Media and Commentary

UCL SSEES staff, alumni and students in the media

Coverage from the SSEES community:

March 2023

On 6 March, Dr James Ryan, Visiting Scholar, wrote the article 'After 70 years, Stalin’s shadow still looms over Russia and Ukraine – but Putin is a tyrant in his own right', for The Conversation.
On 3 March, Dr Sasha Dovzhyk, Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Ukrainian, organised the event 'Reading and discussion with Ukrainian writer Kateryna Babkina', at UCL SSEES.
On 2 March, Prof Andrew Wilson, Professor of Ukrainian Studies, discussed the fifth edition of his book “The Ukrainians: The Story of How a People Became A Nation” (Yale University Press, 2022), at the event 'The Ukrainians: The Story of How a People Became A Nation', hosted by RISS.
On 1 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor in Ukrainian and East European Culture, organised the discussion 'Full-scale Resistance: UCL Ukraine Fellows on one year of Russia's all-out war against Ukraine', to mark one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

February 2023

On 23 February, Prof Mark Galeotti spoke at a public event at Corvinus University on the subject of ‘Russia’s war in Ukraine – Predictions and Scenarios’ sponsored by the think tank Political Capital, CEA Hungary and the British Embassy.
On 15 February, Prof Galeotti spoke with host Ryan Ray on 'Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine', for his podcast Inside the War Room.
On 19 February, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in an article published by The Sunday Post on Russia's war on Ukraine, entitled 'Expert: Little sign Putin will end the war or fall victim to Kremlin coup'.
On 12 February, Prof Andrew Wilson moderated the panel 'Rethinking International security, and the legal implications of Russia's War Against Ukraine', hosted by the UCL Ukrainian Society.
On 9 February, Dr Alex Krouglov organised a visit to the BBC Russian Service for students on MA Advanced Russian and MA Intermediate Plus Russian. The students attended the editorial meeting of the Russian Service and met Jenny Norton and Famil Ismailov, who explained how the Russian Service works.
On 6 February, Dr Alex Krouglov, Associate Professor (Teaching) in Russian Language, volunteered and began teaching a 12-week course of Ukrainian for heritage speakers at the Ukrainian Institute in London 2023. More information on the course is available here.
On 5 February Prof Andrew Wilson gave the second lecture entitled 'Russia and Empire'. The third online lecture is entitled 'Is Russia Fascist?', the fourth being 'Russia's Geopolitics Obsession'.
On 5 February, Prof Galeotti published his latest podcast episode 'In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s'.
On 2 February, Dr Rasmus Nilson spoke on the panel 'Rethinking International security, and the legal implications of Russia's War Against Ukraine', hosted by the UCL Ukrainian Society.
On 14 February, Paul Fisher wrote an article entitled 'Putin’s Constitutional Manifesto: Sovereignty, Primacy, Survival' for the International Association of Constitutional law Blog.
On 6 February, Dr David Dalton spoke at the event 'Has the Russian invasion finished off the Ukrainian oligarchy?', hosted by University of Oxford.

January 2023

On 29 January, Prof Andrew Wilson presented his first lecture entitled 'Political Technology in Russia' hosted by UCL Ukrainian Society entitled 'Russia's War Against Ukraine. A course by Andrew Wilson'.
On 25 January, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in an article 'How Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president, went from perceived pro-West reformer to virulent warmonger since the invasion of Ukraine' in Business Insider.
On 21 January, Dr Noble was quoted in the article 'Russian Emigres Rally Worldwide in Support of Jailed Navalny' in The Moscow Times.
On 20 January, analysis by Dr Noble was included in a Tortoise "Sensemaker" piece, including discussion of the prospect of Russian political disintegration as a result of the war on Ukraine.
On 24 December 2022, Dr Noble was quoted in a Le Devoir article on the war.
On 24 January, Dr Uilleam Blacker gave a talk to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day on UCL’s Lunch Hour Lecture series entitled 'Together and apart: remembering Jewish Ukraine in the context of empire and war'. A recording of the lecture is available here.
On 6 January, Dr Uilleam Blacker wrote an article on memory and mourning in relation to Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine, comparing them to the Polish experience of mourning the victims of Stalinism during WWII, entitled 'Historical Perspectives on Russia’s War Crimes in Ukraine' for New Lines magazine.
On 4 January, Dr Olexandra Dovzhyk spoke about Russia’s weaponisation of culture in its war against Ukraine for The Globalist. The full episode is available here. On 14 December, Dr Dovzhyk wrote the opinion piece 'How this Ukrainian fairy tale ends', for CNN.

December

On 20 December, Prof Andrew Wilson was quoted in the article 'Wartime Ukraine erasing Russian past from public spaces', by Dailymail.
On 14 December, Prof Mark Galeotti was one of the special guests in the final episode of the latest series of 'Putin 13. No Way Out?', on BBS Sounds.
On 8 December, Dr Ben Noble chaired the SSEESing NOW event, 'Keir Giles on Russia's War on Everybody', at which Keir Giles – a SSEES alumnus – presented his latest book 'Russia's War on Everybody' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), with Dr Aglaya Snetkov as discussant. A recording of this event is available here. On 6 December, Dr Noble was a discussant for the online book launch, 'The Russian Constitution: A Contextual Analysis', at King's College London.
On 1 December, Prof Mark Galeotti participated in the 'Book event with Mark Galeotti, Author of Putin's Wars', hosted by Centre for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. On 20 November, Dr Galeotti wrote the article 'Now is not the time to talk about peace between Russia and Ukraine', for The Times.

November

On 27 November, Dr Rasmus Nilsson gave his comments in a short segment 'Invading Georgia gave Vladimir Putin rush of confidence to invade Ukraine' on the Russo-Georgian War and its aftermath for ABC News.
On 21 November, Dr Ben Noble published an article, '"Traditional Values" and the Limits of Civic Unity', discussing the Russian political leadership's attempt to maintain an image of social consensus during the country's war on Ukraine. The article was published on Russia.Post.
On 16 November, Prof Mark Galeotti discussed his latest book 'Putin's Wars From Chechnya to Ukraine' (Osprey Publishing 2022) with Ian Masters 'Russia's Future as Putin Clings to Power But His Legend is Dead', on Soundcloud.
On 16 November, Dr Uilleam Blacker was in a discussion with Tetyana Filevska, Cultural Director at the Ukrainian Institute, entitled 'Why is russia so afraid of Ukrainian Culture?'. The event was hosted by the UCL Ukrainian Society.
On 15 November, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in the article 'Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine — atrocity and over-reach', in Financial Times.
On 14 November, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk participated in the online lecture 'Writing History, Narrating War' as part of George Mason University's "Russia's War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective" lecture series.
On 7 November, Prof Mark Galeotti gave a World Review from the New Statesman entitled 'How Putin fights wars, with Mark Galeotti'.
On 4 November, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in a New Statesman article 'Russia strengthens its anti-LGBT legislation in its fight against “Satanism”', on draft legislation in Russia proposing to ban "LGBT propaganda". On the same say, Dr Noble was quoted in a La Croix article entitled 'Russia Rages Against UK' examining the focus of the Russian state on the UK as an adversary.
On 3 November, Dr Uilleam Blacker, participated in the 'Сonference Ukrainian Studies Go Global', organised by the Office of the President of Ukraine.
On 1 November, Dr Olexandra Dovzhyk wrote the review 'Culture as Witness in Ukraine' for The Los Angeles Review of Books. On 31 October, Olexandra moderated the event 'Decolonising Western Coverage of Ukraine' hosted by UCL SSEES and Ukrainian Institute London. On 27 October, Dr Dovzhyk gave an interview from the Ukraine Lab project for The Mechanics' Institute Review.

October

On 31 October, Prof Eric Gordy spoke at the online talk series 'Rebuilding Communities/Reconstructing cities and communities after urbicide in Ukraine', initiated by Center for Urban Studies, National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), Université Libre de Bruxelles, and University of Bologna - TRAME, Center for the Semiotic Study of Memory.
On 30 October, Prof Mark Galeotti published his latest podcast episode 'In Moscow's Shadows 81: A Sampling of the Latest News; and the Russo-Chinese Intelligence Relationship'. On 24 October, spoke at the event ‘Putin and War: How He Sees the World and How this Led to Ukraine’, hosted by the George Washington University. Mark also spoke in the podcast 'The Week Ahead In Russia: Eight Months Since The Invasion', by Radio Free Europe.
On 28 October, Prof Julia Korosteleva took part in the UK Cabinet Office roundtable discussion on Belarus and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
On 28 October, Prof Andrew Wilson wrote the piece 'Ukraine can win the peace' for Engelsberg Ideas.
On 24 October, Prof Mark Galeotti spoke at the event ‘Putin and War: How He Sees the World and How this Led to Ukraine’, hosted by the George Washington University.
On 19 October, Dr Olga Volosova co-authored a short course entitled 'Introduction to Ukrainian Language and Culture', intended for host families and others supporting Ukrainian refugees. The course was created on the initiative of the Open University and is hosted on its OpenLearn website.
On 16 October, Prof Mark Galeotti was one of the speakers on the panel 'Putin’s bloody gamble: will the tyrannical tsar survive his lethal game?', at the Cliveden Literary Festival.
On 15 October, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the piece 'The misconception about Putin’s big red nuclear button' for The Spectator.
On 12 October, Dr Ben Noble, Associate Professor of Russian Politics, gave his comments in the article 'Dmitry Medvedev and all the president’s hawks', for The New Statesman.
On 11 October, Pippa Crawford translated the piece ‘Why mobilisation won’t help Putin win the war in Ukraine’ in Russian, for the BBC Russian Service.
On 10 October, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever’ for Mail Online.
On 8 October, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Why the bridge blast really matters: losing Crimea could finish Putin off’ for The Times.
On 8 October, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the piece ‘How should the West respond to Putin’s threats?’ for The Spectator.
On 6 October, Phoebe Page wrote the opinion piece entitled 'The best antidote to Russia’s disinformation is to listen to Ukrainians', for openDemocracy.
On 4 October, Dr Olexandra Dovzhyk gave an interview for The Monocle Daily.

September

On 29 September, Pippa Crawford translated the piece by Olga Ivshina and Olga Prosvirova '‘It’s like a trap’: How the Russian army holds onto disillusioned contract soldiers', for the BBC Russian Service.
On 28 September, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘The Nord Stream blasts are Putin’s warning shot to the West’, for The Spectator.
On 26 September, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in the interview ‘Putin's doom: Russia expert Mark Galeotti on how a once-feared leader threw it all away’, for Salon.
On 26 September, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the article ‘Anti-war protests in Russia accompany Putin’s “partial mobilisation”’ for The New Statesman.
On 25 September, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Putin knows he can’t win in Ukraine. His only goal now is to save face and stay in power’ for The Times.
On 19 September, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the article ‘Frustrated and Snubbed, Putin Is Running Out of Options’, by Bloomberg UK.
On 17 September, Olesya Khromeychuk wrote he piece ‘Putin’s regime is banking on western Ukraine fatigue’ for Prospect.
On 17 September, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the piece ‘Fear and loathing in the Kremlin, where Putin writhes in his own trap’ for The Times.
On 16 September, Prof Mark Galeotti published his latest podcast ‘In Moscow's Shadows 79: Putin's Dilemmas, on and off the battlefield’.
On 10 September, Dr Michal Murawski was one of the panellists at the symposium ‘The Reconstruction of Ukraine’.
On 5 September, Prof Mark Galeotti published his latest podcast ‘In Moscow's Shadows 78: Organised Labour in a Neoliberal and Authoritarian Russia’.
On 5 September, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the review ‘Why oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky wants us to be optimistic for Russia’, for The Telegraph.
On 2 September, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the piece ‘What the defenestration of Ravil Maganov says about Russia’, for The Spectator.
On 2 September, Dr Sasha Dovzhyk wrote the opinion piece ‘Don’t wake the nuclear giant on our doorstep’ for CNN.
On 1 September, Prof Mark Galeotti published his latest podcast ‘In Moscow's Shadows 77: Gorbachev's Hope vs Putin's Victimhood, a short rumination’.

August

On 30 August, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Gorbachev was no saint. But he was a kind of hero’, for The Spectator.
On 30 August, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the piece ‘Gorbachev was no saint. But he was a kind of hero’, for the UCL Europe Blog.
On 28 August, Prof Mark Galeotti published his latest podcast episode ‘In Moscow's Shadows 76: The Impotence of Power and Giving Liz Truss some options for Narrative Warfare’.
On 27 August, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the piece ‘Russia’s grieving mothers and hawkish generals unite as Putin’s failures turn allies into enemies’ for The Times Newspapers.
On 26 August, Dr Julia Korosteleva had her special section research note ‘The implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the EU energy market and businesses’, accepted for publication in the British Journal of Management.
On 24 August, Dr Uilleam Blacker was featured in the review ‘Ukrainian Cassandras’ published in the London Ukrainian Review, written by Olesya Khromeychuk.
On 24 August, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘The stalemate in Ukraine won’t last forever - Six months in, is the war any closer to ending?’, for The Spectator.
On 23 August, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Spin, spies and a plot that could backfire on the Kremlin’, for The Daily Mail.
On 22 August, Prof Mark Galeotti spoke on BBC Radio 4 World Tonight on "This is Russia, all things are possible".
On 17 August, Dr Kristin Roth-Ey was quoted in the article ‘Putin revives Soviet ‘Mother Heroine’ award for women who have 10 children’, published by The Washington Post.
On 15 August, Prof Mark Galeotti joined in the discussion ‘The Week Ahead In Russia: ‘Final Stage Putin’ And The War In Ukraine’, by Radio Free Europe.
On 1 August, Natalie Sauer spoke in the podcast episode ‘War in Ukraine: the fallout on Russian climate action’, by The Eurasian Climate Brief.

July

On 30 July, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘At his most dangerous and with a political solution now impossible, we’re entering final stage Putin’, published in The Times.
On 28 July, Dr Uilleam Blacker was quoted in the article ‘Standing on your own’: Ukrainian rapper on connecting with his country’s culture’, by The Guardian.
On 18 July, Dr Ben Noble spoke in the discussion ‘Russia now: Censorship. Misinformation. War. What’s Next?’, hosted by the Index on Censorship.
On 14 July, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in the article ‘What Are You Reading?’, by Carnegie Europe.
On 11 July, Prof Mark Galeotti shared his thoughts in the article ‘Putin is not like Hitler, he does not want to see the whole world in flames’, published by The conservative daily Postoj.
On 10 July, Prof Mark Galeotti shared the podcast ‘In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin’.
On 7 July Prof Andrew Wilson wrote the commentary ‘Resilient Ukraine’, for The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI).
On 6 July, Dr Uilleam Blacker spoke at The European Association for International Education Podcast ‘Ukraine through a literary lens’.
On 4 July, Prof Mark Galeotti was in conversation with Anna Arutunyan on the Russia and Ukraine War, via Conversation Six.
On 4 July, Prof Mark Galeotti’s Lithuanian edition of his ‘Short History of Russia’ Penguin Books, 2022 (with coda written after the invasion of Ukraine) was published by Briedis.
On 3 July, Dr Ben Noble and Dmitry Medvedev shared their thoughts in the article ‘Dmitry Medvedev, from moderate president to regime hawk’, published by RFI.
On 2 July, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote a piece entitled ‘Is the West really prepared to pay the price of defeating Putin?’ for The Sunday Times.

June

On 30 June, Dr Uilleam Blacker was quoted in the article ‘Should Russian culture be 'cancelled' over Ukraine war?’, by Euronews Culture.
On 30 June, Uta Staiger and Freya Proudman, wrote the article ‘What can universities do to improve routes into HE for displaced academics?’ for Times Higher Education.
On 29 June, Olesya Khromeychuk moderated the event ‘War crimes and human rights violations in Russia’s war in Ukraine’, hosted by the Ukrainian Institute London.
On 29 June, Pippa Crawford, translated the article ‘Five ways the war in Ukraine is challenging military thinking’ for the BBC Russian Service.
On 27 June, Prof Mark Galeotti, wrote an op-ed 'What Russia’s military shake-up reveals about Putin’s war in Ukraine' for The Spectator.
On 24 June, Vladimir Pastukhov published an op-ed in Russian '«Жить рядом с голодным волком». Кому на Западе выгодна сделка с Россией' in The Moscow Times.
On 21 June, Ella Rossman, participated in 'Russia-Ukraine Dialogues: Russian and Belarusian anti-war movements' organised by LSE IDEAS.
On 20 June, an event 'Taking on Putin: From the Magnitsky Act to Resisting Russia’s War on Ukraine', co-hosted by IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UCL SSEES and the UCL European Institute took place in Bloomsbury Theatre in London. It was chaired by Dr Ben Noble.
On 18 June, Prof Mark Galeotti, wrote an article 'How Russia’s cartoon heroine turned on Vladimir Putin' for The Spectator.
On 17 June, Prof Mark Galeotti, released an episode 'A Miscellany - Being Banned, Putin and Lavrov Speak Out, Divisions in the Elite and Listeners' Questions' of his podscast 'In Moscow's Shadows'.
On 16 June, Vladimir Pastukhov participated in the online discussion in Russian 'КТО И КАК ОСТАНОВИТ ВОЙНУ' on Khodorkovsky YouTube channel.
On 13 June, Prof Mark Galeotti, released an episode 'A Bargain-Basement Empire in the Offing, and Who Is Sergei Kirienko?' of his podscast 'In Moscow's Shadows'.
On 11 June, Prof Mark Galeotti, published a piece 'Putin is no Peter the Great' for The Spectator. He also wrote an article '‘Putin the Great’ and his budget empire can only deliver a fake victory' for The Sunday Times.
On 10 June, UCL Ukrainian Society together with other Ukrainian Student Societies across the UK held a virtual conversation with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A recording is available on UCL's YouTube Channel.
On 9 June, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in an article 'Medvedev: Russia's reforming president turned arch-hawk' published by France 24.
On 6 June, Dr Ben Noble was mentioned in an op-ed 'Putin Can’t Keep Russian Mothers Silent Forever' published by Bloomberg.
On 3 June, Prof Mark Galeotti published an op-ed '100 days of deadlock and bloodshed in a war Putin cannot now win OR lose: PROFESSOR MARK GALEOTTI on why there ultimately has to be a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia' for The Daily Mail.
On 2 June, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke on the current affairs programme 'Morning Ireland' on Ireland's national television and radio broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).
On 2 June, Dr Uilleam Blacker and Dr Olesya Khromeychuk co-authored an essay 'Ukrainian Women Poets: Foreword' for Continental Magazine.

May

On 30 May, Prof Mark Galeotti discused 'Putin's War, Putin's Fate' on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
On 30 May, Prof Dennis Deletant was a guest on The Red Line Podcast that discussed 'Romanian and Moldovan Reunification (A Defence Against Russia?)'.
On 28 May, Prof Mark Galeotti publish an op-ed 'Desperate Putin is deluded to think he can win' in The Telegraph.
On 26 May, Vladimir Pastukhov wrote a piece in Russian 'Владимир Пастухов: "Есть две гипотезы: Путин – это Гитлер и Путин – это Брежнев"' for analytical portal Ava.
On 25 May, Vladimir Pastukhov published a commentary in Russian 'Пастухов: «Напрягает полная невозможность понять реальное положение дел на фронте»' on news and media website Gazetaby.
On 25 May, Dr Uilleam Blacker delivered a keynote address ‘Understanding Culture from Europe’s Edge: the View from Ukraine’ to the European Association for International Education Joint Leadership Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
On 22 May, Vladimir Pastukhov was a guest at a new weekly show 'Very real politics' streamed in Russian on on the XL KhodorkovskyLive YouTube Channel.
On 22 May, Dr Aglaya Snetkov took part in The Listening Post, weekly media programme on Al Jazeera, in the episode 'Israel's disinformation playbook', where she spoke on Zelensky's approach to information during war and contrast with Putin.
On 20 May, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed in Russian 'Политолог Владимир Пастухов: "Мир учится жить без России"' by Latvian news portal Delfi. He was also wrote a piece in Russian 'Пастухов: 5 ошибок Запада, которые привели к войне' for the news portal in Belarus UDF.
On 19 May, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed about Ukraine and information war on ‘Kait Borsay and Chloe Tilley with Times Radio Breakfast’. Dr Snetkov also took part in BBC’s ‘Your Questions Answered’, where she discussed Putin's health, nature of misinformation and how can we manage Russia once the war is over.
On 19 May, Vladimir Pastukhov released a YouTube episode in Russian 'Zhivoy gvozd’ of his programme 'Pastukhov’s Thursday'.
On 17 May, Dr Uilleam Blacker discussed Ukraine’s literary heritage at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies.
On 16 May, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk discussed ‘Ukraine and Russia: The Imagination of a Region’ at an event hosted by SPUI25 / University of Amsterdam.
On 17 May, Dr Ben Noble published ‘Rumours of a coup in Russia: What does this really say about the Putin regime?’ in Riddle.
On 16 May, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed on Monocle 24 Radio’s show ‘The Briefing’.
On 15 May, Vladimir Pastukhov was a guest at a new weekly show 'Very real politics' streamed in Russian on on the XL KhodorkovskyLive YouTube Channel.
On 15 May, Prof Mark Galeotti discussed ‘Could illness make Putin more dangerous?’ on Times Radio.
On 14 May, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote ‘Does Putin have blood cancer?’ for The Spectator.
On 13 May, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk appeared on a panel about 'The Future of Europe in Light of the Russian War against Ukraine' hosted by the Centre for Southeast European Studies.
On 12 May, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in the LA Times articles ‘Putin refuses to waver on east Ukraine; Finland’s leaders endorse NATO bid’ and ‘As Finland’s leaders announce intent to join NATO, Russia issues threats and continues strikes on eastern Ukraine’.
On 12 May, Natalie Sauer, MA student in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics and a French British environmental journalist and English-language editor for The Conversation, who is a co-author of 'The Eurasian Climate Brief' released an episode 'War in Ukraine: can energy transition and security reinforce each other?'.
On 11 May, Dr Aglaya Snetkov participated in a panel ‘Putin's Invasion and the New Great Power Rivalry’ hosted jointly by SSEES and the UCL European Institute.
On 11 May, Dr Ben Noble appeared on the episode ‘Russia's Crackdown on Dissenting Voices’ of the Intelligence Squared podcast.
On 10 May, a recording of the 4 May panel ‘Russia's Politics, Propaganda and Memory’, at which Dr Ben Noble was a speaker, was published.
On 10 May, SSEES alumna Dr Catherine Baker published ‘Even if all roads are destroyed: how Ukraine put itself on Eurovision’s “mental maps”, from 2003 to 2022’ on her blog.
On 10 May, Dr Michał Murawski together with his co-organisers published ‘The Front Runs Through Us’ on the UCL Europe Blog to reflect on their event ‘Decolonising Russia’s War in Ukraine’ (26 March).
On 9 May, Dr Ben Noble was mentioned in the article ‘Putin’s Parades Can’t Hide a Missing Victory’ published by Bloomberg.
On 9 May, Prof Mark Galeotti appeared on the podcast Stories of Our Times for the episode ‘“Victory Day”: Taking stock of Russia’s war’.
On 9 May, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed about ‘Russia’s Victory Day Celebrations’ for TRT World’s show ‘The Newsmakers’. Dr Snetkov also appeared on the segment ‘Putin Shows No Signs of Escalating War With Ukraine: UCL’ for Bloomberg Markets and Finance. She was also interviewed for BBC News.
On 8 May, MA student Leyla Latypova wrote ‘Z-symbols, Fewer Tanks and No Guests: Russia Prepares to Mark Victory Day as Ukraine War Rages’ for The Moscow Times. Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in the article.
On 7 May, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in ‘Putin’s choices filled with peril on eve of Victory Day parade’ in The Guardian.
On 7 May, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote ‘Putin’s going to proclaim a new triumph on Victory Day. Will Russians believe him?’ for The Sunday Times.
On 5 May, Dr Seán Hanley was quoted in ‘Milos Zeman: Is Czech president's remorse genuine over his pro-Russian stance?' published in euronews.
On 5 May, a poem by Lina Kostenko, translated by Dr Uilleam Blacker, appeared as part of ‘Women and war: Stories from the other front’ on CBC Radio.
On 4 May, Prof Andrew Wilson published a commentary ‘Inside the Russian geopolitical mind: Pseudo-justifications behind the war in Ukraine’ for European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
On 4 May, Dr Ben Noble was one of the speakers discussing ‘Russia’s Politics, Propaganda & Memory’ at the event organised by Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC).
On 3 May, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed on ‘Russia and the Nuclear Threat’ in a podcast Atomic Hobo.
On 3 May, Ella Rossman, PhD candidate and coordinator of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance Group, took part in a virtual event 'A conversation with young Russian leaders’ organised by Aspen Institute UK.
On 1 May, Vladimir Pastukhov published a blog in Russian ‘Вопрос для референдума’ on Kasparov.ru website.
On 1 May, Prof Mark Galeotti released an episode ‘Silovik, Nuclear, Criminal and Religious - a Choice of Victories’ of his podcast ‘In Moscow’s Shadows’, available to listen to on all streaming platforms.

April

On 30 April, Dr Uilleam Blacker spoke on ‘L’viv’s Palimpsest of Memory: Considering the Culture of Western Ukraine’ at the event ‘Ukraine Teach in at the Cambridge Union’ organised by Cambridge Union.
On 30 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov gave comments for the article ‘Med deportationer og falske folkeafstemninger søger Rusland at fastholde kontrollen i det sydlige Ukraine’ published by Danish Information.
On 28 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov took part in ‘Your Questions Answered: War in Ukraine’ streamed by BBC News. On 28 April, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote an article ‘Is Putin really willing to go nuclear?’ for The New Statesman.
On 27 April, Dr Rasmus Nilsson spoke with France 24 in the segment ‘Putin “absolutely” intent on ending Ukrainian statehood, “the question is whether he can”’.
On 27 April, Bohdana Kurylo, PhD student, was interviewed on the podcast Diplomatic Academy - The Conversation for the episode ‘Civil Society as a Security Actor in Poland and Ukraine’. On 27 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk spoke on the war and resulting humanitarian crisis in Ukraine at Durham University.
On 26 April, Dr Uilleam Blacker's translation of ‘Poetic, raw and darkly comical. A Ukrainian author shares her war diary’ by Olena Stiazhkina was published by CNN.
On 26 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in Belgian article ‘Calimero met kernwapens: onze man keek een week de Russische staatstelevisie’ published by Knack.
On 26 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk moderated an event ‘”Who told you that I might be weak?” The Stories of Ukrainian Resistance’ at The Ukrainian Institute in London
On 25 April, Ella Rossman, PhD candidate and coordinator of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance Group, published a piece ‘Female face of Russian Anti-war Movement: Why Women Protest?’ on LeftEast website.
On 25 April, Prof Andrew Wilson was part of a SSEES and UCL European Institute panel, ‘War in Ukraine and the Future of Europe’, chaired by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk.
On 25 April, Prof Mark Galeotti appeared on the episode ‘Winning and Losing’ of ‘The Week Ahead In Russia’ podcast by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
On 25 April, Vladimir Pastukhov published a blog in Russian ‘Пастухов: ошибка невыжившего’ on Polit.ru website. Pastukhov was also interviewed and took part in YouTube Q&A session in Russian ‘Владимир Пастухов / #СлухайЭто’ by Zhivoi Gvozd. Pastukhov was also mentioned in Italian article ‘Putin, l’autocrate va a messa, ma sembra una messinscena’ published by La Stampa.
On 24 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk spoke at a discussion on Russia’s war against Ukraine co-hosted by the Cambridge Literary Festival and the Cambridge University Ukrainian Society. On 23 April, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote ‘The interfering tsar: why Putin is Ukraine’s best hope of victory’ for The Sunday Times.
On 23 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in Portuguese article ‘Dois meses de guerra: Um guia sobre a atual fase do conflito’ published by Expresso.
On 22 April, Vladimir Pastukhov was quoted in Russian article ‘Пастухов: Впервые за время «спецоперации» Лавров сказал что-то похожее на правду, а может быть, даже выдал государственный секрет’ [For the first time since the "special operation" begun Lavrov said something akin to the truth, perhaps even a state secret] published by Ex-Press.By. Pastukhov also published a blog in Russian ‘Русский патриархально-домашний колониализм’ [Russian Patriarchic and Patronising Colonialism] on Kasparov.ru website.
On 22 April, Prof Mark Galeotti published the article ‘Why Putin’s “Satanic” missile launch matters’ in The Spectator. Also on 22 April, Prof Galeotti released an episode ‘Fabian Burkhardt on Russia's Elites, Coups and Rumours’ of his podcast ‘In Moscow’s Shadows’ available on all streaming platforms.
On 22 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed on ‘Two months on from invasion, what is Putin's strategy?’ for RTE Radio 1.
On 21 April, Vladimir Pastukhov published a piece in Russian ‘Они могут успешно делать ракеты, но в гуманитарных вопросах остаются питекантропами’ [While they can - literally - handle the rocket science, in humanities they remain in the Stone Age] in 38news.
On 21 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed on Deutsche Welle news. Also, Dr Snetkov appeared on Vox to discuss ‘How “Z” became Putin’s new propaganda meme’.
On 20 April, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed for an op-ed ‘Putin Miscalclated On Military Because He Confused Models Of New Weapons And Rearmament Of Army’ published by Eurasia Review. Pastukhov was also mentioned in Italian article ‘Russia: Putin ha sbagliato i calcoli sull’esercito’ published by L'Indro.
On 20 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was mentioned in the article in Spanish ‘La planta de Azovstal, una fortaleza soviética de túneles subterráneos para la resistencia ucraniana en Mariúpol’ published on elDiario.es website.
On 20 April, Dr Uilleam Blacker's translation of ‘No guilty people in the world?’ by Oksana Zabuzhko was published by The Times Literary Supplement.
On 19 April, Prof Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski gave a special lecture on 'When Geopolitics Meets History: The Contested Inheritance of Rus' in Competing Narratives of Russia and Ukraine' to students of the College of Europe Natolin, Warsaw, Poland.
On 19 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in ‘How big are the forces in the east?’ published by BBC News. On 19 April, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed by Czech Radio Plus about the war in ‘Putin se považoval za strategického génia, i díky tomu se Ukrajinci zatím ubránili, míní Galeotti’.
On 18 April, Prof Andrew Wilson was quoted in the article ‘Putin’s strategy to end the war, according to an expert’ published by Diario AS.
On 18 April, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in Czech article ‘Bez něho není Rusko. Duma se před Putinem koří v ošemetné servilnost’ published on iDnes.cz website.
On 18 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed on Deutsche Welle news in ‘Over the next few days, Mariupol will fall: Political Scientist Aglaya Snetkov’. Dr Snetkov was also quoted in Spanish article ‘Los últimos de la batalla por Mariúpol’ on elDiario.es website.
On 18 April, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed in Russian ‘Дальнейшее сохранение системы приведет к неизбежному распаду страны’ [Further upkeep of the political system will inevitably result in the country’s breakdown] by analytical online magazine Republic. Pastukhov also wrote a blog in Russian ‘Века невежества’ [The Age of ignorance] for Kasparov.ru website.
On 17 April, Vladimir Pastukhov published a commentary in Russian ‘Об отношении русских к войне. Десять оттенков черного’ [One Hundred Shades of Black] on Solidarnost website.
On 17 April, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed on Reaction Life about his recent books. Prof Galeotti was also quoted in the article ‘Válka Ruska s Ukrajinou se potáhne měsíce, možná i roky, říká expert. USA podle něj neví, jak konflikt ukončit’ for Czech news site Lidovky.
On 16 April, Prof Mark Galeotti and Dr Ben Noble were quoted in ‘Kremlin ‘is behind pro-Russian protests in Europe’’ published in The Times. Prof Galeotti also released an episode ‘Dvornikov, Mishustin, Scenarios and Traitors - more about Ukraine’ of his podcast ‘In Moscow’s Shadows’ available on all streaming platforms.
On 16 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed on BBC News about the latest security developments in Ukraine. She was also interviewed on TRT news show ‘Could Ukraine be Chechnya's Kadyrov’s undoing?’.
On 15 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in inews article ‘Moskva sinking ‘will not scupper’ Russia’s strategy, expert says as Ukraine claims ship’s captain was killed’.
On 15 April, Prof Andrew Wilson was interviewed in ‘Exclusive: Vladimir Putin’s next move revealed as Russian President plans May 9 victory day’ by The Daily Mirror.
On 14 April, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed by French media Figaro Vox in ‘La liberté de la Russie ne deviendra possible que si l’Ukraine devient libre’.
On 14 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was part of the debate ‘Wave of setbacks: Russia regroups as Ukraine braces for more bombing’ on France 24. Dr Snetkov was also interviewed on episode ‘Contradictory reports about the Russian warship 'Moskva'’ by Deutsche Welle news.
On 14 April, Prof Mark Galeotti was part of a panel ‘The Struggles of the Russian Military in Ukraine’ hosted by the Council for Foreign Relations. The recording is available to watch on YouTube. Prof Galeotti was also interviewed on the ‘Jak by měl vypadat konec války? Neví to ani sám Putin’ episode of Czech podcast the Checkpoint.
On 14 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk appeared in ‘Ukrainian (and East European) Studies Now. Conversation 1st' hosted by Entangled History of Ukraine / PRISMA UKRAЇNA.
On 13 April, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Putin is devouring his children’ for The Spectator. On 13 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk was interviewed on the ‘Voices from Ukraine’ episode of The Prospect Podcast.
On 13 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted on BBC News’ article ‘If Mariupol falls, what will become of those defending it?’ and in Czech article ‘V Mariupolu se válčí o železo a ocel, dle Moskvy se vzdalo tisíc mariňáků’ published by iDnes.cz .
On 12 April, Dr Rasmus Nilsson was quoted in the article ‘Russia deporting Ukrainians to remote regions is “deeply concerning”’ published by iNews.
On 12 April, Dr Uilleam Blacker was part of a conversation on ‘Ukraine. A European history’ hosted by House of European History.
On 11 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk was a guest speaker at the event ‘Prospect Talks: Ukraine: Voices from the Nation’ held by Prospect Magazine.
On 9 April, Prof Mark Galeotti published ‘Where will Ukraine be in a year? Four scenarios that could end the war’ for The Telegraph.
On 9 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk gave a talk ‘Ukraine: In Defence of the Future’ at Cambridge Fest. On 8 April, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed on the UK in a Changing Europe podcast ‘Brexit and Beyond’.
On 8 April, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk delivered the keynote lecture at the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), entitled ‘Where is Ukraine on the mental map of the academic community?’. The recording is available to watch on BASEES YouTube Channel.
On 7 April, Dr Uilleam Blacker's translation of ‘Phoenix from the Ashes’ by Markiyan Prokhasko was published in apofenie magazine.
On 7 April, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote ‘Good riddance to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russia’s clown prince’ for The Spectator.
On 5 April, Dr Rasmus Nilsson was quoted in the Swiss newspaper Corriere del Ticino on possible consequences inside Russia of the war ‘Il punto E se il dopo Putin fosse Navalny?’.
On 5 April, Dr Dave Dalton spoke about the war in Ukraine with the presenter Lisa Aziz on LBC Radio. On 4 April, Dr Uilleam Blacker was quoted in the German article ‘Der ukrainische Unterschied’ published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
On 4 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov gave her insights on the chances of a peace deal on Scotland Tonight, current affairs programme on STV.
On 3 April, Vladimir Pastukhov wrote a piece in Russian ‘Кремлевские сны о Китае’ published on Kasparov.ru website.
On 3 April, Dr Ben Noble was mentioned in the article ‘Putin’s approval ratings at home have risen since invasion: Poll’ in The Straits Times.
On 3 April, Prof Mark Galeotti was mentioned in a piece ‘Secret intelligence has unusually public role in Ukraine war’ published by Asian news network Channel News Asia (CNA). Prof Mark Galeotti released an episode ‘Terrible Crimes, Terrible Rulers, Terrible Dilemmas’ of his podcast ‘In Moscow’s Shadows’ available on all streaming platforms.
On 2 April, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the article ‘Who has Putin’s ear? Inside the president’s inner circle’ published by The Guardian.
On 2 April, Dr Ben Noble’s book he co-authored with Dr Jan Matti Dollbaum and Morvan Lallouet entitled ‘Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?’ (Hurst, 2021) was mentioned in the article ‘Five books to understand Putin’s Russia and his chances of survival’ published by The Independent.
On 2 April, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed by Popular Politics in Russian ‘ЧЕСТНОЕ СЛОВО С ВЛАДИМИРОМ ПАСТУХОВЫМ | ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ПУТИНА’. He was also interviewed by Khodorkovsky on his YouTube channel in Russian 'Путинизм - его альтернативы и наследие после войны'.
On 1 April, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in Danish article ‘Denne uges fredsforhandlinger har næppe ført os tættere på en løsning: »Der foregår en masse ønsketænkning i Vesten lige nu«’ published by Information.
On 1 April, Prof Mark Galeotti gave a keynote ‘Lessons to be learned from Russia’s Kinetic and Non-Kinetic War in Ukraine’ at the annual symposium organised by Institute of International Relations Prague in Czech Republic. He also wrote an op-ed ‘Echoes of Afghanistan in Russian Soldiers’ Poor Discipline in Ukraine’ for The Moscow Times.
On 1 April, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed in Russian ‘Величие и покаяние’ by Polit.ru website. On 1 April, Dr Ben Noble released Expert Briefing paper ‘SSEES experts on development in the Russia-Ukraine war’. Dr Ben Noble was also mentioned in a Chilean newspaper El Mercurio in the printed article ‘Putin refuerza su imagen en Rusia, pero tensa su relacion con militares y a nivel global’.

March

On 31 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson spoke about the war on BBC Scotland.
On 31 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed in 'Proti Putinovi roste v Rusku odpor. Nahradí ho ti, kdo chtějí doma krást a na Západě utrácet’ by Czech Hospodářské noviny.
On 31 March, Dr Ben Noble was mentioned in a Reuters Special Report ‘Putin targets enemies at home as his missiles strike Ukraine’.
On 30 March, Ada Wordsworth, alumna, wrote a London Review of Books blog about war tourism at the Polish-Ukrainian border ‘In Przemyśl’.
On 30 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker had a journal article ‘Writing around War: Parapolemics, Trauma, and Ethics in Ukrainian Representations of the War in the Donbas’ published by East / West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, volume 9, number 1 (2022).
On 30 March, Dr Thomas Lorman wrote an op-ed ‘Hungarian election: for Viktor Orbán, Ukraine is close but the elections are closer’ for UK in a Changing Europe.
On 30 March, Vladimir Pastukhov published a blog in Russian ‘Расчеловечивание’ on Kasparov.ru website.
On 30 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to Deutsche Welle about the current talks in Turkey, the question of Ukraine's status of neutrality and the state of the Russian army.
On 29 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson spoke about the Ukraine war on Forces News streamed by British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS).
On 29 March, Prof Mark Galeotti took part in the episode ‘An Indispensable Tsar’ of a podcast ‘Putin’ by BBC Radio 4.
On 29 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk moderated a panel of journalists reporting from Ukraine for the Ukrainian Institute London. You can now watch 'Dispatches from Ukraine' on YouTube.
On 29 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov, Dr Allan Sikk, Professor Andrew Wilson, Dr Uilleam Blacker, Dr Ben Noble and Dr Agnieszka Kubal participated in the 'EI-IAS Internal Workshop on the War in Ukraine' hosted by The European Institute and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL.
On 29 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in a piece ‘Popular Russian Blogger Calls for Armed Resistance, Sabotage to Oust Putin’ published on Voice of America (VOA) website.
On 28 March, SSEESing NOW event ‘SSEES experts on development in the Russia-Ukraine war’ took place and is now available to watch online on SSEES YouTube channel. Panel included Dr Aglaya Snetkov, Dr Uilleam Blacker, Dr Agnieszka Kubal, Dr Michal Murawski, Dr Pete Duncan, Ursula Woolley, Dr David Dalton, Bohdana Kurylo and Ada Wordsworth. The event was chaired by Dr Ben Noble.
On 28 March, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed in Russian ‘Когда и чем завершится война в Украине’ by Настоящее Время [Current Time] TV. A video recording is available on their YouTube channel. On 28 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote an article ‘Even Putin’s Praetorian Guard is turning against him’ for The Spectator.
On 28 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk took part in Misha Glenny’s BBC Radio 4 podcast series ‘How to invent a country’.
On 28 March, Dr Ben Noble spoke to Steve Gutterman, Editor of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty In an episode 'Navalny, Putin, And The War At Home’ of the podcast ‘The Week Ahead in Russia’. Dr Noble also spoke on ‘John Pienaar with Times Radio Drive’ podcast by Times Radio (00:38-00:46).
On 28 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to BBC 5 Live Breakfast show regarding Russia's current operation in Ukraine and talk of its operations focusing primarily on Eastern Ukraine/Donbass and what implications this might have for the future (starting at 9.30)
On 27 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to BBC News about President Biden's speech in Warsaw and its wider implications for the Russia-US relations and the war in Ukraine. On 27 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in an article ‘Russian defence minister’s fleeting reappearance adds to mystery’ published by The Financial Times.
On 27 March, Marta Jenkala helped Truro Cathedral Choir in England learn how to pronounce the Ukrainian text of Ave Maria by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. The video recording in available on YouTube.
On 27 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker was reading his translations of Ukrainian poets Maik Yohansen, Lina Kostenko and Iryna Shuvalova at a fundraising gala ‘Poets for Ukraine’ organised in partnership with The Society of Authors, The Poetry Society, The Poetry School and JW3.
On 26 March, Prof Mark Galeotti released an episode ‘Ukraine: A New Strategy, An Absent Shoigu, An Angry National Guard and a Medieval Lithuanian Comparison’ of his podcast ‘In Moscow’s Shadows’ available on all streaming platforms. He was also interviewed in ‘Mark Galeotti: “Per Putin è l’ora più difficile, ma è presto per parlare di golpe al Cremlino”’ by Italian newspaper la Repubblica.
On 26 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed in ‘What does Russia’s strategic shift mean for the further course of the war in Ukraine?’ on Deutsche Welle (DW) News (12:05).
On 26 March, Vladimir Pastukhov published a blog ‘Об "успехах" русской армии в украинской кампании’ [Reflecting on the “success” of the Russian in the Ukrainian Military Campaign] on Russian website Kasparov.ru
On 26 March, a fundraising symposium ‘Decolonising Russia's War on Ukraine: Thinking and Filmmaking on Invasion as a Structure’, co-organised by Vlad Vazheyevskyy, Sasha Shestakova, Anna Engelhardt and Michał Murawski and supported by PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical), the FRINGE Centre for the Study of Social and Cultural Complexity, UCL SSEES and Reference Point took place. A recording is available on YouTube.
On 25 March, Vladimir Pastukhov had his commentary in Russian ‘Возврата к нулевому уровню не будет’ published by media outlet Rosbalt.
On 25 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk co-authored a piece ‘The Nation Ukraine Has Become’ with Sonya Bilocerkowycz published in The New York Review.
On 25 March, Prof Andrew Wilson was one of the guests on ‘Mark Leonard’s World in 30 Minutes’ podcast discussing ‘Ukrainian identity and Russian strategy’. The podcast is curated by Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
On 25 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in ‘Putin’s Kremlin regime ’under serious threat for first time’ as sanctions bite Russia’ published by The Mirror. Prof Galeotti was also interviewed by Bosnian TV channel O Kanal for the show ‘Preko granice’.
On 25 March, Bohdana Kurylo had an online discussion about the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Twitter with Eric Van Rythoven (Carleton University).
On 24 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote a piece ‘Russia’s best and brightest are fleeing Putin’ for The Spectator. He wrote ‘A circular firing squad is forming in the Kremlin, with everyone pointing their guns at each other: Vladimir Putin's regime looks under serious threat for the first time since he came to power’ for The Daily Mail.
On 24 March, Prof Andrew Wilson took part in a panel discussion on ‘Contemporary implications of interpretations of the history of 1991’ at ‘The Baltic contribution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991’, organised by Centre for Geopolitics at University of Cambridge.
On 24 March, Dr Noble was also quoted in ‘Putin Keeps Loyal Inner Circle During Ukraine War Despite Cracks in Support’ in Newsweek.
On 24 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in op-ed ‘The Father of Russia’s Oligarchs Won’t Be the Last to Go’ published by Bloomberg. He was quoted in the article ‘Putin mantiene la lealtad de la élite rusa pese a protestas y sanciones por la guerra en Urania’ by Chilean news network BioBioChile. Also on 24 March, Dr Noble was interviewed live on the CBC News Network With Andrew Nichols TV programme. On 24 March, Vladimir Pastukhov wrote an article in Russian ‘История по-быстрому’ published on Kasparov.ru portal.
On 24 March, The Eurasian Climate Brief, a podcast by Natalie Sauer, a SSEES MA student and environmental journalist, and her two co-hosts, Angelina Davydova (based in St Petersburg) and Boris Schneider (based in Berlin), released an episode ‘Ukraine: The Environmental Impacts of the War’, available on all streaming platforms.
On 23 March, Leyla Latypova together with Isabella Cuomo wrote a piece ‘Fear of Popular Revolutions Drove Putin to Attack Ukraine’ published by The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy.
On 23 March, Vladimir Pastukhov, published a piece in Russian ‘Владимир Пастухов. Операция «Русская хромосома»’ [Introducing «Russian Chromosome» - and what to do with it afterwards] in a Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
On 23 March, SSEES MA student Leyla Latypova published ‘Fear of Popular Revolutions Drove Putin to Attack Ukraine’ in Newlines Institute.
On 23 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker's translation of Olena Stiazhkina's experience living under Russian attack for a second time was published in the CNN Opinion piece ‘”Some of us never unpacked our suitcases”: Putin's refugee crisis didn't start in 2022’.
On 23 March, Dr Ben Noble was interviewed on Brazilian G1 TV ‘Jornal Nacional’ regarding Alexei Navalny’s sentencing.
On 23 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov had her commentary mentioned in the article ‘Face à la Russie, les Etats-Unis entravés par leurs propres lignes rouges’ in Le Monde, a French newspaper.
On 23 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk wrote an article in German ‘Es gibt kaum eine Chance, die Ukraine zu verstehen, wenn man Putins Logik folgt’ in Spiegel.
On 22 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker advised the South Bank Centre on the programme for its ‘Slava Ukraini’ fundraising event on 22 March. His translations of the work of Sofia Andrukhovych, Vasyl Stus, Lina Kostenko and Yulia Musakovska were used during the event, which featured performances by leading Ukrainian musicians and readings from prominent British actors.
On 22 March, Vladimir Pastukhov wrote an article ‘О новом «общественном договоре» между Путиным и населением’ [On the new “public contract” between Putin and the nation] for Russian media outlet ROSBALT.
On 22 March, Prof Mark Galeotti’'s lecture ‘Russian Perceptions of Conflict with Discussion of War in Ukraine’ was published online by the University of Oxford Changing Character of War Centre. On 21 March, Prof Galeotti spoke on BBC Sounds ‘The Court of Putin’.
On 22 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk performed at the ‘Slava Ukraini’ fundraising event put on by the Ukrainian Institute. An essay by Sofia Andrukhovych which was translated by Dr Uilleam Blacker, was also performed.
On 22 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the AFP article ‘Putin keeps loyalty of Russian political elite despite outcry’
On 22 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker spoke on The Gateway podcast episode ‘Vladimir Putin's Abuses of History’ On 22 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke on Monocle 24 Radio’s show ‘The Globalist’ regarding the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. Also on 22 March, Dr Snetkov was interviewed on the Sky News ‘Daily’ podcast about the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
On 22 March, Prof Andrew Wilson was mentioned in a blog ‘Identity politics at play in the Russo-Ukrainian Crisis’ on Future for Advanced Research and Studies (FARAS) website, which is an independent think tank found in Abu Dhabi.
On 21 March, Ursula Woolley wrote an article ‘Ukraine and Putin’s Post-Soviet Imperialism’ for the March issue of Political Insight, volume 13, issue 1, 2022.
On 21 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson participated in a discussion on '"War in the 2020": What can we learn from Ukraine?' hosted by Project for the Study of the 21st Century (PS21) and King's College London War Studies Society. An audio recording is available.
On 21 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed on ‘The Week Ahead in Russia’ podcast for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
On 21 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov together with Dr Marc Lanteigne (University of Tromso, Oslo) wrote an article ‘Ukraine War: Why China is not yet bailing out Russia’ in The Economic Times.
On 20 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in ‘Ukraine peace talks? Be sceptical says expert in Russian politics’ in The Sunday Post.
On 20 March, Prof Mark Galeotti published a commentary ‘How Vladimir Putin failed to learn the lessons of Leningrad: As haunting pictures show history repeating itself, Professor Mark Galleoti examines Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine’ in The Daily Mail. He also wrote an article ‘Why is Putin firing a hypersonic missile in Ukraine?’ for The Spectator. Prof Galeotti was interviewed on Dutch news VPRO programme Buitenhof on ‘What is Putin’s plan?’
On 20 March, Vladimir Pastukhov wrote a piece in Russian ‘Приглашение к дальнейшей агрессии’ [An invitation to further aggression] for a website Kasparov.ru.
On 19 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote an article ‘Peace, partition or stalemate: three ways this unravelling war will end’ for The Sunday Times.
On 19 March, Prof Galeotti wrote the commentary ‘Power-broker or pariah, in Putin's mind Russia is always one or the other’, published in The Telegraph.
On 19 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to LBC News regarding China's role in the Russia's war in Ukraine
On 19 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk was interviewed by Channel 4 about Russia’s history with Ukraine.
On 18 March, Dr Snetkov (together with Dr Marc Lanteigne) published ‘Ukraine: why China is not yet bailing out Russia’ in The Conversation.
On 17 March, Dr Snetkov was interviewed on BBC programme The Briefing Room for the segment ‘Russia's invasion: what could a peace deal look like?’. Dr Snetkov was also mentioned in the British International Studies Association roundup: ‘Best of the fortnight – 18 March
On 18 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in the article ‘Loputtoman sodan aika’ published by Finnish newspaper Helsingen Sanomat.
On 18 March, SSEES Society President and current MA student, Freya Proudman, was interviewed by EU Neighbours East about the SSEES donation drive in the article: #IstandWithUkraine: The story of Freya
On 17 March, Vladimir Pastukhov has his interview ‘“Zolang Poetin aan de macht is, zullen we geen vrede kennen”, zegt Russisch politoloog die oorlog jaren geleden voorspelde’ published in a Dutch-language newspaper based in Belgium called Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN). Pastukhov also released another episode of his weekly YouTube commentary ‘Pastukhov’s Thursdays’.
On 17 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to BBC World News Newsday programme about the current negotiations between Ukraine and Russia and the prospects for a ceasefire.
On 17 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the article ‘Here’s what experts heard in Vladimir Putin’s speech about “cleansing” Russia of “traitors”’, published by the Toronto Star.
On 17 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote ‘Putin’s totalitarian turn’, published in The Spectator. Also on 17 March, Prof Galeotti was interviewed on Monocle 24 Radio’s show ‘The Briefing’.
On 17 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker spoke at PPV event ‘Babyn Yar: Architecture, Memory and Politics in Ukraine’.
On 16 March, Prof Andrew Wilson together with Pavel Slunkin (ECFR) wrote an article ‘How to train your dictator: Putin’s control over Lukashenka’ published by European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
On 16 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke with France 24 about Russian media for the segment ‘Russia's crackdown on media: “Until Russia's war in Ukraine, you did have independent press”’.
On 16 March, Dr UiIleam Blacker was mentioned in the article ‘Higher education now must bring policy on refugees in from the fringes’ published by the Higher Education Policy Institute.
On 16 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted by Express for the article ‘Vladimir Putin facing MUTINY as he rows with his own spies – fraying president on ropes’.
On 16 March, Vladimir Pastukhov has his interview 'Už to není Putinova válka, ale válka Rusů, říká ruský politolog a vypočítává chyby Západu' published in the Czech news portal Deník N.
On 15 March, Prof David Moon, Honorary Professor, spoke to students about the Russian invasion of Ukraine at Teesdale School and Sixth Form, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham.
On 11 March, Prof Moon spoke on 'Central Asian Perspectives' at 'Symposium on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine' organised by Dr Robert Dale at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
On 15 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the article ‘His women, war lies and life as a world stage pariah — who is Sergey Lavrov?’ published in the Evening Standard
On 15 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson was quoted in iNews article ‘How Russia’s fake claims about Ukraine bioweapons spread from Telegram anti-vaxxers to Fox News’.
On 15 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote the article ‘Vladimir Putin is not a man who likes to compromise’ for The Daily Mail. Also on 15 March, Prof Galeotti was interviewed on radio show ‘Nessun Luogo è Lontano’ for Italian news channel Radio 24 News.
On 15 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker translated Sofia Andrukhovych and Olena Stiazhkina for the article ‘Day 5, Day 9, Day 16: Responses to the Invasion of Ukraine’, published by the London Review of Books.
On 15 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker and Prof Andrew Wilson spoke in the webinar ‘”They Want to Erase our History”: Ukraine and Ukrainianness in the Crosshairs’ hosted by Central European University.
On 15 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed live by LBC TV about Marina Ovsyannikova's protest on Russian TV.
On 15 March, Dr Agnieszka Kubal chaired a SSEESing Now event on the Ukrainian refugee crisis – Eastern Europe and beyond
On 14 March, Jakob Hauter, PhD candidate, published a commentary in German ‘Putins Angriff auf die Ukraine und die erzwungene Rückkehr zur Logik des Kalten Krieges‘ on the war in Ukraine for Ukraine-Analysen, an analytical online publication run by the University of Bremen.
On 14 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to The Monocle for The Globalist podcast about the latest developments in Ukraine. She also took part in a panel event for The Conversation: What next for Ukraine, Russia and the world? Also on 14 March, Dr Snetkov was quoted in ‘What does the ‘Z’ symbol mean? ‘Z’ symbol explained and how Russia is silencing its anti-war critics’ published in iNews. She was also interviewed by France 24 on the fightings outside Kyiv and the recruitment of "volunteers" from Syria.
On 14 March, Vladimir Pastukhov, wrote a piece in Russian 'Последняя гражданская война' [The last civil war: what invading Ukraine means for the future of Russia] published by the Important Stories magazine.
On 13 March, former UCL SSEES student Isobel Koshiw wrote ‘Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages’ for The Guardian. On 13 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson gave an interview to Danish television TV2 News on Volodymyr Zelensky and his political importance.
On 13 March, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in ‘Can Looming Western Isolation Erode Russia’s Public Support for Putin?’ in The London Globalist.
On 13 March Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed on BBC News and also wrote ‘The West needs to prepare for guerrilla war in Ukraine’ for The Spectator. Prof Galeotti was also interviewed for SAGE: The Focus podcast episode ‘War in Ukraine & What Comes Next’.
On 12 March, Prof Galeotti wrote ‘Could Putin and Russia really lose the war with Ukraine?’ for The Times and ‘Is Russia Becoming a Dictatorship?’ for The Spectator.
On 12 March Dr Ben Noble was quoted in Norwegian NRK Nyheters news article ‘Crème de la Kreml’. On 13 March, Dr Noble was quoted in ‘Can Looming Western Isolation Erode Russia’s Public Support for Putin?’ in The London Globalist.
On 12 March, Dr Rachel Morley was mentioned in the article ‘We’re going to see an exodus from Russia to Hollywood’ by Shirley Li in The Atlantic.
On 12 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was quoted in the article ‘How the letter Z has become a symbol of support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine’ for CBC. She also spoke to France 24 regarding the latest security developments around Kyiv and Russia's broad strategy in Ukraine.
On 11 March, SSEES PhD student Yuri Bender was interviewed on BBC radio show ‘5 Live Breakfast’ to discuss the Ukrainian community in the UK and its response to the war.
On 11 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson gave an interview to Danish television ‘TV2 News’ on Moldova’s situation in the current crisis. Dr Nilsson was part of a panel at the Institut français UK following its screening of the film ‘The Earth is Blue as an Orange’. On 11 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker published the article ‘Ukrainian Tales’ in History Today.
On 11 March, Dr Ben Noble appeared on ABC News program ‘The World’ to discuss protests in Russia and media coverage of the war in Ukraine.
On 11 March, Dr Ben Noble was also quoted in the Evening Standard article ‘Who is Sergei Lavrov? Russia’s Foreign Minister and Vladimir Putin’s No1 mouthpiece’.
On 11 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in ‘Behind mysterious woman spreading Putin's lies: Russian weapon of choice in propaganda war’ published by Express. He was quoted in “Putin’s red (lipstick) army: the women tasked with spreading Russia’s narrative” in The Telegraph.
On 11 March, Prof Mark Galeotti also wrote ‘How Putin could be removed from power – and who would replace him’ for The Telegraph.
On 11 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke to Bloomberg news on the latest developments in Russia and the economic fallout as a result of the war in Ukraine.
On 10 March, Prof Maria Rubins published a blog ‘The Price of Conformism: Do all Russians deserve the sanctions?’ for The Times of Israel.
On 10 March, Vladimir Pastukhov was quoted in ‘Putin the Gambler’ published by Foreign Affairs magazine.
On 10 March, Joe Ford, MA Student, published a blog ‘Let him not be mad – why the narrative that Putin has “lost it” is unhelpful and dangerous’ for the SSEES Post Soviet Press Brief.
On 10 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker wrote ‘What Ukrainian Literature Has Always Understood About Russia’ for The Atlantic. He was also mentioned in The New York Times article ‘An Urgent Mission for Literary Translators: Bringing Ukrainian Voices to the West’. Also, Dr Blacker's translation of Oleg Sentsov's Life Went on Anyway was mentioned in the NYTimes article 'Recent Ukrainian Writing'.
On 9 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker and Dr Rasmus Nilsson were panelists at UCL’s The Department of European & International Social & Political Studies student event on the war in Ukraine.
On 9 March, Dr Ben Noble was interviewed by Norwegian TV news station NRK Nyheters on the show ‘Urix’.
On 9 March, Prof Mark Galeotti spoke about the Russian military on Monocle 24 Radio’s ‘The Briefing’. Prof Galeotti was also interviewed by Karolina Toreniewska for Polish news site EURACTIV.pl in the article ‘Galeotti: Wojna w Ukrainie to początek końca Putina’. He was also quoted in ‘How Russian mothers could change the course of the war’ published by The Telegraph.
On 9 March, Dr Blacker translated two texts from Ukrainian writers for the Los Angeles Review of Books article ‘“Impossible to Imagine Just a Few Days Ago”: The War from Kharkiv and Uzhhorod’.
On 9 March, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed by a German radio BR24 in the article ‘Wofür das Z-Symbol im Ukraine-Krieg steht’. He was also quoted in the latest French magazine Society.
On 9 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk appeared on BBC’s Question Time for a Ukraine Special episode.
On 8 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk was interviewed live on CNN by Christiane Amanpour about Ukrainian women’s experience of war. She also addressed The British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union regarding the humanitarian situation for Ukraine’s civilians. Dr. Khromeychuk also spoke with German radio show WDR 3 Kultur.
On 8 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson was mentioned in Danish newspaper Berlingske for the articles ‘Putin smed oligarkerne på porten. Men blot for at indsætte sine egne: »Han regerer gennem korruption«’ and ‘Han flygtede ud af landet med sit folks penge. Nu blander han sig i krigen i sit fødeland’.
On 8 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke about the ‘Z’ symbol on Radio BBC 5’s ‘5 Live Breakfast’. She also appeared on BBC local radio stations (NEWCASTLE, HUMBERSIDE, ULSTER, LEICESTER LIVE, SOMERSET LIVE, CUMBRIA LIVE) discussing latest developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine and the ‘Z’ symbol. Dr Snetkov talked about the latest developments in Russia’s security operations on the ground in Ukraine on BBC News channel. She was also quoted in Czech daily newspaper Deník in the article ‘Novodobá svastika? Označení ruských jednotek? Co znamená záhadné písmeno „Z"’.
On 8 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker appeared on Radio BBC 5's ‘Nihal Arthanayake' program.
On 8 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker and Prof Andrew Wilson were speakers at Central European University’s event ‘’They want to erase our history’: Ukraine and Ukrainianness in the Crosshairs’.
On 8 March, Dr Ben Noble wrote a commentary: Commentary: Does domestic pressure within Russia pose a threat to Putin's regime’ for CNA (Channel News Asia) He was quoted in the article in Spanish entitled ‘Los 'silovik', los amigos íntimos de Putin que pilotan la guerra desde el Kremlin’ published in online newspaper elDiario. He was also quoted in The American Conservative in the article ‘The War in Russia’.
On 8 March, Prof Mark Galeotti gave a talk on ‘’War’ vs ‘Conflict’: Changing Russian Perceptions between the military and the civilian security establishment’ at an event organised by University of Oxford, Changing Character of War Centre. Prof Mark Galeotti was also mentioned in ‘Putin is rattled! Dream of ‘lightning war’ turning into ‘nightmare’ after ‘abrupt U-turn' on The Daily Express website.
On 7 March, Dr Agnieszka Kubal gave an interview for the Evening Standard Daily podcast, The Leader, discussing the refugee crisis in the episode ‘Families open homes to beat Ukraine refugee traffickers’.
On 7 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov appeared on 5 News (Channel 5). She also spoke on Radio 4’s ‘PM’ news programme, discussing the Z symbol (c.17.53) and was interviewed for an article ‘Ivan Kuliak: Why has ‘Z’ become a Russian pro-war symbol?’ published by BBC News.
On 7 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was interviewed live on current affairs programme ‘Scotland Tonight’ on STV network. He also wrote an op-ed ‘Vladimir Putin’s dream has become a nightmare...How long before his generals start thinking the only way out of this mess is to get rid of the man who created it’ for The Daily Mail.
On 7 March, Dr Ben Noble gave comments in the opinion piece ‘Vladimir Putin's goodbye will be a long one’ for Bloomberg. Dr Noble was also interviewed for a Q&A piece: ‘What will Putin do next?’ for The Daily Mirror. He was also quoted in The FT for an opinion piece (by Gideon Rachmnan), titled ‘Russia is once again behind an iron curtain' and also mentioned in the article ‘Vladimir Putin’s Goodbye Will Be a Long One’ in The Washington Post.
On 6 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker and Prof Andrew Wilson featured in the Channel 4 Documentary, ‘Zelenskyy: The Man Who Took on Putin’
On 6 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed by FRANCE 24 regarding Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. She also spoke on ‘ITV News at Ten’ streamed by ITV about Russia’s clamp down on independent media.
On 6 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov spoke on ‘ITV News at Ten’ streamed by ITV about Russia’s clamp down on independent media.
On 6 March Dr Ben Noble gave comments in the article ‘The siloviki strongmen: Inner circle have Putin’s ear but what are they saying and is he listening?’ for The Sunday Post.
On 6 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk was quoted in op-ed ‘Why Putin is obsessed with Ukraine and Russia being ‘one people’’ published by Julian Evans in The Telegraph.
On 5 March, Ursula Woolley, PhD candidate, was quoted in the article 'What I learnt from dinner with Volodymyr Zelensky' published in The Financial Times. On 5 March, Vladimir Pastukhov wrote a piece in Russian ‘Путин готовит «свинство», но косит на Беловежскую пущу: сценарии апокалипсиса’ for an independent website Poligon.
On 5 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote an article ' How does Putin extract himself from this nightmare of his own making?’ for The Sunday Times.
On 5 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson spoke to Danish television TV2 News on Russia’s war in Ukraine. On 5 March, Dr Ben Noble spoke about domestic Russian opposition to the war in Ukraine (from 01:52:50 to 01:57:35) on LBC Radio.
On 4 March, Dr Rasmus Nilsson spoke to Slovenian Radio Student as part of a segment on Russia’s war in Ukraine
On 4 March, Prof Andrew Wilson gave comments in the article ‘Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant fire - everything you need to know as Russians shell facility’ in The Mirror. On 4 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov gave commentary in the article ‘Russia Ukraine war: Seven possible ways to end invasion from diplomacy to assassination' for The Mirror.
On 4 March, Dr Ben Noble wrote an article ‘Ukraine: Russian opposition to the invasion is giving Putin cause for alarm’ for The Conversation.
On 4 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was a guest on an hour-long BBC Radio 5’s programme ‘Chiles on Friday’ where she discussed the latest developments on Ukraine and in Russia. Dr Snetkov also spoke on BBC Radio 4's PM news programme discussing the clampdown on independent media in Russia.
On 4 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk gave a commentary on the podcast ‘Chopper’s Politics’ by The Telegraph in the episode ‘To Ukraine, with love’.
On 3 March, Prof Andrew Wilson released a video commentary ‘Putin’s War: Universal Sympathy for Ukraine Will Force Russia to Change its Tactics’ for The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
On 3 March, Prof Mark Galeotti published a commentary ‘Do sanctions and soft power really work?’ in The New Statesman. Prof Galeotti was also one of the guests on podcast ‘The Globalist’ by Monocle 24 in the episode ‘The latest from Ukraine’.
On 3 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker and Dr Rasmus Nilsson were speakers at the event ‘Russia-Ukraine Panel: Past, Present and Future?’, organised by UCL Government and Politics Society.
On 3 March, Dr Ben Noble's commentary was included in ‘Putin’s past actions point to his sharpening authoritarianism’ published on Coda Story website.
On 3 March, Dr Ben Noble and Prof Mark Galeotti were quoted in the article ‘Ukraine conflict: Who’s in Putin’s inner circle and running the war?’ published by BBC News.
On 2 March, Vladimir Pastukhov was interviewed live in Russian by RTVi. The recording is available on YouTube (3:19:52). He was also mentioned in Le Temps, a Swiss French daily newspaper, in the analysis article ‘Vladimir Poutine, le grand isolement’.
On 2 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk wrote a commentary in the op-ed ‘’He has decided to destroy the whole world’: Six global voices on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine’ published by CNN. She was also quoted in ‘Ukrainian Catholic bishop warns British people to avoid disinformation about war’ published by The Independent. Dr Khromeychuk also joined a podcast ‘The Europeans Podcast’ in the episode ‘Army Boots’.
On 2 March, Dr Michael Spence, UCL President & Provost, released a statement on behalf of UCL ‘Responding to the war in Ukraine’.
On 2 March, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk spoke on BBC Radio 4’s programme ‘The World Tonight’ (41:24).
On 2 March, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote a commentary ‘Let us show ordinary Russians what freedom looks like’ in The Times. Prof Galeotti was also quoted in ‘Sanctioned Banks and a Sinking Ruble Are Upending Russian Expat Finances’ by Bloomberg.
On 2 March, Freya Proudman, SSEES Student President, talked about the donations the SSEES Student Society has been doing for refugees of Ukraine.
On 1 March, Prof Andrew Wilson was interviewed in 'Russia Ukraine War: All your questions answered as experts predict what may happen next' by The Daily Mirror.
On 1 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov was interviewed and cited in ‘Guerre en Ukraine : qui sont les hommes qui entourent Vladimir Poutine?’ published by French Le Parisien on the subject of the key personalities central to the Putin regime.
On 2 March, SSEES was included in the article ‘How to help the people of Ukraine if you’re living in London’ published by Time Out and in ‘Donations for Ukraine: UK Drop-off points and the most useful items to give’ published by The Independent.
On 1 March, SSEES was mentioned in 'Where in London to donate clothes, food and toiletries for Ukraine' published by Metro and in the article ‘How can I help Ukraine? 20 drop-off donation points around the UK and 7 charity campaign ‘ published by Country Living.
On 1 March, Vladimir Pastukhov published an article in Russian ‘Пять стратегических ошибок Путина и их главные последствия для России’ [Five strategic mistakes of Putin and what do they mean for Russia] on Echo of Moscow website.
On 1 March, Freya Proudman, MA in Comparative Russian & Eurasian Politics, participated in a video initiative in her capacity as The Young European Ambassador condemning war and expressing solidarity with Ukraine.
On 1 March, Yale Books published 'Russia-Ukraine: A Reading List' with relevant free extract of each book published by Yale University Press. The following mentioned books by SSEES academics include 'The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation' by Prof Andrew Wilson (2015), 'The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia' by Prof Mark Galeotti (2019) and 'The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War' by Prof Mark Galeotti (2022)
On 1 March, Prof Mark Galeotti was quoted in the article 'Why Vladimir Putin is losing the Ukraine propaganda war' published by The Week. Prof Galeotti was also interviewed in 'Botoxový Putin sedí v bunkri a Zelenskyj sa prechádza po uliciach' by Slovak newspaper Pravda. He was also mentioned in 'The 'Wagner' dogs of war ordered to kill or capture the president' in the Irish Daily Mail.
On 1 March, Dr Uilleam Blacker's translation of 'Life Went On Anyway' by Oleg Sentsov (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2019) was included in '11 Ukrainian books available in English translation' published by Book Riot, an independent literary site in North America.
On 1 March, Dr Aglaya Snetkov gave a short explainer on Putin's motivations for '5 Live Breakfast' on BBC Radio 5.

February

On 28 February, Anna Oliinyk, MA Post-Soviet Politics Student and Chevening Scholar, and Leyla Latypova, IMESS Politics & Security Student, were interviewed in the 'Evening News' (3:05) by BBC London.
On 28 February, Prof Mark Galeotti discussed the latest developments on 'World Review' podcast by The New Statesman in the episode 'Is the war with Ukraine the beginning of the end for Putinism?'. He also wrote an article ‘A bunch of thugs so vicious they filmed themselves torturing, dismembering and then setting fire to a Syrian army deserter: Professor Mark Galeotti on the mercenary squad ‘tasked with assassinating Zelensky and 23 other Ukrainian leaders’ for The Daily Mail and a piece 'Putin's propaganda machine is breaking down' for The Spectator. Prof Galeotti was also a guest at the podcast 'The Global Agora' in the episode 'Mark Galeotti: The best what can Russia hope for in Ukraine is the Afghanistan scenario', hosted by the Slovak journalist Andrej Matisak. Prof Mark Galeotti was also quoted in the article ''He has changed': Putin's words and actions raise questions about his rationality' published by RadioFreeEurope / RadioLiberty.
On 28 February, UCL Europe Blog published a piece 'UCL analyses of Russia's war on Ukraine' which includes short commentaries by UCL academics and other experts. SSEES's voices include Dr Uilleam Blacker, David Dalton, Prof Mark Galeotti, Jakob Hauter, Dr Ben Noble, Dr Rasmus Nilsson, Dr Aglaya Snetkov and Prof Andrew Wilson.
On 28 February, Dr Thomas Lorman wrote a piece 'Viktor Orbán has played a perfect game with Putin' in The Spectator.
On 28 February, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk took part in a discussion 'All women in the Ukrainian parliament are armed and ready to take up weapons' on BBC Woman's Hour radio programme by BBC Radio 4. Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, was one of the speakers at 'What can the West do to help Ukraine?' organised by openDemocracy. You can watch the recording on YouTube.
On 28 February, Prof Andrew Wilson was quoted in the article 'Terrifying arsenal: How Putin has amassed a staggering SIX THOUSAND nuclear weapons that could reach UK in 20 minutes' by The Sun.
On 27 February, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote a piece 'War in Ukraine has divided Putin's court' for The Spectator and released another episode of his podcast 'In Moscow's Shadows' entitled 'Ukraine: Nuclear Options, National Morale, and How Kyiv Can Save Moscow'.
On 27 February, Prof Mark Galeotti with Prof Geoffrey Hosking, Emeritus Professor of Russian History, were quoted in the Spanish article 'Cómo nació Ucrania y cuáles han sido sus vínculos históricos con Rusia' on BBC News website.
On 27 February, Dr Aglaya Snetkov provided a commentary on the situation on ITV News: Special Update (59:48). Dr Snetko also appeared on TV programme 'Good Morning Britain' on ITV discussing the latest developments in Ukraine. She also spoke on the 'World Tonight' for CNA about the war in Ukraine.
On 27 February, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in the article in Spanish 'Perfil: Vladimir Putin, el exagente de la KGB que tiene temblando al mundo' for El Tiempo, Colombian newspaper. On 26 February, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote a piece 'How Vladimir Putin's shrinking inner circle led to the invasion of Ukraine' for The Telegraph.
On 26 February, Dr Aglaya Snetkov talked on LBC radio news regarding the current situation in Ukraine.
On 25 February, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk wrote an op-ed 'My Ukrainian brother was killed on the frontline - he was right when he said this is a European War' in Metro.
On 25 February, Prof Mark Galeotti published an op-ed 'Love Bombing Moscow' in The Moscow Times. On 25 February, an episode with Prof Mark Galeotti as a guest at the podcast ‘Off Script’ by The Telegraph was released. The recording is available on the main streaming platforms and also on YouTube channel entitled ‘Ukraine’s guerilla warfare could topple Putin’.
On 25 February, Dr Uilleam Blacker took part in the radio programme by BBC Radio 4 'The World Tonight' where he spoke on 'Past and Present of Kyiv' (38:00). He was also mentioned in 'Renowned works of Ukrainian literature you can read in English' on the online portal News Nine and interviewed by the Czech news portal Lidovky in the article entitled 'Jestli si Putin myslí, že Ukrajinci prostě přijmou ruskou nadvládu, šeredně se mýlí, míní britský expert'. On 25 February, Anton Korchagin, History, Politics & Economics Student and President of UCL Ukrainian Society, was quoted in the article 'Ukrainians living in Britain tell of fears for their family and call for more sanctions as they protest against Russia's invasion: photos' on the news website Business Insider.
On 25 February, Prof Frank Sysyn, alumnus and Head of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Toronto Office, was one of the speakers at the roundtable 'Russia's war against Ukraine: What is at stake?' organised by the University of Alberta, Canada.
On 24 February, Prof Andrew Wilson was quoted in 'Kiev of Kyiv? The politics behind a war-torn name' published by The Telegraph.
On 24 February, Prof Mark Galeotti published a piece 'Putin is deluded if he thinks Ukraine will quickly fold' for The Spectator and also an article 'Isolated, paranoid, deluded. But Vladimir Putin isn't a mad despot...he's evil' for The Daily Mail.
On 24 February, Prof Mark Galeotti and Prof Andrew Wilson were interviewed for the articles 'Clampdown on Russian-owned London homes could see 'substantial' money moving out of the UK' and 'How Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to increase London food prices and energy bills' published by a news website MyLondon. Professors were also included in the list 'Understanding the Ukraine Crisis: A Comprehensive Reading List' published by Henrikas Bliudzius, a book buyer for Waterstones Gower Street, published by Literary Hub, a literary website.
On 24 February, Dr Rasmus Nilsson was interviewed with ICEUR-Vienna, an independent and non-partisan think tank that elaborates policy-relevant analytical materials and provides strategic intelligence for business, politics, and science.
On 24 February, Vladimir Pastukhov, Honorary Research Associate, was quoted in the article 'Ukraine Invasion: Putin has overtly violated Minsk Accords, so what lies ahead?' published by The Quint, news and opinion website.
On 23 February, Dr Olesya Khromeychuk was interviewed in 'Ukrainians in UK making plans to return home to take up arms' published by The Guardian.
On 23 February, Prof Mark Galeotti wrote 'Is Vladimir Putin mad, brilliant or somewhere in between?' for The Telegraph.
On 22 February, Prof Mark Galeotti was a guest at a podcast 'The Week Ahead in Russia' of the episode 'Tensions In The Donbas, A Trial (Again) For Navalny'.
On 17 February, Dr Ben Noble was quoted in a Bloomberg Opinion article on Vladimir Putin's role in the ongoing crisis centring on Ukraine, 'For Putin, Disquiet is the New Quiet'. Dr Noble was also quoted on the same day in an NBC News article on Putin's decision-making regarding coronavirus and the role of (long) tables in meetings with foreign leaders, 'Not Just for Memes: What Putin's Comically Long Tables Tells Us About Russia's Inner Workings'.
On 15 February, Dr Uilleam Blacker published UCL Europe Blog entitled 'Far from Paris: Ukrainian Literature and Independence'.

SSEES Academics providing commentary:

Dr Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor in Comparative Culture of Russia & Eastern Europe
Prof Mark Galeotti, Honorary Professor
Dr Agnieszka Kubal, Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Rasmus Nilsson, Lecturer in Russian Foreign and Security Policy
Dr Ben Noble, Associate Professor in Russian Politics
Dr Aglaya Snetkov, Lecturer in the International Politics of Russia
Dr Tom Lorman, Lecturer in Modern Central European History
Prof Andrew Wilson, Professor of Ukrainian Studies

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