Media Appearances
Interviewed for Yle evening news on Environmental impact of Kakhovka disaster, 8 June 2023
Interviewed for Yle’s Uutispodcast “Ympäristötuhoa kuin Tšernobylissä – Kahovkan padon tulva saastuttaa pitkään” on Environmental impact of Kakhovka disaster, 7 June 2023
Interviewed for Ukrainian Review on environmental impact of Kakhovka dam disaster, 7 June 2023
Interviewed for Yle Radio on Environmental impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 26 April 2023
Interviewed for “When Russian Troops Arrived, Their Relatives Disappeared” Vox, 12 April 2022
Talks
2023. Toxic Crimes Project: Collecting Evidence on Environmental Harm following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. In international event on the Protection of the Environment in Armed Conflicts. Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece
2022. Toxic Conflicts: Expertise, Fragmentation, and Environmental Harm. International Studies Association Annual Convention. Nashville, USA (Online).
2022. Toxic Floods on Porous Lands: The Politics of Monitoring Conflict Pollution in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx), Geneva, Switzerland (Online)
2020. Toxic Crimes: Legal Activism against Environmental Destruction in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Invited online lecture at CREECA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2020. Non-Presenting Co-Author of “Activists in International Courts: Theorizing Feedback Loops Among Courts, States, and Rights Advocates in International Legal Mobilization”, presented by Lisa Sundstrom, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, USA (Online)
2020. “Toxic Crimes Project: Legal Mobilization against Wartime Environmental Destruction”, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, USA (Online)
2019. “Toxic Crimes: Legal Activism, International Courts, and the Destruction of the Environment during War”, University of Copenhagen, iCourts. Seminar of international research group “ActInCourts”
2018. at Seminar “Activists in International Courts”, University of British Columbia, Canada
2018. Speaker, “No Truths Left to Report: Cause-lawyers, Freedom of Information Activists, and Trolls in Russia’s Surveillance State” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
2018. Speaker, “First Legal Aid: International Litigation after Violent Conflict” in panel “Legal Mobilization by NGOs in Regional Human Rights Courts” International Studies Association Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco, USA
2018. Speaker, at international seminar “The Use of Law by Social Movements and Civil Society”, organized by ARC Strategic Litigation, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2017. Speaker, Roundtable, “What does the future hold for the Internet in Russia? Between the promise of democratization and the reality of state surveillance.” Annual Aleksanteri Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland
2017. Speaker, “First Legal Aid: Strategic Litigation and Remedy for the Victims of the Conflicts in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine”, International Seminar, “Legal Mobilization and International Courts”, University of British Columbia, Canada
2017. Speaker, “Brokers of Justice: International Litigation and Victims of the Conflicts in Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine”, iCourts, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2016. Speaker, “‘When they come for you’: Legal Mobilization as the Last Defense in Russia’s Surveillance State”, paper presented at the Law & Society Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, USA.
2016. Speaker, “Protecting journalists and human rights defenders in Russia: Defending the freedom of expression through international litigation” at the international conference “‘Between the Carrot and the Stick’: Emerging needs for and forms of NGOs in contemporary Russia”, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2015. Speaker, “Violence and Human Rights in Russia”, Seminar “Critical Perspectives on the Protection and Security of Human Rights Defenders”, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
2015. “Violence and Human Rights in Russia”, Uppsala University, Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden
2014. “Who is Afraid of Human Rights in Sochi?” at ThinkCorner, University of Helsinki, Finland
2013. Invited speaker at LGBTQI week, Turku, Finland
2013. Invited speaker at “International Conference on Human Rights: Experience of the EU and the Russian Federation” in the framework of the Netherlands-Russia Year 2013. St. Petersburg, Russia