April 4, 2023In her first appearance at George Mason University, Oksana Markarova, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, participated in a panel discussion about what it will take to rebuild her country. The effort will be staggering.
March 23, 2023What’s the future of Ukraine look like after the Russian invasion? Ukrainian ambassador Oksana Markarova joins others in an in-person panel discussion about a new book tackling that difficult topic.
October 18, 2022After a perilous journey through war-torn Ukraine, a freshman Schar School student looks forward to a new life. But she’s concerned for her parents who remained behind.
April 20, 2022Three George Mason University students from Ukraine offered to answer questions about the fate of their country during an “Ask Me Anything” session.
March 17, 2022More than 1,300 people from across the United States and overseas tuned in to “The Directors' View: Russia & Ukraine,” a virtual program hosted by Mason's Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy and National Security.
March 9, 2022A first-ever multi-campus “teach-in” took a look at the Ukraine crisis from the viewpoints of several Schar School experts—and two of the war’s victims.
February 23, 2022The conflict in Ukraine the world is observing now is nothing new to Anton Liagusha.
When gun-brandishing, Russia-backed separatists took over the Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2014, the country’s prime minister hastily relocated the school to a new campus in Vinnytsia, 20 hours away by train. Now the disused former diamond cutting factory is the site of a university that is, technically, in exile.
