Vakhtang Kipiani

Vakhtang Kipiani, born in Tbilisi in 1971, is a prominent Ukrainian political publicist as well as editor of the popular Kyiv Internet magazine Istorychna Pravda (Historical Truth). As a student in 1990, he was an active participant in the "Revoluion on Granite" (so named after the stone in Kyiv's Independence Square), the after-effects of which eventually led to Ukraine's independence in August 1991. After studying history, he worked for several Ukrainian newspapers and television stations and as a lecturer in journalism at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Kipiani's research interests include the illegal press as well as the dissident movement of the Soviet era and manifestations of extremism in today's media. His previous anthologies include The Case of Vasyl Stus (Vivat 2019), on the Soviet trial of the eminent eastern Ukrainian poet, and A Country of Female Descent (Vivat 2021), featuring testimonies of significant 20th-century Ukrainian women.