IV ACADEMIC CONFERENCE “RESEARCH ON POLISH-UKRAINIAN INTERACTION NAMED AFTER HENRYK JÓZEWSKI AND VASYL MUDRYI”

On 28–29 November 2025, the 4th International Academic Conference “Research on Polish-Ukrainian Interaction named after Henryk Józewski and Vasyl Mudryi” was held in Lutsk. The event was organized by Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University and the Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw.

The conference was attended by Oleh Kalakura, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Department of Ethnopolitology, and Mykola Riabchuk, Candidate of Political Sciences, Leading Research Fellow at the Department of Political Culture and Ideology.

The aim of the event was to intensify academic research on the directions of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation in the 20th–21st centuries and on the prospects of Ukrainian-Polish relations across all key spheres: security, European integration, humanitarian and socio-economic.

Mykola Riabchuk and Oleh Kalakura

Mykola Riabchuk served as moderator of the opening and closing sessions, while Oleh Kalakura delivered a presentation during the fifth panel of the conference, which focused on Polish-Ukrainian dialogue during the communist period. He analyzed the situation of the Polish national minority in the Ukrainian SSR during the years of post-Stalinist modernization of the communist regime and its systemic crisis.

Participants of the fifth panel of the conference together with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Oleksandr Mishchenko