Open letter: President Biden, this is how you can uphold your legacy by supporting Ukraine

Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed below are those of the author(s) and signatories and do not purport to reflect the views of the Kyiv Independent.
Dear U.S. President Joe Biden,
As Ukrainian cities continue to be targeted by Russian missiles and drones, bringing death and devastation to civilians, and as Ukrainian soldiers face the horrors of glide bombs dropped from Russian territory, we take the liberty of appealing to you.
We fully understand that, as president of the only country in the Western coalition able to provide a credible and persuasive response to Moscow’s aggression, you have been careful since the beginning of the war to avoid any scenario that could lead to escalation.
In a few months, it will be three years since the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. It now seems clear to us that, for both military and political reasons, this worst-case scenario no longer offers any advantage to Moscow’s leadership. Quite the contrary.
As for the question of Russia’s future after its defeat in Ukraine, the current power structure leaves little room for doubt. The vertical power structure of the “siloviki” (“strongmen”) will likely be reorganized around those components of the politico-mafia system that first understood the need to end Vladimir Putin’s experiment to salvage what remains.
We do believe that there is still a major risk of escalation, but it has moved to Asia. Just as Mao Zedong waited for the Kuomintang to exhaust itself in its fight against Japanese troops before launching the Long March, Xi Jinping is waiting patiently for the Russian military apparatus to collapse.
From this point of view, any Western procrastination can only delay Russia’s inevitable defeat and simultaneously strengthen China’s imperialist designs, not only toward Taiwan and the Philippines but also in the Russian Far West, particularly in the territories of Outer Manchuria, which Russia annexed in the 19th century, the key access to the Sea of Japan.
For these reasons, we believe the legacy of leadership you have shown since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, would be tarnished if, in the final months of your presidency, you did not reinvigorate the Western coalition by supporting the following measures:
Thank you once again for your leadership. Please accept, Mr. President, the expression of our highest consideration.
Sir James Fraser, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Chair Professor of Contemporary Chemistry, University of Hong Kong
Gert-Johannes Hagemann, Major General (ret.), Germany
Willy Herteleer, Admiral (ret.), former Belgian Chief of Defense
Ben Hodges, General, former Commander of the US Army in Europe
Andrius Kubilius, member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Lithuania
Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, Professor of history and geography, researcher at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (University of Paris VIII), Director of Research at the Thomas More Institute, France
Alexander Motyl, Professor of political science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States
Andrej А. Piontkovsky, Senior adviser of the Free Russia Foundation, visiting fellow at Hudson Institute, Russia/USA
Aaron Rhodes, author and president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe; former Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, USA
Taavi Rõivas, former Prime Minister, Estonia
Karl Schlögel, Professor Emeritus, Historian, East European History, Berlin, Germany
Constantin Sigov, Director of European Research Center, University of « Kyiv-Mohyla Academy », Ukraine
Krassen Stanchev, Professor, Sofia University and Board Chairman of the Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria
Marc Thys, Lieutenant General (ret.), former Vice Chief of Defense, Belgium
Nikos Votsios, General (ret.), former International Relations Director, MoD, Greece
Tatiana Yankelevich Bonner, former director of Andrei Sakharov Program for Human Rights, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA
Mika Aaltola, member of the European Parliament, Finland
Solya Bobrovska, member of Parliament, Ukraine
Carlo Calenda, Senator, former Minister, Italy
Martin Exner, Member of Parliament, Czech Republic
Oleksii Goncharenko, member of Parliament, Ukraine
Markéta Gregorova, member of the European Parliament, Czech Republic
Atte Eric Harjanne, member of Parliament, Chair of the Green Parliamentary group, Finland
Rasa Juknevičienė, member of the European Parliament, Lithuania
Rihards Kols, member of the European Parliament, Latvia
Yevheniia Kravchuk, member of Parliament, Ukraine
Marek Kuchciński, member of Parliament, former Speaker of the Sejm, Poland
Kalle Laanet, member of Parliament, former Defense Minister, Estonia
Raimundas Lopata, member of Parliament, Chairman of the Seimas Committee on the Future, Lithuania
Jaak Madison, member of the European Parliament, Estonia
Marius Matijosaitis, member of Parliament, Lithuania
Marko Mihkelson, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament
Alexandru Muraru, Member of Parliament, Romania
Reinis Poznaks, member of the European Parliament, Latvia
Pedro Roque, Member of Parliament, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM), Portugal
Aliona Shkrum, member of Parliament, Ukraine
David Smoljak, chairperson of the Committee on EU Affairs of the Senate, Czech Republic
Sergiy Soboliev, member of Parliament, Ukraine
Björn Söder, member of Parliament, Sweden
Villy Sovndal, member of the European Parliament, Denmark
Markus Wiechel, member of Parliament, Sweden
Halyna Yanchenko, member of Parliament, Ukraine
Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, chairman of the Freedom of Speech committee of the Ukrainian Parliament
Jean-Christophe Abramovici, Professor, Director of the French and Comparative Literature Department at Sorbonne University, France
Gian Paolo Accardo, cofounder and Editor-in-Chief, Voxeurop, Belgium/France
Klaus Adam, Professor of Economics, University College London (UCL), UK
Mantas Adomenas, Secretary General of the Community of Democracies, writer, former member of Parliament, Lithuania
Cengiz Aktar, Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens
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Vincent M. Artman, Adjunct professor, Center for Peace & Conflict Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Martin Aust, Professor of Eastern European History, Chairman of the Association of Eastern European Historians, University of Bonn, Germany
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Tania Babina, Assistant Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, USA
Jaroslaw Balan, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Taras Banakh, Professor of Mathematics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Marta Barandiy, President, Promote Ukraine, Brussels, Belgium
Aurélie Barjonet, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Lille, France
Christine Baron, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Poitiers, France
Polina Barvinska, Professor, World history, Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, K.D. Ushynsky, Ukraine
Yuliy Baryshnikov, Professor of mathematics and ECE, University of Illinois (UIUC), USA
Gilles Bataillon, sociologist, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
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Aurelio Bay, Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Ecole Polythecnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Samantha de Bendern, Associate fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), former NATO Ukraine political officer, UK
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Anastassia Fedyk, finance professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Economists for Ukraine
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Philippe Gabriel, Senior Lecturer in education and training, LIRDEF, Avignon Université, France
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Michael Moser, Professor of Slavic Linguistics, University of Vienna
Oleksandra Moskalenko, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
Violeta Moskalu, Présidente-Fondatrice de Global Ukraine, France
Jean-Luc Mouget, University Professor, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Reinhard Müller, Professor of Old Testament, University of Göttingen, Germany
Wolfgang Müller, professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Vienna, Austria
Ivan Myhul, Professor of Political Economy, Ukrainian Free University, Munich, Germany
Dariia Mykhailyshyna, Senior economist, Center for Economic Strategy (CES), Kyiv, Ukraine
Jaroslav Nad, former Minister of Defence, Slovakia
Anna Nagurney, Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, Social Science Researcher, Paris, France
Boris Najman, Associate Professor and Researcher in Economics at University Paris East Créteil, France
Dietmar Neutatz, Professor of Eastern European History, University of Freiburg, Germany
Francesco Nicoli, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Politecnico of Turin & Gent University, Italy/Belgium
Olevs Nikers, President of the Baltic Security Foundation, USA
James Nixey, Director, Russia-Eurasia and Europe Programmes, Chatham House, London, UK
Bohdan Novosyadlyj, Professor, director of Astronomical Observatory of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Alexis Nuselovici, Professor of General and Comparative Literature, University of Aix-Marseille, France
Dorthe Nyemann, Associate Professor of International Relations, Royal Danish Defence College, Institute For Strategy, Denmark
John O’Brennan, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Maynooth University, Ireland
Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Craig Oliphant, Senior Adviser, Foreign Policy Centre, London, UK
Anders Olofsgård, Deputy Director, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Sweden
Ho Ong Thong, writer, survivor of the Khmer Rouge re-education camps, Cambodia/Belgium
Margus Ott, researcher, Tallinn University, Estonia
Oxana Pachlovska, Professor, Ukrainian Language, Linguistics, and Literature, Fundamentals of Slavic Interculture, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Doris Pack, President of EPP Women, president of the Robert Schuman Institute, former member of the European Parliament and the Bundestag
Olena Palko, Professor of History, University of Basel, Switzerland
Carmelo Palma, journalist, Director of Strade-on-line, Italy
Aleksandra Panyutina, Researcher of School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Filipe Papança, Professor at the Military Academy (Amadora), Portugal
Taline Papazian, lecturer in political science and international relations, Sciences Po, France
Lyudmila Parts, Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University, Canada
Tetiana Pechonchyk, Head of Board, Human Rights Center ZMINA, Ukraine
Harry Pei, Visiting Professor of Economics, Northwestern University, USA
Anne-Marie Pelletier, Emeritus university professor, theologian, Paris, France
Marco Perduca, former Senator, Italy
Ernst Pernicka, Professor of Archaeometry, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Tomas Petricek, former Foreign Affairs Minister, Senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Professor of History, Northwestern University, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Associate, U.S.A.
Dietrich Pfeiffer, MD, Professor emeritus for Internal Medicine at the University of Leipzig, Germany
Eric Picard, Child Psychiatrist, Director, Association for the Memory of the Shoah, Belgium
Jan Pieklo, Polish Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019)
Olga Pindyuk, economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria
Nicoletta Pirozzi, Head of Programme on European Union and Institutional Relations Manager, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy
Katarzyna Pisarska, Chair of the Warsaw Security Forum, Chairwoman of the Council of Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
Sylvie Plane, Professor Emeritus, Sorbonne University, France
Susanne Pocai, author, staff member of the Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Anatoly Podolsky, historian, Director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine
Andrzej Podraza, Professor, Political Science, Head of the Department of International Relations and Security, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Alla Poedie, lawyer, geopolitical analyst, columnist, Ukraine/France
Alain Policar, Political scientist, Associate researcher at Cevipof (Sciences Po), France
Vesselin Popovski, Founding Executive Director, Centre for the Study of United Nations
Vice Dean (Institution Building), Jindal Global Law School
Elena Poptodorova, Vice President of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, former Ambassador to the USA, former Member of the Bulgarian Parliament
Piotr Porayski-Pomsta, Author, translator, France
Volodymyr Poselskyy, President of the NGO Ukraine in Europe, historian, lecturer President of the NGO Ukraine in Europe, lecturer at INALCO, France
Bohdan Prots, associate professor, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Yana Prymachenko, Senior Researcher, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
Maria Pryshlak, Rector, Ukrainian Free University, Munich
Wojciech Przybylski, Editor-in-chief Visegrad Insight — Res Publica Foundation, Poland
Daniel P. Puls, President & CEO PASS global agency, USA
Paolo Puppa, Professor (ret.), University of Venice, academic playwright and writer, Italy
Yulia Pushkar, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, USA
Laura Quercioli Mincer, Professor of Polish Literature, University of Genoa, Italy
Manfred Quiring, Author and former Russia correspondent for the “Berliner Zeitung”, “Die Welt” and “Zürcher Sonntagszeitung », Germany
Eva Quistorp, Theologian, political scientist and writer, former member of the European Parliament, Germany
Alain Rabatel, Emeritus Professor of Language Sciences, University Claude-Bernard – Lyon1, France
Lukasz Rachel, assistant professor, Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), UK
Utz Rachowski, Writer, former political prisoner in East Germany, advisor for victims of the GDR regime, Germany
Waleria Radziejowska-Hahn, member of the Programme Advisory Board of the Lew Kopelew Forum, Cologne, Germany
Pierre Raiman, Historian, co-founder of the association « Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre! », France
Matthew Redhead, Senior Associate Fellow, Centre for Finance and Security (CFS), Russia
Adam Reichardt, Editor in Chief, New Eastern Europe, Poland
Iwona Reichardt, board member, Jan Nowak Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe (KEW), Kraków, Poland
Julian Reif, Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Illinois, USA
Marie-Pierre Rey, historian and political scientist, professor emeritus of Russian and Soviet history, University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Roberto Ricciuti, Associate Professor of Economic Policy, University of Verona, Italy
Janisset Rivero, Cuban writer and human rights activist, USA
Hugh Roberts, Professor, Director of Research and Impact for the department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies, Exeter University, UK
Christian Rocca, editorial director of Linkiesta, Milano, Italy
Alti Rodal, Co-Director, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), professor of Jewish history, Canada
Jacob Rogozinski, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Strasbourg University, France
Malte Rolf, Professor of East European History, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
Sylvie Rollet, Professor Emeritus, President of the association “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre!”, France
Robert Romanchuk, Associate Professor of Slavic in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University, USA
Krystyna Roza Jaworska, Professor of Polish Language and Literature, University of Turin, Italy
Malkhaz Saldadze, Associate Professor, Ilia State University, Georgia
Marie-Claude San Juan, Author and columnist, France
Andrei Sannikov, Chairman of the European Belarus Foundation, former Deputy foreign Minister, former prisoner of conscience, Belarus
Karol Sauerland, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Warsaw, Poland
Sebastian Schäffer, Political Scientist, author, managing director of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Vienna, Austria
Anselm Schmidt, Junior Researcher and Grant Consultant, University of Tartu, Estonia
Benjamin L. Schmitt, Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; Associate, Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA
Dominique Schnapper, Director of Studies, EHESS, Honorary Member of the Constitutional Council, France
Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja, researcher, Sigmund Freud University of Vienna, Austria
Manfred Schruba, Associate Professor, Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy
Jonathan Schulz, Professor at George Mason University, USA
Dirk Schumann, Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Göttingen, Germany
Steven Seegel, Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
Nataliia Shapoval, Vice President for Policy Research and Director of the Center of Excellence in Procurement, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
Yuri Shapoval, Professor, head of Department for Ethno-Political Studies, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University, USA
Tetyana Shlikhar, Assistant Teaching Professor & Director of Undergraduate Russian Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Branislav L. Slantchev, Full Professor at UC San Diego, USA
Olga Slivko, Assistant Professor in Information Systems, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg, Professor of Polish Studies at the Slavic Studies Department of Sorbonne Université, France
Michael Sohlman, former Chair of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Ilona Sologoub, VoxUkraine editor, Ukraine
Andrew Sorokowski, historian and lawyer, former researcher at the US Department of Justice
Reinier Speelman, translator, Associate Professor, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Raphael Spina, historian, teacher at the French Air Force Academy, Salon-de-Provence
Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, Senior researcher (Emeritus), Aix Marseille University (AMU), CNRS, France
Eugene Z. Stakhiv, PhD, Professor, Johns Hopkins U. (Ret.), Director (ret.), US Army Corps of Engineers
Ivan Štefanec, former member of the European Parliament, Honorary President of SME Europe, Slovakia
Mitja Steinbacher, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics, Catholic Institute, Slovenia
Nazar Stetsyk, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Ramona Strugariu, former member of the European Parliament, Romania
Kai Struve, Senior Research Fellow, Historical Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Wally Struys, Professor Emeritus, Defence Economist Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Raúl Suevos, Colonel (ret), former Director of Communication at the Eurocorps, former Commander of the multinational HQ Battalion of Eurocorps, Spain
Martin Svárovský, former member of Parliament, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Fellow for European Policy, Czech Republic
Marcin Swiecicki, former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and former mayor of Warsaw, Poland
Péter Szigetvári, associate professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Marta Szpala, Senior Fellow at OSW – Centre for Eastern Studies, Poland
Charles Tannock, Senior Associate Fellow, Globsec, former member of the European Parliament, UK
Pascal Taranto, Professor, University of Aix-Marseille, Director of the Granger Centre, France
Tatiana Tatarinova, Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair In Computational Biology, University of La Verne, USA
Ian Colin Taylor, former Member of Parliament, U.K.
Ivan Tchalakov, Professor of Sociology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Fulbright Research Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Denys Teps, Professor, Rector of the Brussels Academy of Justice, Belgium
Nicolai Teufel, DAAD Lecturer at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy
Patrizia Tosini, Professor of Modern Art History, Roma Tre University, Italy
Jean-Marc Trouille, Professor, Jean Monnet Chair (UK), co-founder of AfriquEurope  (Univ. Peloponnese, Greece)
Bela Tsipuria, Professor of Comparative Literature at Ilia State University, Georgia
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor in Russian Environmental Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
Frank Umbach, Head of Research at the European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security, University of Bonn, Germany
Andreas Umland, Analyst, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Mathieu Van Vyve, professor of Operations Research, UCLouvain, Belgium
Olivier Védrine, professor, journalist, board member of Jean Monnet association, France
Gianni Vernetti, former Senator, former Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Italy
Fabrice Viale, Senior lecturer, University of La Réunion, Department of Physical Activity and Sports Science, France
Lynne Viola, University Professor of History, Univ. of Toronto
Guido Vitiello, writer, columnist, associate professor of Cinema and Visual Culture at La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Bohdan Vitvitsky, President, Ukrainian Studies Fund, Inc. USA
Polina Vlasenko, Postdoctoral researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK
Barbara von Ow-Freytag, journalist, expert for civil society in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia, Germany
Hartwig von Schubert, theologian, Privat Lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Germany
Hans-Joachim Voth, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
John Vsetecka, Assistant Professor of History, Nova Southeastern University, USA
Ricarda Vulpius, Professor of East European History, University of Münster
Natalia Vysotska, Professor of European and American Literature, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine
Izabela Wagner, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Migration, Paris-City University, France
Lucan Way, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Marcus Welsch, Film director, OSINT- and data journalist, Germany
Anna Veronika Wendland, Research Fellow, Herder Institute for historical research on East Central Europe / Leibniz Association, Marburg, Germany
Sarah Whitmore, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University, U.K.
Johannes Wienand, Professor of Greek and Roman History, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Bernd Wieser, Professor, Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria
Thomas Wilke, Professor of Economics, University of Wismar, Germany
Sophia Wilson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, President, American Association for Political Science, USA
Martina Winkler, Professor of Russian and East European History, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
Sergej Winter, ornithologist, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
George Woloshyn, former Associate Director of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), USA
Gereon Wolters, Professor of Philosophy, University of Konstanz, Germany
Patrick Worms, President, International Union of Agroforestry, Belgium
Susann Worschech, Senior Researcher of Political Sociology of Eastern Europe, scientific co-ordinator of the Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin, Germany
Mykola Yakovyna, artist, former member of the Parliament of Ukraine, honorary president of the Ukrainian National Committee of ICOMOS
Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
Yuliya Yurchuk, Associate Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden
Oleksandr Zabirko, Research fellow, Slavic Department, University of Regensburg, Germany
Andy Zapechelnyuk, Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Yves Charles Zarka, Professor Emeritus, Director of the journal Cités, Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris Descartes, France
Paul Zawadzki, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Mikhail Zhukovsky, Researcher, Institute Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology “Gaetano Salvatore” (IEOS), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Naples, Italy
Miroslav Žiak, former Member of Parliament, Slovakia
Anna C. Zielinska, lecturer in philosophy, University of Lorraine, France
Joseph Zissels, Co-President of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress
Othar Zourabichvili, President of the Georgian Association in France
Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski, Professor, University of Lodz, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Poland