Dr. Mykhailo Minakov is Senior Advisor at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC and editor of the Kennan Institute’s blog Ukraine Focus. He is also editor in chief of the Ideology and Politics Journal and the Koine Almanach. Among Minakov’s recent books are Philosophy Unchained: The Philosophical Development in Post-Soviet Societies (Stuttgart: ibidem 2023), InventingMajorities. Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies (Stuttgart: ibidem 2022), and From “The Ukraine” to Ukraine (co-edited with Georgii Kasianov and Matthew Rojansky; Stuttgart:ibidem 2021). Dr. Minakov has over twenty years of teaching experience at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, as well as universities in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. His over 130 articles have appeared in, among other journals, Russian Politics and Law, Protest, Southeastern Europe, Transit, Studi Slavistici, Porównania, Neprikosnovennyi zapas, Sententiae, Krytyka, Ukraina moderna, and Filosofs’ka dumka.