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...Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko may have overcome Russian political interference and dioxin poisoning to triumph during the 2004 orange revolution, but he's now at risk of losing his hold on power. On April 2, Yushchenko ordered the dissolution of Ukraine's single-chamber parliament, the Rada, to make way for early elections in late May. In response, the Rada, which is dominated by his opponents, declared the order unconstitutional, blocked funding for the new election, voted to replace the current election commission with the one that was fired for rigging the 2004 election, and referred the crisis...
Plokhii, 49, is currently a professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and associate director of the university’s Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research. In both 2003 and 2005, Plokhii served as a visiting professor at Harvard...
With seven published books, numerous articles and edited publications, and two American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prizes under his belt, Plokhii comes to Harvard with what Flier calls a “sterling record...
...Ph.D thesis on early modern Ukrainian history and the religious history of Ukraine,” he adds. “Once I came to Canada, I decided, why not bring together these two interests. I was able to bring [them] together and look at the Cossack participation in the wars of religion in that time, the ideas they were fired by, and their impact on religious discourse...
...Harvard is a very important center of Ukrainian studies in America,” Plokhii says. “It’s an honor on more than one level...