Russo-Ukrainian War: Where Things Stand

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Four experts will discuss the current state of things with Russo-Ukrainian war and the most recent military, political, foreign policy, economic, and societal developments.

Andrew S. Bowen is an Analyst in Russian and European Affairs at the Congressional Research Service. He is responsible for military, security, and intelligence issues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the South Caucasus. He has a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from NYU, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College. Prior to CRS he was a Predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University.

Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev is a Professor and Sociology Department Chair at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. While his educational background is in sociology, Fedorchenko-Kutuev regularly pursues interdisciplinary research that lies within the fields of comparative politics and developmental studies.  His research has been focusing on re-interpretation of discourse on modernity and modernization from the perspective of dramatic societal transformations in Ukraine. He has held a number of visiting fellowships at different universities and research centers, including Fulbright fellowship at NYU and stints at Oxford, Tokyo, Vienna and Stanford. Fedorchenko-Kutuev is currently Petro Jacyk Non-Residential Scholar.

Kathryn Stoner is the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and a Senior Fellow at CDDRL and the Center on International Security and Cooperation at FSI. From 2017 to 2021, she served as FSI’s Deputy Director. She is Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford and she teaches in the Department of Political Science, and in the Program on International Relations, as well as in the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy Program. She is also a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution.  

Mariia Zolkina is DINAM Fellow (2022-2024) at the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies at Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF), Kyiv-based think tank. She is a Ukrainian Researcher working in the fields of regional security, reintegration policies towards occupied territories and wartime diplomacy.

In 2022 after outbreak of large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine she was invited as an external expert to cover live news production for Al Jazeera Arabic TV Channel (Doha, Qatar). In June, 2023 Mariia was invited by Chatham House, UK to join Policy Leadership School within The Queen Elisabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs.

Since 2014 she has been producing public policy analysis regarding political and diplomatic components of Russo-Ukrainian war, especially regarding the Donbas region, and implications of the conflict both at the national and international levels. Mariia has rich experience in designing and conducting public opinion polls regarding conflict-related issues, including in frontline areas.

Mariia has authored and co-authored a number of analytical reports, policy papers and publications in prominent Ukrainian and international mass media, books, academic journals and on analytical platforms. She also served as an external consultant to the Ministry for informational policy of Ukraine (testing Strategy of informational reintegration of Donbas with field research tools), and the Governmental Office for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.