Competitors during the 27th Ukrainian Firefighting Championship in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Photo by Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Barcroft Media/Getty Images.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful for substantive critique of, and useful additions to, an earlier draft of this paper by Igor Dunayev (Kharkiv), Georg Milbradt (Dresden) and William Tompson (Paris), as well as three anonymous reviewers from Chatham House. We also benefited from the discussion of Ukraine’s changing territorial design with Kimitaka Matsuzato (Tokyo), Andreas von Schumann (Kyiv), Tony Levitas (Providence) and Benedikt Herrmann (Kyiv), as well as numerous Ukrainian experts on decentralization. Any errors or imprecisions that the paper may still contain, however, remain the responsibility of the authors.
Andreas Umland’s work for this paper benefited from the support of ‘Accommodation of Regional Diversity in Ukraine (ARDU): A research project funded by the Research Council of Norway (NORRUSS Plus Programme)’. See blogg.hioa.no/ardu/category/about-the-project/.