The University of Oslo’s Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) is proud to invite you to a guest lecture: Sergii Leshchenko: The political climate in Ukraine after Euromaidan: Internal and external Challenges.

Time and place: Nov 19, 2015 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM, Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus

The event is open for all.

About Sergii Leshchenko

Sergii Leshchenko is a Kiev-based journalist, blogger and freedom of the press activist, and since 2014 also a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament. Now he is Chairperson of the subcommittee on international cooperation and implementation of anti-corruption legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction. He is also a member of Interparliamentary group of cooperation with Norway.

In 2013 Leshchenko was awarded a Press Prize by the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation and the German ZEIT Foundation, as well as other awards over the past years. Being engaged in freedom of the press activism and anti-corruption work, he started a lecture course on journalism in Lviv-based Ukrainian Catholic University and anti-corruption course in National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2015. Sergii Leshchenko publishes on a regular basis opinion articles in Norwegian newspapers and international journals. One of his last pieces for POLITICO Europe on the developments in Ukraine – http://www.politico.eu/article/journalists-can-save-ukraine-corrupt-treason/

On Thursday November 19th he visits the University of Oslo to hold a guest lecture on the Political climate in Ukraine after Euromaidan: Internal and external Challenges.

Chair person: Geir Flikke.