It has been six months since Ukraine elected a brash young comedian to the presidency in a landslide victory. We are in the midst of a complex moment in Ukrainian politics when the credibility and good will that the young president earned during his first several months in power seem to be in decline. Ukraine is now in the midst of international news as the centerpiece of the impeachment process facing American President Donald Trump. As a result, the policy decisions that are facing the Ukrainians are very difficult, and have no clear answers. How are policy reforms proceeding? Are Ukrainians going to react well to the president’s attempts to fulfill his electoral process of concluding the war? Is he being naive in the course he is taking? Is it truly capitulation? Is the parliament taking decisions far too quickly? What will the next six months bring?
Vladislav Davidzon
is the Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of
The Odessa Review
and is also
Tablet Magazine’s
European culture critic. As well as being a policy analyst, his art and literary criticism and reportage have appeared in
Bookforum, The American Interest, The New York Observer, World Affairs Journal, Foreign Policy, Spectator US, The Forward
, and the Atlantic Council's
Atlanticist
. He holds a degree in human rights from the EMA program in Venice, Italy and has reported widely from Eastern Europe, France, and Ukraine, and was previously
Ukraine Today’s
Paris Bureau chief and French correspondent.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
4:00-5:00 pm
Voesar Conference Room, Suite 412
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW
