Anton Shekhovtsov
Anton Shekhovtsov is a Ukrainian writer, academic and political activist. He is known for his writings on the European radical right and, in particular, its connections to Russia. He is the editor of the Explorations of the Far Right book series at ibidem-Verlag and sits on the board of the open source Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies.Background
Shekhovtsov was born in 1978 in Sevastopol, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. He began his career as a lecturer at the European University of Finance, Information Systems, Management and Business in Kiev between 2000 until 2002. He was then a political lecturer at the Sevastopol National Technical University from 2006 until 2010. He was living in the United Kingdom from 2010 until 2012 as a visiting fellow researcher at the University of Northampton as part of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group.Works
Shekhovtsov's works have been featured on/at openDemocracy', Chatham House Foreign Affairs'', the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the Aspen Institute.
