Taras Kuzio is a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, and Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 21 books, including Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (Routledge 2022), 6 think tank monographs, and 165 scholarly articles and book chapters on Ukrainian and Eurasian politics, nationalism, and European studies.

Sergei I. Zhuk is Professor of History at Ball State University, Indiana, USA. His research interests are international relations (especially US-Russia), knowledge production, cultural consumption, religion, popular culture, and identity in a history of imperial Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union. His latest book is KGB operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953–1991 (Routledge 2022).

Paul D’Anieri is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent book is Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (Cambridge University Press, 2019).