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Taras Kuzio
Taras Kuzio is a British Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine). His area of study is Russian and Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs.
Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent.
He received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham.
In 1986, Kuzio, based in London, began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency (UPA) in Great Britain. UPA was a branch of the British-registered company Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies, which published the bi-monthly Soviet Nationalities Survey (which had been launched in 1984 and continued until 1991) and monthly Soviet Ukrainian Affairs (1987-89). The Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies was financially supported by the Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation. Unbeknownst to Kuzio, the organisations were funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency as part of its QRPLUMB Project. The CIA said it had no editorial input into UPA releases, which it described as "infiltration of the QRPLUMB product into the USSR".[non-primary source needed]
From 1998-99, he was director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In 2004-06, he was a visiting professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES).
In 2010-11, he was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.
In 2011-12, he was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan. Subsequently,[when?] he was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
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Taras Kuzio
Taras Kuzio is a British Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine). His area of study is Russian and Ukrainian political, economic and security affairs.
Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent.
He received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham.
In 1986, Kuzio, based in London, began compiling and translating information on current events in Soviet Ukraine and provided this information to the media through the Ukraine Press Agency (UPA) in Great Britain. UPA was a branch of the British-registered company Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies, which published the bi-monthly Soviet Nationalities Survey (which had been launched in 1984 and continued until 1991) and monthly Soviet Ukrainian Affairs (1987-89). The Society for Soviet Nationalities Studies was financially supported by the Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation. Unbeknownst to Kuzio, the organisations were funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency as part of its QRPLUMB Project. The CIA said it had no editorial input into UPA releases, which it described as "infiltration of the QRPLUMB product into the USSR".[non-primary source needed]
From 1998-99, he was director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In 2004-06, he was a visiting professor in George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs' Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES).
In 2010-11, he was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.
In 2011-12, he was a visiting fellow at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan. Subsequently,[when?] he was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
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