Denys Kiryukhin is a political analyst and social scientist. His research focuses on political development in post-communist states. He is a co-author of Ukraine without Kuchma (Optima, 2007, in Russian), Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives (E-International Relations, 2015), Ukraine in Crisis (Routledge, 2017), and A New Cold War (Hovedland, 2018, in Danish).