Stepan Stepanenko

Project Fellow, Neo-Populism

Dr Stepan Stepanenko is a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. He received his BA (Hons) and MA by research from the University of York and went on to complete a PhD at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes of Paris Sciences et Lettres with a focus on Ukraine. Stepan has worked with the UK Conservative Party, running for election in the London Borough of Barnet in 2014 and co-founding the Conservative Friends of Ukraine in 2021. He continues to work on cross party humanitarian projects with a focus on Ukraine.

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Was Boris Johnson really threatened with a Russian missile?
Was Boris Johnson really threatened with a Russian missile?

Did the intelligence and military communities know of the alleged threat Russia made on Boris Johnson? Is it even legal to withhold such information? Stepan Stepanenko explores in The National News.

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Putin’s Choices in Ukraine are Going from Bad to Worse
Putin’s Choices in Ukraine are Going from Bad to Worse

Russia is testing whether its people have the stomach to fight, but as social media gets flooded with refusals to accept mobilisation, is Vladimir Putin running out of means to cling on to power? Stepan Stepanenko writes for International Policy Digest.

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Cancel Ukrainian debt to avoid the winter becoming a killer
Cancel Ukrainian debt to avoid the winter becoming a killer

Stepan Stepanenko writes for politics.co.uk on the necessity of cancelling, not freezing or restructuring, Ukrainian war debt in order to deal with the invasion and preserve lives of the civilian population.

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Russian Grain Deal Will Prolong Ukraine War
Russian Grain Deal Will Prolong Ukraine War

Stepan Stepanenko writes for EurasiaReview on how any Russian grain deal risks prolonging Russia’s war in Ukraine and endangering long term supply by propping up tyrannical rule.

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