Mykola Riabchuk (1953) is a Ukrainian political analyst and writer, and honorary chairman of the Ukrainian PEN Center. Visiting research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. His most recent books (in English) are 'Eastern Europe since 1989: Between the Loosened Authoritarianism and Unconsolidated Democracy' (Warsaw, 2020), and 'At the Fence of Metternich’s Garden. Essays on Europe, Ukraine, and Europeanization' (Stuttgart, 2021).