Opinion: Russian gas will fund Putin’s war

08 March 2022

Would Europe cutting off Russian oil and gas imports be enough to convince Putin to stop the war on Ukraine? According to Dr Chi Kong Chyong from the Energy Policy Research Group at Cambridge Judge Business School, the global nature of energy markets means that stopping the flow of Russian oil and gas into Europe may not be the ‘hammer blow’ that Western countries are looking for.

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Ukraine needs solidarity not ‘Crimnesia'

22 February 2022

Cambridge's associate professor of Ukrainian studies places the country's current crisis in historical and regional context, offering chilling warnings and surprising sources of hope from the aftermath of Stalin’s “Crimean atrocity”

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Still image from the Ukrainian documentary 'Twilight'

Bringing Ukraine to the screen

06 November 2015

Over the past eight years, the University of Cambridge has become Britain’s pre-eminent showcase for documentary and feature films from and about Ukraine. 

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The Crimean Tatar Sürgün: Past and Present

20 May 2014

In this article, originally published on the CRASSH website, Dr Rory Finnin - University Lecturer and Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme - addresses the banning by Russia of the public commemoration of the deportation of the Tatars in illegally annexed Crimea.

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Pray for Ukraine

A divided Ukraine: Europe’s most dangerous idea

28 March 2014

In this article, originally published on the CRASSH website, Dr Rory Finnin - University Lecturer and Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme - addresses the notion of a 'divided' Ukraine and the current military escalation by Russia.

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