Ukraine's success: to be or not to be? Serhii Leshchenko at OUUS.
Join us for Oxford University Ukrainian Society’s first event in Trinity 2018. Serhii Leshchenko will deliver a lecture titled “Ukraine’s success: to be or not to be?”, followed a Q&A session.

Serhii Leshchenko is a Kyiv-based journalist, blogger, and press freedom activist, elected in 2014 as Member of Ukrainian Parliament. He is currently Chairperson of the subcommittee on international cooperation and implementation of anti-corruption legislation of the Parliamentary Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction.

He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and holds a master’s degree in journalism. From 2000 until 2014 he worked for the “Ukrainska Pravda” edition, specialising in anti-corruption investigations and other political reporting. He has helped launching the «Stop Censorship!» movement in 2010 as well as the «Chesno» campaign that called for transparency in the Parliament.

In 2011, Poland’s Foundation of Reporters recognised Mr Leshchenko as the best journalist in countries of the Eastern Partnership. In 2013, Mr Leshchenko was awarded a Press Prize by the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation and the German ZEIT Foundation. In 2012, he was awarded a John Smith Fellowship, followed by the Draper-Hills Fellowship at Stanford University in 2013.

Serhii has also been Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy in 2013-2014. Mr Leshchenko was selected as one of Reporters Without Borders’ “100 Information Heroes-2014”. In 2014 he was honoured with the NDI’s Democracy Award.

He has also authored two books: “The American Saga of Pavlo Lazarenko”, focused on investigations conducted by U.S. law enforcement agencies on the former Ukrainian Prime Minister, and “Mezhygirya Syndrom of Viktor Yanukovych”, about corrupt activities of the previous Ukrainian regime.

In 2015, Serhii Leshchenko started a lecture course on journalism at the Lviv-based Ukrainian Catholic University.
Date: 25 April 2018, 17:30
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Speaker: Serhii Leshchenko
Organiser: Oxford University Ukrainian Society
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Mishel Ghassibe