Thunderous applause and two standing ovations greeted Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk’s talk on the future of democracy at the Cambridge Union on Friday (February 2). The Ukrainian human rights lawyer has been a formidable campaigner at the Center for Civil Liberties Centre in Kyiv since 2007, an organisation she founded and which has chronicled the abuses and war crimes perpetrated in her homeland – most notably since the 2014 Russian invasion of the Crimea and following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian in 2022. Warning that “if Russia succeeds we will find ourselv…