Episodes
Edition No43 | 06-05-2024
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KYIV...
Published 05/06/24
Viktoras Bachmetjevas is a philosopher with an interest in ethics,
especially the intersection of ethics and the philosophy of religion.
Today we’ll be discussing issues as diverse as the threat from autocracy
and oligarchy, corruption, and nepotism, and well as Forgiveness,
contrition, and...
Published 05/05/24
Anna Nemzer is a Broadcast Journalist at the Russian oppositional news
network TV RAIN. She has produced an extraordinary series of documentary
videos on key moments in Russia’s return to autocracy under Putin, and
stages in the consolidation of his power over society and the media.
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LINKS:
https://pen.org/user/annanemzer/
https://twitter.com/tvrain_english
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BOOKS:
Prisoner, Hardcover and Kindle (2016)...
Published 05/04/24
Ivan U. Kłyszcz is an analyst and researcher specializing in core issues
of international security, notably great power competition, the grand
strategy of major powers, and Russian foreign policy. In recent years,
the research of Dr Klyszcz has focused on Moscow’s engagements with the
countries of the so-called ‘Global South’, with particular focus on
Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. His research has been extensively
cited in international media (Al-Jazeera, BBC, Deutsche Welle,...
Published 05/03/24
Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing
fascism, in its annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism,
attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right
movements in Europe. These tendencies have accelerated with the
full-scale war in Ukraine. So, does Russia now meet the diverse criteria
for historic fascism, or it’s off-shoot, German Nazism? Russia has
successfully muddied the waters, by branded itself as the world's
preeminent...
Published 05/02/24
Natalie Sabanadze is Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program, at
Chatham House. Natalie was Georgia’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg,
and the EU and head of the Georgian mission to the European Union in
May 2013. Prior to assuming her current position, Sabanadze worked as
the senior adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
in The Hague. She held a number of posts with the OSCE HCNM, including
head of Central and Southeast Europe section and more recently,...
Published 05/02/24
Illia Ponomarenko is a Ukrainian journalist, war reporter and defence
analyst formerly writing for The Kyiv Independent. In January 2023,
given his prominent role in reporting from the conflict, he was
described by Der Spiegel as "likely the best-known Ukrainian after
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy". He has written an account of his
experiences reporting on the war – I Will Show You How It Was: The Story
of Wartime Kyiv (to be released in August 2024).
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BOOK SUMMARY:
In late...
Published 04/30/24
Ukraine will not succeed in liberating its lands without the provision
of long-range missiles, argues Colby Badhwar. For Kyiv, the ability to
strike operational and strategic targets deep inside enemy territory —
i.e. inside Russia itself — is not a whim, but a crucial necessity. But
are allies framing their strategy and aligning their production and
logistic capabilities accordingly? The manufacturer of German TAURUS
missiles has halted production due to a lack of orders. Meanwhile,...
Published 04/29/24
Jen Stout is a journalist, writer, and radio producer from Scotland,
frequently working in Ukraine. Originally from Shetland she has lived in
Germany and Russia. Her reports are often found in the Sunday Post and
on BBC Radio. And she’s written a fabulous book: Night Train to Odesa:
Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War, which we’ll be discussing
today....
Published 04/28/24
Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the
Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion,
Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically
denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he
was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda
law and to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. In
2015, while in the US, Ponomarev was formally charged in...
Published 04/28/24
Dr Taras Kuzio is a British academic and Professor of Political Science
at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and an expert on
politics, crime and security in Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Taras
Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent and received a BA in economics from the
University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of
London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of
Birmingham; he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. His most...
Published 04/26/24
GUEST: Anders Puck Nielsen - YouTuber and military analyst.
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Today I’m speaking with Anders Puck Nielsen, military analyst and
influential YouTuber based in Denmark. He specialises in naval warfare
and strategy; in today’s video we are going to be talking about
Ukrainian successes against Russia’s Black Sea fleet and state of the
ground war in Ukraine.
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck...
Published 04/25/24
Fears of Russia’s collapse in Biden’s and Scholz’s administrations run
deep and can't be changed by telling stories of Russian war crimes
alone. Advisers and analysts have been conditioned by decades of Soviet
nuclear threat and memory of the chaotic and rapid collapse of the
Soviet Union in the 1990s. But what can turn politicians that cling to
security blanket of escalation management, into leaders that imagine a
Ukrainian victory, a triumph of pluralistic, democratic values, and...
Published 04/24/24
Edition No42 | 23-04-2024
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KYIV...
Published 04/23/24
Disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and is
also targeted at Western democracies and allies of Ukraine. Around the
world aggressive information warfare threatens information security and
social stability, especially in states which Russia seeks to destabilise
or coerce into supporting it. As we saw in the 2016 US elections, it
can potentially threaten results of voting, place undue influence on
voters’ decisions and undermine democratic processes. This is...
Published 04/21/24
Yuliya Ziskina is a Policy and advocacy attorney specializing in
information policy and public international law from Ukraine. She is
based in the New York City Metropolitan...
Published 04/21/24
The approach to supporting Ukraine which Western leaders have been
taking so far has been „as long as it takes“. The lack of a clearly
defined end goal impacted the pace and scale of the assistance, as well
as raised questions on its efficiency. It cannot last this way in the
protracted war as Ukraine’s mobilisation potential and resources are
shorter than Russia’s. Instead, a clear commitment of the West to aid
Ukraine with „whatever it takes for a fast victory“ is the only way to...
Published 04/19/24
GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk
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Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the
full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims
to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the
noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and
independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her
videos, in a clear and honest...
Published 04/18/24
Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the
most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia.
Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside
Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism
over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia,
with no idea of when he can return there.
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LINKS:
INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia -
Konstantin carefully...
Published 04/18/24
Edition No41 | 16-04-2024
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KYIV...
Published 04/18/24
Gregory Terry has worked in Ukraine for 26 years, facilitating the
delivery of aid to frontline areas of the country. Like me, he uses
YouTube as a tool to advocate for Ukraine and demonstrate the amazing
work of his team on the ground. Greg has always been fascinated by the
cultures, history, and languages of the region, growing up in an era
which saw the opening up of the Soviet Union. I’ll let him tell the
story of his family, and how he came to be connected to Russia and
Ukraine....
Published 04/14/24
With the vote on Ukraine on the cusp, the Pro-Putin wing of the American
Far right is pushing a specific narrative designed to enrage Americans
and call the Christianity of Speaker Johnson into question. How is
Moscow influencing the Right and is there narrative taken seriously in
the American political landscape?
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DW Phillips is a documentary filmmaker and constitutional attorney with
Ukraine Story, a nonprofit foundation for journalism and documentary
reporting in Ukraine....
Published 04/12/24
Edition No4 | 10-04-2024
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KYIV...
Published 04/10/24
James Ker-Lindsay is an academic and analyst with internationally
recognised expertise on Southeast Europe (Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and
Cyprus). He has extensive experience working across Government, Private
Sector, Higher Education, and Think Tanks. He is also a regular
commentator for the international media, including the BBC, CNN and
Reuters and was formerly Co-Editor of the Cyprus Review. From 2000-2005,
he covered Greek and Cypriot politics for the Economist Intelligence...
Published 04/09/24