Volodymyr Ishchenko is a research associate at the Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focused on protests and social movements, revolutions, radicalization, right and left politics, nationalism, civil society. He authored a number of articles and interviews on contemporary Ukrainian politics, the Maidan uprising and the following war in 2013-14. He is currently working on a collective monograph "The Maidan Uprising: Mobilization, Radicalization, and Revolution in Ukraine, 2013-14".