Rory Finnin

The Reckoning being performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2025.

Cambridge scholar helps bring Ukraine’s pain and power to the stage in critically acclaimed creative collaboration

12 Jun 2025

The Reckoning is an intimate work of documentary theatre composed from a verified archive of witness testimonies chronicling Russia’s war of...

The Crimean Tatar who wants freedom for Ukraine to sing again

18 May 2023

Displaced journalist and scholar Elmaz Asan arrived in Cambridge from Ukraine in October 2022. She sees her research as a chance to fight back against...

Cambridge University launches package of support for displaced Ukrainian students and academics

27 Jun 2022

Comprehensive new support package will help those who have been forced to leave Ukraine or are unable to return, as well as those who have remained.

Opinion: The West must beware the language of appeasement

28 Apr 2022

Words shape our world. We must see Russia's war on Ukraine for what it is and stop appeasing Putin with our words, write Dr Rory Finnin and Dr Thomas...

Ukraine needs solidarity not ‘Crimnesia'

22 Feb 2022

Cambridge's associate professor of Ukrainian studies places the country's current crisis in historical and regional context, offering chilling...

Still image from the Ukrainian documentary 'Twilight'

Bringing Ukraine to the screen

06 Nov 2015

Over the past eight years, the University of Cambridge has become Britain’s pre-eminent showcase for documentary and feature films from and about...

Don’t call it a civil war – Ukraine’s conflict is an act of Russian aggression

24 Aug 2015

As Ukraine marks 24 years since its independence from the Soviet Union, it is embroiled in the most dangerous armed conflict in Europe – against the...

Past as Prelude: An International Conference on Polish-Ukrainian Relations

22 Jun 2015

On June 30 and 1 July 2015, the new Polish Studies programme at the University of Cambridge will host an international conference on the future of...

A woman walks along a railway crossing near Ukrainian tanks on freight cars before their departure from Crimea -- now annexed by Russia -- to other regions of Ukraine in the settlement of Gvardeiskoye near the Crimean city of Simferopol

The Crimean Tatar Sürgün: Past and Present

20 May 2014

In this article, originally published on the CRASSH website, Dr Rory Finnin - University Lecturer and Director of the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies...

Rory Finnin

Cambridge scholar helps bring Ukraine’s pain and power to the stage in critically acclaimed creative collaboration

The Crimean Tatar who wants freedom for Ukraine to sing again

Cambridge University launches package of support for displaced Ukrainian students and academics

Opinion: The West must beware the language of appeasement

Ukraine needs solidarity not ‘Crimnesia'

Bringing Ukraine to the screen

Don’t call it a civil war – Ukraine’s conflict is an act of Russian aggression

Past as Prelude: An International Conference on Polish-Ukrainian Relations

The Crimean Tatar Sürgün: Past and Present

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