Andrew Wilson is Reader in Ukrainian Studies at University College London and a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and therefore an advisor to many EU governments. His book Ukraine Crisis: What the West Needs to Know was published by Yale 2014. He has worked extensively on the comparative politics of the post-Soviet states since 1990. His other books include Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (2011), The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (3^rd edition, 2009), Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2005), and Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (2005). He can be contacted at: andrew.wilson@ecfr.eu