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Ukrainian crisis

February 27, 2014

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on a vari­ety of issues relat­ed to the Ukrain­ian cri­sis.

Inter­na­tion­al rela­tions
Nation­al secu­ri­ty, ter­ror­ism
Unit­ed Nations
Unit­ed States for­eign pol­i­cy
Arne Kislenko
Adjunct Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Trin­i­ty Col­lege
Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
Office: 416–946-8973, 416–979-5000 ext. 6206
Mobile: 647–378-8710
arne.kislenko@utoronto.ca
www.kislenko.com

Rus­sia and East­ern Europe
Russ­ian For­eign Pol­i­cy
Democ­ra­cy Pro­mo­tion
Democ­ra­ti­za­tion
Great Pow­er Rival­ries
Seva Gunit­sky
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence
St.George Cam­pus
Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
Cen­tre for Euro­pean, Russ­ian and Eurasian Stud­ies
Trudeau Cen­tre for Peace and Con­flict Stud­ies
Mobile: 508–542-4339
s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca
http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/

Ukrain­ian his­to­ry (Sovi­et peri­od)
Pol­i­tics of mem­o­ry in Ukraine 
Svit­lana Frun­chak
Ukrain­ian Pro­grams Man­ag­er
Cen­tre for Euro­pean, Russ­ian and Eurasian Stud­ies
Office: 416–946-8945
sveta.frunchak@utoronto.ca

His­to­ry of the Sovi­et Union
Vio­la, Lynne
Pro­fes­sor
St. George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of His­to­ry
Office: 416–946-8944
lynne.viola@utoronto.ca

Crimean Tatar Cul­ture
Maria Sonevyt­sky
Petro Jacyk Post-Doc­tor­al Fel­low
St. George Cam­pus
Cen­tre for Euro­pean, Russ­ian and Eurasian Stud­ies
Office: 416–946-8945
maria.sonevytsky@utoronto.ca; maria.sonevytsky@gmail.com
http://mariasonevytsky.com/

Mul­ti-cul­tur­al his­to­ry and lega­cy of Kyiv
Nation­al and cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty
Ukrain­ian and Russ­ian mod­ernism and avant-garde (visu­al arts and lit­er­a­ture)
Ukrain­ian and Russ­ian lit­er­a­tures in the first half of the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry
Taras Koz­narsky
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Ukrain­ian
St. George Cam­pus
Slav­ic Lan­guages and Lit­er­a­tures
Office: 416–926-1300 ext. 3236
taras.koznarsky@utoronto.ca

Author­i­tar­i­an­ism
Democ­ra­ti­za­tion
Rev­o­lu­tions
Post-com­mu­nist pol­i­tics
Lucan Way
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Scar­bor­ough
Depart­ment of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence
(416) 287‑7295
lway@utsc.utoronto.ca