Тарас
PR Manager (International Affairs)
- Employment:
- Full-time.
- Age:
- 44 years
- City:
- Kyiv
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Work experience
International Communications Consultant
from 12.2005 to now
(18 years 4 months)
Self-Employed, LLC, Kиев (Marketing, advertising, and PR)
•Internationally recognized, CIA/WikiLeaks-mentioned (hush, don't tell anyone, OK?)
•Followed by/met with Western officials, reporters, experts (in my tweetstorm years)
•Usually pass for a native speaker (American accent)
Relevant experience:
•Met with a U.S. Embassy official/my blog reader to discuss the upcoming presidential election (2009)
•Urged the U.S. government to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive weapons (key Westernization/reform success factor) at meetings w/ U.S. State Department officials (2014-2015)
•Advised against a set-up-to-fail ‘Ukraine fatigue’ scenario due to misplaced Western pressure/inadequate support (2014-2015)
•Warned of a lose-lose escalation scenario whereby the West's underreaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine would backfire, e.g., U.S. presidential election interference (2014-2015)
•Participated in a U.S. National Intelligence University/Cambridge University study by a U.S. Defense Department employee on social media’s role in the Euromaidan protests (2015)
•Attended 4th of July receptions at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence; socialized w/ personnel, guests and U.S. Army Europe (2014-2015)
•Discussed politics and investment climate at Dutch-Ukrainian business events at the Embassy of the Netherlands (2016, 2017)
Background:
•One of the first Ukrainians to blog Ukrainian politics in English (since 2005)
•Attracted regular interest from top-level U.S., Canadian, EU government agencies, multinationals, academia, news and international organizations (full list of readers: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ucoxbeivzzwtf48/Readers.PNG )
•Covered Ukraine’s political landscape (corruption, energy, security, West-Ukraine-Russia relations)
•Came to the fore during the Euromaidan protests and the early stages of the Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbas
•Gave print and live (TV & radio) interviews on developments and possible scenarios (full list of earned media: https://www.dropbox.com/s/746lt1xtvck5qaf/EarnedMedia.txt )
•Interacted with policymakers, reporters, experts and friends of Ukraine
•Emphasized adequate reporting/narrative: state-on-state aggression (limited/semi-covert war of attrition) rather than internal an conflict (civil war/secession/rebellion)
Learn more: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nubzvknjkmhhqa8/Resume.pdf?dl=0
Education
International Christian University
BBA, Management, Kyiv, Ukraine
Higher, from 1997 to 2004 (6 years 10 months)
Language proficiencies
- Spanish — beginner
- English — fluent
- Ukrainian — fluent
- Russian — fluent
- French — beginner
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