Website: http://www.shekhovtsov.org/
Anton Shekhovtsov is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute (UK) and Research Associate at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Ukraine). He is also Editor of the “Explorations of the Far Right” book series at ibidem-Verlag (Germany) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Open Access e-journal Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. His website:http://www.shekhovtsov.org. Follow him on Twitter: @A_SHEKH0VTS0V
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