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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Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 5: Immoral People
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Ukrainian writer and journalist Nikita Grigorov was a university student studying Russian literature at Donetsk National University when Russia launched its war in Donbas in 2014. He supported an independent Ukraine and watched in disbelief as friends turned against him, sometimes violently. Then he fled to Kyiv with his father. Listen to his story…
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 4: Covering 2014 Donbas: A Spanish-Language Perspective
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Spanish journalist Argemino Barro was one of the only foreign correspondents in Donbas when Russia ramped up its destabilization efforts there in 2014. He talks about what it was like to cover the story for a Spanish-language audience.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 3: No Ordinary Fourteen-Year-Old
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Tanya Kotelnykova was fourteen years old when Russian-backed separatists occupied Horlivka, her hometown in Eastern Ukraine. She was torn away from her family and has been displaced since.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 2: Donetsk Was My Second Home
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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 his story.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 1: How History Smells
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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 protesting Russia's aggression and volunteering to help Ukrainians.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Coming in mid-November with episodes dropping monthly. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 12 (Season 1 Finale): Waiting for Ukraine
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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, but the war has upended his plans. Season 1 finale.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 11: Mark Andryczyk on Translating Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love
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Volodymyr Rafeyenko, a Russian-speaking novelist, was living in Donetsk when Russia invaded the Donbas in 2014. He fled to Kyiv, learned Ukrainian and wrote Mondegreen in Ukrainian. Mark Andryczyk translated the novel and was planning to bring Rafeyenko on book tour to the U.S. when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 202…
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 10: How Many Letters to You. On Ukrainian Composer Ivan Nebesnyy
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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 and listen to some of his work.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 9: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent's Lili Bivings
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The Kyiv Independent's Contributing Editor Lili Bivings talks about the state of journalism in Ukraine, the implosion of the Kyiv Post, the founding of the Kyiv Independent, and the publication's coverage of Russia's war against Ukraine.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 8: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent's Toma Istomina
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The Kyiv Independent’s Deputy Chief Editor Toma Istomina talks with the site’s contributing editor Lili Bivings about being included on Forbes 30 under 30 in Europe list, leaving war-torn Ukraine to attend a conference in Norway, and what it’s like to cover a war unfolding in your own country. This episode contains explicit language.…
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 7: In Conversation with the Kyiv Independent's Olga Rudenko
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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 for Ukrainian journalists and what it's like to cover a war unfolding in your own country.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 6: Pronouncing Kyiv and the Politics of Speaking Ukrainian
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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 pronunciation and, in the process, ended up getting a lesson in politics and culture.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 5: Dissolved and Absorbed
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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.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 4: Will this Be the Parting, Goodbye?
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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, in 2014, after Russia invaded Donbas, he had to evacuate them from a war zone. Two years later, Peter moved back to Ukraine, settled in Kyiv, and launched a talk show. After Russia attacked the capit…
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 3: Time Stops During War
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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, sheltering in the basement during air raids.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine Episode 2: The Fight for Independence
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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, like many Ukrainians of her generation, she ended up immigrating abroad and watching Ukraine’s transformation, and now the war, from afar.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Voices of Ukraine, Episode 1: No Comfort in a Safe Place
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Serhii Tereshchenko, a Columbia University doctoral student, was working on his dissertation in Kyiv and planning to get married when Russia invaded Ukraine. On his scheduled wedding day, he evacuated to Lviv with his fiancée and her sister.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Introducing our new podcast, Voices of Ukraine. Hear stories of lives upended by Russia's war against Ukraine. Trailer written and produced by Masha Udensiva-Brenner and edited by Daniel Alarcón.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Episode 10: Researching Climate Change in the Russian Arctic: Can the West Turn the Kremlin Green?
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In the latest episode of Expert Opinions, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Kimberly Marten about her research on climate change in the Russian Arctic.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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In the latest episode of Expert Opinions, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Freedom House researchers Nate Schenkkan and Isabel Linzer about their report on transnational repression.Photo by Photo by Angela Compagnone on Unsplash…
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Episode 8: Researching Kleptocracy in Eurasia
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In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews anti-corruption investigator Thomas Mayne about kleptocracy and what it means for democracies all over the world.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Episode 7: Authoritarianism and Dissent in Post-Soviet States
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In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Alexis Lerner about her scholarship on authoritarianism and dissent in Russia, particularly in the context of imprisoned Russian opposition leader and political activist Alexei Navalny. They als…
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Episode 6: Navalny, Transparency, and Political Repression in Russia
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In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet.org, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Matthew Murray about recently-imprisoned Russian opposition leader and political activist Alexei Navalny and his transparency efforts in Russia. Murray started doing business …
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Episode 5: The Trump Organization in the Caucasus
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Masha Udensiva-Brenner tells the story of New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson's two investigations into Trump Organization deals in Baku, Azerbaijan and Batumi, Georgia.This episode is the third in a three-part series on offshore finance, money laundering, and Trump’s real estate deals in the post-Soviet region.…
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The story behind, "Trump's Business of Corruption," Adam Davidson's New Yorker article about Trump's licensing deal in Batumi, Georgia. Guests: Columbia Journalism Investigative Fellows, Manuela Andreoni and Inti Pacheco. This is the second in a three-part series on offshore finance, money laundering, and Trump’s real estate deals in the post-Sovie…
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Episode 3: Looking at Luxury Real Estate's Money Laundering Role
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Alexander Cooley, co-author of Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia, discusses how luxury real estate can enable money laundering. This is the first in a three-part series on offshore finance, money laundering, and Trump’s real estate deals in the post-Soviet region.By Harriman Institute at Columbia University
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Episode 2: What's the Matter with Chechnya?
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Guests: Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch; Thomas de Waal, Senior Fellow, Carnegie EuropeAll eyes turned to Chechnya in early April, after the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta exposed the kidnapping, unlawful detention, and torture of more than 100 gay men by the Chechen authorities. How…
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Episode 1: Russian Protests and Evolving US-Russia Relations
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On March 2, 2017, Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny released a report and video accusing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of massive corruption, and calling Russians to the streets on March 26. The Russian authorities, who remained silent about the accusations, did not issue permits for the protests, but tens of thousands of people to…
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