Russian Cultural Diplomacy under Putin (eBook)

Nadiia Koval studied Political Science and International Relations in Kyiv, Warsaw, and Paris. Since 2021, she is Head of Research and Analysis at the Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv and a Lecturer at Kyiv School of Economics. Previously, she was Director of the Centre for International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and Head of Central and West European Studies at the Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism." Koval is a member of the International Studies Association. Her chapters have been published in Interpretations of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict in Western Academic and Analytical Discourse (IPiEND 2020) and Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict: The Case of Ukraine (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and her papers in Problems of Post-Communism and The Ideology and Politics Journal. Denys Tereshchenko studied Political Science, Public Policy, and Comparative History in Kyiv and Vienna. In 2021-2023, he has been an analyst at the Ukrainian Institute of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, Tereshchenko was a national minorities expert at the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Consciousness. His papers on political science have been published by The Ideology and Politics Journal and the School for Political Analysis of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.