Mykhailo Samus took part in the brainstorming session on regional security and international relations which was organized by the New Strategy Center” (Romania) and The New Geopolitics Research Network (Ukraine) in partnership with the Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” (Ukraine). Discussions were focused on assessing the security situation in the Black Sea region, the crisis on the Ukrainian-Russian border and negotiations between the United States, NATO and Russia. Russia’s military build-up poses a real threat to Ukraine, as well as to European security in general. The policy of spheres of influence that Moscow intends to revive cannot be accepted, as it restricts the right of sovereign states to choose their own alliances and international organizations in which they wish to participate.
Mykhailo Samus
NGRN Director
After 20 years in media as well as in security and defence analysis and consultancy, Mykhailo is an experienced researcher in the sphere of international relations, national resilience and new generation warfare. Served 12 years in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, he gained his Master’s Degree in International Journalism from the Institute of Journalism, Kyiv Shevchenko National University (2007). Having started his career as a journalist at Defense Express, he became the Editor-in-Chief of the Export Control Newsletter magazine, and then the Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies.
He was the founder (2009) of the EU CACDS office in Prague (Czech Republic), and was responsible for the coordination of CACDS international activities, its regional sections, and projects with NATO and the EU. Mykhailo also was the member of the editorial border of the CACDS Analytical Bulletin Challenges and Risks.
Now Mykhailo is a chief and one the drivers of new international project – The New Geopolitics Research Network which is an independent and nonpartisan initiative to provide a think tank platform for researchers, academics, experts, journalists, intellectuals who aspire to shape a new facets of geopolitics.