Ivan Katchanovski

Ivan Katchanovski (born 11 September 1967) is a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist. He teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Katchanovski's research focuses on democratization, comparative politics, political communication, and conflicts: in particular, in Ukraine, and especially the origins of the Donbas War, which he has characterized as a civil war, and the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Quotes

• After the [second world] war, thousands of Ukrainians moved to Canada... But possible links and sympathies to the Nazis were largely overlooked as the Cold War set in.
  • ‘Canada has a dark history with Nazis’: political scandal prompts reckoning (2023)

• Zelensky greets as heroes and personally brings to Ukraine neo-Nazi-led Azov commanders, who surrendered to Russia and were kept in Turkey after exchange. These commanders were open neo-Nazis. Now, they are hailed as heroes.
  • Tweet (8 July 2023)

• Whitewashers of far-right mass-murderers in Ukraine continue do deny false-flag Maidan massacre even after Ukrainian trial verdict confirms that many protesters were massacred not by law enforcement but by snipers in Maidan-controlled locations, that there were no Russian snipers & there was no massacre orders from Yanukovych or his ministers. They do this whitewashing of far-right mass murderers by means of outright fraud.
  • Tweet (9 November 2023)