“Ukrainians delegitimized the old narratives about Russia that had been present in Germany”

Our next episode of Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features Andreas Umland, a political scientist specializing in contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history, regime transitions, and a wide range of topics in post-Soviet studies. His extensive body of work spans diverse subjects, including research on the post-Soviet extreme right, European fascism, East European geopolitics, Russian nationalism, and others. Mr. Umland holds the position of Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv and serves as a dedicated research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. Based in Kyiv, he also works as an Associate Professor of Politics at the esteemed National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others is a special series aimed at highlighting the perspective of international journalists, researchers, analysts, and experts from different fields on the Russian war against Ukraine.

Interviewer: Julia Tymoshenko (https://instagram.com/yulia_tymosha)

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00:00 Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features Andreas Umland
01:15 – How Andreas got interested in studying Ukraine
03:50 – The rise of the Russian far right
07:50 – Dugin and Russia’s policy towards Ukraine
09:37 – The role of Russian society in the war against Ukraine
14:58 – Putin’s authority inside Russia
15:30 – Perception of Navalny
22:00 – Collective responsibility of Russian people
25:00 – Decolonizing academia
32:11– How Ukrainian academia can build connections with international institutions
37:37 – Ukraine in Swedish foreign policy
42:59 – German’s history of ties to Russia
48:50 – How and why German’s policy towards helping Ukraine shifted
51:54 – Why Germany should do more for Ukraine
56:03 – Why political scientists and historians should visit Ukraine now
1:01:30 – Favourite place in Ukraine

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