Andreas Umland

Andreas Umland (born 1967) is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions.

In 2005–2014, he was involved in the creation of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.

[3] Umland was a German Academic Exchange Service Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv Shevchenko University, in 2005–2008, as well as department of political science of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 2010–2014.

[5][6][7] As of January 2024[update] Umland is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, part of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

In 2015, Umland was among scholars from around the world who called on Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman not to sign bills on the legal status and commemoration of Ukraine's independence fighters in the twentieth century (№2538-1) and "On the condemnation of the communist and National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols" (№2558).