Expert Opinions: Russia, Eurasia
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Expert Opinions: Russia, Eurasia
A podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and eurasianet.org. Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews experts about political and cultural developments in Russia and Eurasia.
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29 episodeVoices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 5: Immoral People
Ukrainian writer and journalist Nikita Grigorov was a university student studying Russian literature at Donetsk National University when Russia launch...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 4: Covering 2014 Donbas: A Spanish-Language Perspective
Spanish journalist Argemino Barro was one of the only foreign correspondents in Donbas when Russia ramped up its destabilization efforts there in 2014...
Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 3: No Ordinary Fourteen-Year-Old
Tanya Kotelnykova was fourteen years old when Russian-backed separatists occupied Horlivka, her hometown in Eastern Ukraine. She was torn away from he...
Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 2: Donetsk Was My Second Home
Christopher Atwood lived in Donetsk in the early 2010s and found himself working in Russia during its initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Listen to h...
Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 1: How History Smells
Katia Shraga Davydenko was born in Kyiv in the 1960s. She immigrated to New York in 1992. Since 2014, she has dedicated all her free time to protestin...
Voices of Ukraine: Season 2 Trailer
Coming in mid-November with episodes dropping monthly. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 12 (Season 1 Finale): Waiting for Ukraine
Daniel Brennan was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hlukhiv, Ukraine when was forced to evacuate because of the pandemic. He's been trying to go back since,...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 11: Mark Andryczyk on Translating Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, a Russian-speaking novelist, was living in Donetsk when Russia invaded the Donbas in 2014. He fled to Kyiv, learned Ukrainian and...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 10: How Many Letters to You. On Ukrainian Composer Ivan Nebesnyy
Ivan Nebesnyy is a renowned Ukrainian composer whose music we've been using throughout the series. In this episode you'll get an introduction to Ivan...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 9: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent's Lili Bivings
The Kyiv Independent's Contributing Editor Lili Bivings talks about the state of journalism in Ukraine, the implosion of the Kyiv Post, the founding o...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 8: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent's Toma Istomina
The Kyiv Independent’s Deputy Chief Editor Toma Istomina talks with the site’s contributing editor Lili Bivings about being included on Forbes 30 unde...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 7: In Conversation with the Kyiv Independent's Olga Rudenko
The Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about her reaction to the Pulitzer citation...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 6: Pronouncing Kyiv and the Politics of Speaking Ukrainian
Many listeners have asked Masha about her pronunciation of Kyiv (it sounds like Cave). She turned to linguist Yuri Shevchuk for a breakdown of the pro...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 5: Dissolved and Absorbed
Olena Martynyuk was seven months pregnant and living in the U.S. when Russia invaded Ukraine. Her parents are in Ukraine and refuse to evacuate.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 4: Will this Be the Parting, Goodbye?
Peter Zalmayev grew up in Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine and immigrated to the United States, where he got citizenship. His parents stayed in Ukraine and,...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 3: Time Stops During War
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Antonina Berezovenko stayed in Kyiv in spite of the constant shelling. She is one of the few people left in her building...
Voices of Ukraine Episode 2: The Fight for Independence
Mariya Chukhnova was born in Lutsk in Western Ukraine in the late 1980s. She participated in the Orange Revolution while she was in college. Then, lik...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 1: No Comfort in a Safe Place
Serhii Tereshchenko, a Columbia University doctoral student, was working on his dissertation in Kyiv and planning to get married when Russia invaded U...
Introducing Voices of Ukraine
Introducing our new podcast, Voices of Ukraine. Hear stories of lives upended by Russia's war against Ukraine. Trailer written and produced by Masha U...
Episode 10: Researching Climate Change in the Russian Arctic: Can the West Turn the Kremlin Green?
In the latest episode of Expert Opinions, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner intervie...
Episode 9: Transnational Repression
In the latest episode of Expert Opinions, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner intervie...
Episode 8: Researching Kleptocracy in Eurasia
In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiv...
Episode 7: Authoritarianism and Dissent in Post-Soviet States
In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Masha Udensiva-Brenner inter...
Episode 6: Navalny, Transparency, and Political Repression in Russia
In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet.org, Masha Ude...
Episode 5: The Trump Organization in the Caucasus
Masha Udensiva-Brenner tells the story of New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson's two investigations into Trump Organization deals in Baku, Azerbaijan...
Episode 4: Examining Trump's Batumi Deal
The story behind, "Trump's Business of Corruption," Adam Davidson's New Yorker article about Trump's licensing deal in Batumi, Georgia. Guests: Columb...
Episode 3: Looking at Luxury Real Estate's Money Laundering Role
Alexander Cooley, co-author of Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia, discusses how luxury real estate can enable money launderin...
Episode 2: What's the Matter with Chechnya?
Guests: Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch; Thomas de Waal, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe
Episode 1: Russian Protests and Evolving US-Russia Relations
On March 2, 2017, Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny released a report and video accusing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of massive cor...