Volodymyr Ishchenko is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology in Kiev Polytechnic Institute and the deputy director of the Center for Social and Labor Research. He authored a number of articles and interviews on radical right and radical left participation in Ukrainian Maidan protests and the following war in 2013-14. He is currently working on analysis of Maidan and Anti-Maidan protests in Ukraine from the perspective of social movements and revolutions theories