Rory Finnin is Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. He launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies program in 2008. Finnin studies Ukrainian culture and society, with special interests in Crimea, Crimean Tatar literature, nationalism theory, and Black Sea Studies. His new book, Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity, is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press. His most recent op-ed, “How the West Gets Ukraine Wrong – and Helps Putin as a Result,” was published in February in Politico.