Mykola Riabtchouk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Studies in Kyiv and a 2021-2022 Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Paris. His last books (in English) are Eastern Europe since 1989: Between the Loosened Authoritarianism and Unconsolidated Democracy (Warsaw, 2020), and At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden. Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization (Stuttgart, 2021).