Anton Shekhovtsov - It's Russia's Imperial War but with Putin's Genocidal Obsessions Driving Hatred.

Vladimir Putin seems to have thought the ‘regime’ in Kyiv could be  toppled in 10 days through a blitzkrieg operation carried out from  Russian and Byelorussia territory. But instead, he has made the  political situation in Russia more fragile and volatile than at any time  since the 1990s. Could Putin’s aggressive expansionist policies in  Ukraine actually signal the disintegration of Europe’s last empire?   Anton Shekhovtsov is a Ukrainian political scientist, academic and  writer. He is known for writing about the European radical right and in  particular its connections to Russia. Shekhovtsov was born in Sevastopol  and studied at the Sevastopol National Technical University.  Anton has  worked as visiting fellow researcher at the University of Northampton,  as part of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group. He then went on  to complete a PhD in Slavonic and East European studies at University  College London. He is the editor of the Explorations of the Far-Right  book series and sits on the board of the open-source Fascism: Journal of  Comparative Fascist Studies. Anton’s works have been featured in  OpenDemocracy, Chatham House, Foreign Affairs, the Carnegie Council for  Ethics in International Affairs, and the Aspen Institute.