Yuliya BidenkoDr Yuliya Bidenko is MA in Sociology (2004), PhD in Political Science (2009). She holds the position of Associate Professor and Guarantee of the Master’s Program at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Political Science Department. She was a ResearchFellow for The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Wien), the Civil Society Studies Department of Charles University, an Individual Research Fellow for the Center for Advanced Studies and Education in the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), and a participant of the post-Soviet Researchers and Teachers Excellence Program by the Temple University, co-facilitator for the International Institute for Civic Studies by the Tufts University and the University of Augsburg. Since 2016 Dr. Bidenko is the expert for the “Team Europe” Initiative by the European Union’s Delegation to Ukraine. In 2021 she was the expert and the author of the Ukrainian annual country report for the Nations in Transit by the Freedom House.  Professor Bidenko has published academic articles and papers devoted to the problems of civil society, decentralization, ideologies, political regimes’ changes, and the establishment of democratic institutions and reforms in Ukraine and in Eastern Europe. Read More Read Less