William Ronald Debnam

William Ronald Debnam, from Hertfordshire, is a second year doctoral student at Columbia University’s Department of Slavic Languages. He holds an MA in Slavic Languages from Columbia University and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge. His current research focuses on Ukrainian modernist literature of the 1920s, and specifically how it engages with political questions around Ukrainianisation and Soviet nationalities policy more broadly. This year William is also the instructor for Columbia’s Elementary Ukrainian language course.

Translations in London Ukrainian Review:

Mykola Kulish, Myna Mazailo

Contact: wrd2115@columbia.edu

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Culture as Security

• Issue 5 (October 2025)

This issue of the London Ukrainian Review takes a look at culture as a matter of national security. Highlighting the voices of cultural figures who defend Ukraine with arms, it also examines culture as a tool of Russia’s imperialist expansion, all the while insisting on a bond between cultural familiarity and political solidarity.

Sasha Dovzhyk
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‘Defeat the Enemy and Liberate the Space’: Peter Pomerantsev on Propaganda and Civic Culture

• Issue 5 (October 2025)

How can Ukraine’s culture of resistance serve the country’s security? Olesya Khromeychuk spoke to Peter Pomerantsev about the subtleties of waging information warfare, the challenges of cultivating a world of truth and justice today, and creating the kind of space where democracy can be practised.

Olesya Khromeychuk
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