017 (in Washington, DC). She has published numerous articles on nuclear deterrence, disarmament, missile defense, and nonproliferation in Ukrainian, Russian, and English.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57c2b87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"57c2b87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Non-Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a18ad2 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7a18ad2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1944c7b elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"1944c7b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3341\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/56-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Iryna Baltaziuk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Iryna Baltaziuk completed her Doctor of Philosophy study in Theory and History of Art at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine. For the past year, she has been affiliated as a visiting scholar at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA), as part of the nonresidential program. In 2022, with the support of a scholarship from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Iryna published the book \u201cPortrait archive: the war diary\u201d dedicated to her personal experience of life in the war. She has been honored with awards and grants, including B\u00f6senberg-Foundation prize (2023), Ukrainian Cultural Foundation stipend (2022), \u201cJam Factory\u201d Art Center Grant (2022), \u201cPEN America\u201d Foundation grant (2022), Ukraine President grant (2019), Kyiv Mayor Award for exceptional achievements of youth in the development of the capital of Ukraine (2018), Diploma of International academy of the rating technologies and sociology \u201cGolden Fortune\u201d (2018 and 2016) and more. Her primary research interests lie in the study of the language of symbols in modern art, encompassing several related disciplines, including visual communication, the lexicon of contemporary art, the interpretation of artworks, and the modification of universal symbols on a national ground, among others.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0af773 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"a0af773\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3343\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/58-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Vitalii Lebediuk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Vitalii Lebediuk is an Associate Professor at the Department of National Security and Political Science and the Director of the School for Political Analysis \u201cPolis\u201d at the National University of Ostroh Academy (Ukraine). He received his PhD in 2012 and is currently studying for the Doctoral (habilitation) program in Political Science at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). His research interests include democratization, political parties and party systems, as well as election systems and voting behavior in Eastern Europe. Since 2010, he has participated in academic mobility programs with several European universities. Dr. Lebediuk was a fellow of the Lane Kirkland Research Scholarship Program at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Lublin, Poland). He served as academic coordinator of the Erasmus+ project \u201cEuropean Values and Identity Studies\u201d and coordinator of the program \u201cThe Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine\u201d (V4EaP Visegrad University Studies Grant). He is also the academic supervisor of the Eastern Studies double-degree master\u2019s programme at the National University of Ostroh Academy (Ukraine) and the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland). He is the editor-in-chief of a peer-reviewed academic journal, \u201cAgora. Social Sciences Journal.\u201d During his fellowship, Dr. Lebediuk will conduct research on \u201cElectoral and Non-Electoral Participation in Ukraine: Do Political Attitudes, Social Class or Religiosity Matter?\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38de3a0 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"38de3a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3350\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/65-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oleg Yarosh<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oleg Yarosh is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Sector of History of Oriental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine. His research interests are focused on comparative studies in Intellectual History, Islamic Studies, and the Anthropology of Religion. Dr. Yarosh has actively participated in academic mobility programs in Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the US, and the UK. He has published extensively both in Ukraine and abroad on topics such as Islam and Sufism in Ukraine and Central-Eastern Europe, Political Islam, Religious Studies, and Cultural Studies theory. His published works include Mass and Popular Culture: Theories and Practices (co-authored with Taras Luty, Kyiv, 2007), Ideology: Matrix of Illusions, Discourses, and Power (co-authored with Taras Luty, Kyiv, 2016), and Islam in the Public Sphere: Theories and Social Practices (Kyiv, 2020). Dr. Yarosh is a contributor to the book series \u201cYearbook of Muslims in Europe\u201d, in which he covers Islam and Muslims in Ukraine (Leiden, Brill). During his fellowship, Dr. Yarosh will work on his research project titled \"Ukrainian Refugees and Muslim Religious Philanthropy in Poland and Germany\".<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b724eb1 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b724eb1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2801ff elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e2801ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3344\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Myroslava Lendel<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Myroslava Lendel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Uzhhorod National University, Director of the Research Institute of Central Europe, and one of the founders of the Research and Development Center \u201cBorderland\u201d based in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. She focuses on local governance and regionalism in Central Europe, as well as on security in the region, particularly its migration and cross-border aspects. Dr. Lendel is the author of several publications on the Europeanization of policy in Ukraine, as well as its subregional and regional integration. She developed a methodology for analyzing local political institutions, processes, and citizen cultural orientations in countries undergoing systemic transformation. Past positions include Senior Research Associate of the National Institute of the Strategic Studies (2011-2018), Expert of the East West Institute (1997-2007), Manager of the Carpathian Foundation (1997-2000), and team leader of several research and cross-border development projects supported by EU programs and other international funds and organizations.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64af633 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"64af633\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3345\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Vitaliy Lytvyn<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Vitaliy Lytvyn is a Professor at the Department of Political Science of Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine. He received his PhD in Political Science in 2010 (with the dissertation \u201cComparative analysis of government stability in Central European countries and Ukraine\u201d) and ScD in Political Science in 2018 (with the dissertation \u201cInstitutional, procedural, political and behavioral attributes and varieties of semi-presidential system of government: comparative analysis on the example of European countries\u201d), both from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Dr. Lytvyn specializes in political institutions and systems, party and electoral systems, political regimes, systems of government, semi-presidentialism, inter-institutional relations, and constitutional engineering. He is the author of more than 100 studies, including monographs, and has developed numerous academic courses. Dr. Lytvyn also works as an analyst, political scientist, and head of research programs at the Center for Political Studies in Ukraine. During his fellowship, he will conduct research devoted to the issues of the potential impact of various political systems and institutional designs as specific correlates of war or peace.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d29743 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"9d29743\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3346\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Igor Lyman<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Igor Lyman is a Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Department of History and Philosophy, Coordinator of International Relations of Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Head of the Expert Council of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine), Member of the Presidium of NGO \"Innovative University\", and Coordinator of Scholar Support Office. Spheres of research activities: Ukrainian Diaspora, History of International Relations, Regional History (History of the South of Ukraine), Maritime History, Religious History, Social History, Oral History, Urban History, Gender Studies, Historiography, Archeography, History of Education, and Modernization of the Educational System of Ukraine. He has presented research in Ukraine, Mexico, Turkey, and various countries throughout the European Union. His books and articles have been translated into more than seven languages and published in over a dozen countries.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5278db1 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5278db1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2003c3 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"e2003c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3342\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Olena Bordilovska<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Olena Bordilovska has been a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Kyiv, under the President of Ukraine, since September 2022. She is also a part-time lecturer at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Institute of International Relations, Indologist Department). From 2019 to 2022, she served as Second Secretary at the Embassy of Ukraine in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where she was responsible for humanitarian cooperation, culture, and information. Before that, she was on the staff of the Institute of International Relations at Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy, where she specialized in South Asia in Global Affairs and the \u201cAsian Century\u201d as a current trend in international affairs. She has been a visiting lecturer at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2005, 2007), Jagiellonian University, Poland (2013), American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2015), Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan (2017), and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (university), India (2018).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-420f04f elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"420f04f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3348\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/63-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Elmira Muratova<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Elmira Muratova is a political science scholar specializing in the identity and religion of the Crimean Tatars. She was previously employed in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Taurida National University in Simferopol. Dr. Muratova was a Research Fellow at Aarhus University, the University of Kansas, University College London, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Charles University in Prague. From 2009 to 2014, she provided policy analysis and consultations to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from Taurida National University, where she researched the Islamic revival in post-Soviet Crimea. Dr. Muratova is the author and editor of several books and has more than sixty research articles and book chapters in the areas of Crimean Tatar identity and religion, as well as ethnic and religious developments in Crimea. Her last (co-authored) book, Crimean Tatars under the Changes in Political Arena, was published in 2020.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-538ce01 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"538ce01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3349\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/64-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Viktor Stepanenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Viktor Stepanenko is a Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv and Editor-in-Chief of the journal \u201cSociology: Theory, Methods and Marketing\u201d (http:\/\/en.stmm.in.ua\/). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1998 and defended the title of Doctor of Science in Sociology at the Institute of Sociology in Kyiv in 2016. His research interests include issues of post-authoritarian transformation, democratization, and civil society. He is also studying societal and ethno-political problems in contemporary social theory. Dr. Stepanenko\u2019s recent publications include editing and writing for the books \u201cUkraine after Euromaidan: Challenges and Hopes\u201d (Bern: Peter Lang, 2015), \u201cCivil society: Discourses and Practices\u201d (Kyiv, 2016), and \u201cCOVID-19 pandemics in Ukraine: social consequences\u201d (Kyiv, 2021).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd9ee05 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cd9ee05\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c6107c elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"4c6107c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3351\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Yaryna Zakalska<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Yaryna Zakalska is a leading folklorist at the Folklore and Ethnography Centre of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology of the Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv. Her main interests are connected with the folklore of difficult existential social periods. She has studied the folklore of the Revolution of Dignity and the modern Russian-Ukrainian War before 2021. During her fellowship, she will compare folklore material created after the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion with that of the Ukrainian resistance movements of the 20th century and the armed struggles of other ethnic groups. Dr. Zakalska received her Ph.D. in Folklore studies in 2021. She has taught at the National Aviation University (Kyiv) and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2016-2017, 2020-2021). She has also given public lectures at home and abroad, particularly in Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, and Austria.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82bc31d elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"82bc31d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3352\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/67-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Yuriy Zaliznyak<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Yuriy Zaliznyak is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the Ivan Franko University of Lviv. His journalism career began as an intern, reporter, editor, and anchor in local, national, and international newsrooms, including the BBC Ukrainian Service (2002-2003), The Guardian (2003), and Radio Deutsche Welle (2004-2006). His dissertation (2007) was titled \u201cEthical intellectualism in publicistic writings of Ivan Dziuba and Vaclav Gavel\u201d. His areas of interest include new media, social networks, modern methods of information manipulation, journalism standards, media ethics, and cognitive warfare. In 2018-2019, he was appointed a Fulbright Scholar to the US, working on a project examining the influence of fake news on journalism. He periodically conducts trainings and masterclasses as an expert for the Pypyp Orlyk Institute of Democracy in different cities of Ukraine. Since February 2022, Yuriy Zaliznyak has been a local producer with ABC News covering the unprovoked Russian war against Ukraine.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8eab812 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"8eab812\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3353\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/68-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ruslan Zaporozhchenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Ruslan Zaporozhchenko is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Sociology, School of Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. In September 2022 \u2013 March 2023, he was a Non-Residential Researcher at The New School for Social Research. He teaches courses in \u201cPolitical Science\u201d, \u201cConflict Studies\u201d, \u201cPolitical Communications\u201d, and \u201cGeopolitical Studies\u201d. His research interests focus on the study of empires and imperialism, social and political space, the sociology of power and ideology, social divisions and cleavages, postcolonial studies, with a special emphasis on Ukraine and the post-Soviet space. His articles and chapters in monographs have been published in Problems of Post-Communism, Ideology and Politics Journal, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, as well as in Palgrave Macmillan and Ibidem-Verlag.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2753\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-632ab62 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"632ab62\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a697a4a elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"a697a4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3347\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/62-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Olena Muradyan<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Olena Muradyan is Dean of the School of Sociology (since 2015), an Associate Professor at the Political Sociology Department (since 2013), Candidate of Science in Sociology (Ph.D.) (2011), and Gender Commissioner (since 2022) at V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her research focuses on social inequality, gender sociology, social values, political sociology, higher education, urban food policy, and international comparative sociological studies.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<details id=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" class=\"e-n-accordion-item\" >\n\t\t\t\t<summary class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title\" data-accordion-index=\"5\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-header'><div class=\"e-n-accordion-item-title-text\"> 2022 - 2023 <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class='e-n-accordion-item-title-icon'>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-opened' ><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-minus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h384c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class='e-closed'><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-plus\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M416 208H272V64c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32h-32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v144H32c-17.67 0-32 14.33-32 32v32c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h144v144c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h32c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32V304h144c17.67 0 32-14.33 32-32v-32c0-17.67-14.33-32-32-32z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5af7ece e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5af7ece\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1ed61e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f1ed61e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-080d27c e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"080d27c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29d2ec7 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"29d2ec7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3660\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/103-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Kateryna Ruban<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Ruban recently defended her PhD in history at New York University. She earned her MA degrees in history from Central European University (Budapest) and cultural studies from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv). Her research interests encompass all major topics in Soviet history, intersected by gender studies, critical theory, Marxism, memory politics, and urban transformations under capitalism in Ukraine. Working and living in Ukraine and the US, she has published numerous short articles on current political events in both Ukrainian and English. Her current research, titled \u201cThe Abortion Question in Soviet Modernity: Doctors and Patients in a Soviet Ukrainian Hospital, the 1940-1960s,\u201d explores Soviet public healthcare, in particular maternity care and abortions, and the role of doctors in the Soviet-proclaimed emancipation of women. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb884cb elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"fb884cb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3661\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/104-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Roman Kalytchak<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Kalytchak is Senior Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence \/ Western Ukrainian Centre for European Studies and is the Coordinator of the Masters Program for the Faculty of International Relations at Ivan Franko National University.  He has a background in Political Science. As an IERES Fellow, Dr. Kalytchak will pursue a research project titled \u201cMapping Amerykanoznavstvo (American Studies) in Ukraine: Local and Global Perspectives,\u201d which will analyze trends in the field, compare U.S-focused scholarship in Ukraine with other models of American studies, and reflect on how the U.S. experience in American studies can be harnessed and applied in the Ukrainian context. In his critical analysis of American Studies, Dr. Kalytchak seeks to promote a more balanced understanding of the United States as a global actor. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36f49fc elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"36f49fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3662\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/105-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Antonina Berezovenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Berezovenko is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature, and Culture at the National Technical University of Ukraine \u201cIgor Sikorski Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,\u201d and is also very involved with our partners at ASEEES. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Philology and Linguistics from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and teaches primarily on language development, especially in the context of historic narratives and national identity. As an IERES Fellow, Dr. Berezovenko will conduct a research project titled \u201cUkrainian Identity in War Times: Directions, Means and Perspectives of Resistance,\u201d which will examine the intersection between asymmetrically applied Ukrainian language policy and Russian propaganda on its claims to Ukraine, especially regarding the protection of Russian speakers.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd8f880 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd8f880\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Non-Resident Fellows<\/strong><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eee93ea e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"eee93ea\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c07107 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"9c07107\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3669\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/106-1-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Svitlana Biedarieva<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Svitlana Biedarieva is an art historian, artist, and curator with an interest in Ukrainian, Eastern European, and Latin American art. Her recent research is dedicated to the discussion on decolonization of Ukrainian culture.  She has several texts and two books forthcoming.  She continues to teach her students in Mexico City, where she curated an exhibition on wartime Ukraine (At the Frontline: Ukrainian Art 2013 - 2019).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f3cd94 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"9f3cd94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3670\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/107-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Marharyta Chabanna<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Marharyta Chabanna is the head of the Political Science Department at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. As a researcher, Dr. Chabanna focuses on political manipulation, totalitarian regimes and post-totalitarian transformations, public consciousness in transitional societies, anti-corruption policy, electoral context of political opportunism and electoral support of far-right political parties. She was forced to move to western Ukraine after the Russian invasion, where she continues to teach political science courses remotely.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-632aed9 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"632aed9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3673\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/110-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Dmytro Iarovyi<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dmytro Iarovyi is a doctoral student at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, where he just started his second PhD on communication and information. Formerly, he worked at the Kyiv School of Economics as a lecturer and program manager at the Public Policy and Governance Department.  He also worked as the Head of the International Communications and Analytics Office at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12a475e e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"12a475e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c184362 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"c184362\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3671\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Vitalii Dankevych<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Dankevych is the dean of the Faculty of Law, Public Administration and National Security in Polissia National University (Ukraine) and a professor at the Department of International Economic Relations and European Integration. Dr. Dankevych investigates the issue of food security, and particularly the impact the Russian war against Ukraine has had on global food security. Since the beginning of 2022, Dr. Dankevych has been internally displaced but has nevertheless organized and conducted several international forums on global food security.  <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5753b35 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"5753b35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3672\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/109-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Volodymyr Dubovyk<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Volodymyr Dubovyk is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and the Director of the Center for International Studies at Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine).  His areas of expertise include Ukraine, transatlantic relations, the U.S., Black Sea security, security studies. Since the war broke out, Dr. Dubovyk had to relocate to western Ukraine, where he continues to teach his students remotely. He is a regular contributor to IERES\u2019 PONARS publications, where he writes on US-Ukraine relations, regional and international security and Ukraine\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79ade85 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"79ade85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3674\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/111-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Yuriy Matsiyevsky<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Yuriy Matsiyevsky is Professor of Political Science and the head of the Center for Political Research at the National University of Ostroh Academy in Ostroh, Ukraine. In 2014 Dr. Matsiyevsky joined our PONARS Eurasia policy network. His research interests include political regimes, democratization, informal institutions in politics, and contentious politics. His recent work questions myths that Donbas conflict was primarily caused by internal factors and that Ukrainians are prone to authoritarianism. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffa7c0c elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"ffa7c0c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3675\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/112-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Ararat L. Osipian<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Ararat L. Osipian is a Founding Fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium at the New School University in New York.  Since February 24th, he has been internally displaced in Ukraine, but has continued to conduct fieldwork in both eastern and western parts of the country and to present at conferences for ASEEES, APSA, ASA, and CIES. His current research interests include corruption in post-communist regimes, corruption in higher education, corporate raiding, and economic growth and development. He is now completing a book  called World Bank Comes to Ukraine: University Mergers, Protests, Corruption, War.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa9ba61 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"fa9ba61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3665\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/102-1-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Tetyana Malyarenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Tetyana Malyarenko is Professor of International Security and Jean Monnet Professor on European Security at the National University \u2018Odesa Law Academy\u2019, Ukraine. She is the founder and director of the Ukrainian Institute for Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution, a Ukrainian NGO that aims to promote interdisciplinary research, research-led teaching, and evidence-based advice to policy-makers on crisis management and conflict resolution in Ukraine and beyond. Her main areas of research interest include societal and economic aspects of security in transition states, human security and good governance, social conflicts, and civil wars. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cebfd80 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"cebfd80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3678\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/115-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Maksym Yakovlyev<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Dr. Maksym Yakovlyev is Head of the Department of International Relations and Director of the School for Policy Analysis at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2021 he was elected to the Public Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He studies discourse analysis and interrelations between language and politics in international relations, post-socialist social and cultural transformations, political concepts and ideologies, Ukrainian identity, the region of Donetsk, (post)modern Russian imperialism, populism, conspiracy theories and conspiracists\u2019 worldview. After the military invasion of Ukraine, Dr. Yakovlyev decided to stay in Kyiv.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-2754\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c499c20 e-grid e-con-full e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c499c20\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42dae8d elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"42dae8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3676\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/113-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Sergii Pakhomenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Sergii Pakhomenko is an Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Mariupol State University. His academic interests include memory politics, ethnopolitics, nationalism studies, propaganda, and informational warfare. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-398cbca elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"398cbca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3677\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/114-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Svitlana Tarasenko<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Tarasenko Svitlana has her PhD in Economics from Sumy State University, Ukraine. Her research interests include industrial policy, innovations, entrepreneurship, sustainable development, and international business. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d211f37 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"d211f37\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3664\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.petrachprogram.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/116-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Oksana Zamora<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Oksana Zamora is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Economic Relations of Sumy State University (Ukraine).  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