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"The Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School held a conversation with Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Tufts University, and Maria Popova, Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, about their new book, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Historie...

Popova and Shevel wrestle with a few key issues plaguing the current projects of cultural imperialism spearheaded by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. To this end, as Putin attempts to erase Ukrainian identity, keeping Ukraine’s unique history and culture alive has become ever more important...

Professors Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel chat with Kieran O'Meara and Jennifer English about the factors that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO expansion and ‘westsplaining’, Regime divergence, identity, war fatigue and holding perpetrators of war crimes accountable....

With the second anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine less than a month away, veteran broadcaster Ian Masters looks into the real reasons behind this brutal war against a neighbor’s country, its people and culture and speak with Maria Popova, a Professor of Political Science at McGill Unive...

This workshop [brought] together Ukrainian, (independent) Russian, and international scholars with expertise in political science, economics, law, and international relations to explore, analyze, and discuss regional dimension of Ukraine’s survival and resilience and its post‑war reconstruction....

Alexei Navalny, the jailed critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been found at a penal colony in Siberia normally reserved for the most serious offenders. Navalny had been missing for several weeks. Professor Popova provides a brief expert's perspective on how the West mistakenly believes ...

Prof. Popova appeared on the third and final panel discussion of the conference, entitled "Beyond The Horizon: Ukraine's Road Towards Post-War Recovery and Development", where she stressed, among other points, the importance of using measurable, "objective indicators" over mere perceptions when asse...

“Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States” by Maria Popova, Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, is the first study to attempt an analysis of both sides of the conflict in o...

Maria Popova, who is an expert on Ukrainian and European relations, explains what the European Commission is, what their proclamation of this November means, and what events have occurred in Ukraine leading up to this proclamation....

As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an “anti-Russia” project. Putin went to war to force Ukraine back into the fold of the “Russian world.” Ukraine resisted, determined to pursue European integration as a sovereign state. These irreco...