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Explaining Ukraine — 431 episodes · page 3 of 5
Russia blows up the Kakhovka dam and creates a huge environmental disaster
Russia’s continued bombing of Ukraine; Patriot coalition; China’s diplomacy - Weekly, 30.05 - 5.06
Ukraine and the Jewish world - with Rabbi Jacobson
How Ukrainians overcome their inferiority complex — with the Ukraine Calling podcast
Bakhmut, F-16 fighter jets, Russian volunteer corps - Explaining Ukraine Weekly, 22-29 May
Ukrainian Identity vs Putin’s tyranny - Volodymyr Yermolenko with the Silicon Curtain podcast
Ukraine as seen from Latin America - with Carolina Amoroso | Thinking in Dark Times # 18
Timothy Garton Ash - on Ukraine’s role in Europe | Thinking in Dark Times # 17
EU diplomat Søren Liborius. World War II and the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Vol. 2
Historian Serhii Plokhii: World War II and the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Vol. 1
This Ukrainian man lost 7 members of his family to a Russian bomb. We’re telling his story | Ep. 222
Nicolas Tenzer - on morality in geopolitics | Thinking in Dark Times # 14
There is still much to learn about Ukrainian history - with historian Andrii Portnov
What’s happening on the Eastern front? Bakhmut, Lyman, Slovyansk, and more | Ep. 219
Finland joins NATO: has Russia’s strategy failed? - Around Ukraine # 10
Writers under attack: the cases of Ukraine, Nicaragua, Myanmar, and Egypt - with PEN International
Putin plays a nuclear card again - Around Ukraine #9
Ukraine’s fight against corruption: is it effective? - With Allan Pagh Kristensen
How Russia uses the grain exports problem to manipulate the global public - Propaganda diary #8
Are we facing a new China-Russia axis? - Around Ukraine #8
Askold Melnyczuk - on Ukrainian literature, diaspora, and culture during the war
Gillian Tett - on anthropology, imperialism, and the West’s (mis)perceptions of Ukraine
Different countries, similar narratives? Ukraine’s and Slovakia’s experience with Russian propaganda
Is there a risk of the West changing its Ukraine policy? - Around Ukraine # 7
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk on war, music, freedom, and resistance | Thinking in Dark Times # 10
Why Ukrainian universities need support - with Aaron Wendland | Ep. 207
Nikopol, a town 6 kilometers from Russian troops, and from Europe’s biggest nuclear plant | Ep. 206
Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president | Ep. 205
Words to denigrate: how Russian propaganda talks about Ukraine, and why - Propaganda Diary #6
Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive and seeks support - Around Ukraine #6
Marci Shore on Eastern Europe, ethics, and cruelty | Thinking in Dark Times #9
5 things to know about Russian imperialism | Ep. 201
What is Genocidal Propaganda? Take 2 - Propaganda Diary #5
Can China’s peace plan stop the war? - Around Ukraine #5
Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8
What is Genocidal Propaganda? Take 1 - Propaganda Diary #4
One year of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine - lessons and prospects | Ep. 195
Ukraine’s cultural scene after a year of the full-scale war. Die Kulturmittler podcast | Ep. 194
Biden visits Kyiv - Around Ukraine #4
Ukraine: history has come back | Ep. 192
Top methods of Russian propaganda - Propaganda Diary #3
How can Ukraine win this war? - with Ostap Kryvdyk | Ep. 190
New Ramstein meeting scales up arms supplies to Ukraine, but is it enough? - Around Ukraine #3
Russian propagandists threaten Europe - Propaganda Diary #2
EU-Ukraine summit; Zelensky’s visit to London and Paris; more arms supplies - Around Ukraine #2
Incredible stories of the Ukrainian resistance | Ep. 186
Living near the Russian border: what does this mean? | Ep. 185
Dana Pavlychko - on Ukraine’s economic recovery and support for small businesses | Ep. 184
How Russian propaganda reacted to tank supplies to Ukraine - Propaganda Diary #1
Tanks supplies, Iran explosions, Czech election - Around Ukraine #1
What can Ukraine tell other postcolonial nations? - With Anna Pidgorna | Ep. 181
The deep roots of Russia's genocidal war | Ep. 180
Oleksandra Matviychuk on Nobel Prize and tribunal for Putin | Thinking in Dark Times # 7
Local apocalypse in Eastern Ukraine | Ep. 178
Anne Applebaum on Ukrainian resistance and Russian totalitarianism | Thinking in Dark Times # 6
Ukraine in 2022: war, resistance, suffering, courage | Ep. 176
Kherson, a city under constant Russian shelling. A dispatch from our trip here | Ep. 175
Mykolaiv, a southern fortress. A podcast from our trip | Ep. 174
Women in Ukrainian culture: a brief introduction | Ep. 173
Russian war crimes: how can they be explained? | Ep. 172
Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022 | Ep. 171
Drahomanov: a key Ukrainian political thinker | Discovering the Ukrainian culture # 4
Malevych: a symbol of the Ukrainian avant-garde art | Discovering Ukrainian culture # 3
36 hours without electricity, water, connection, and heating - what does it look like? | Ep. 168
Ukraine in wartime - Volodymyr Yermolenko with the International School for Philosophy | Ep. 167
Lesya Ukrainka: perhaps the greatest Ukrainian writer in history | Discovering Ukrainian culture # 2
Why is Russia so hostile to the “West”? An attempt at a cultural history. - Ep. 165
Villages that no longer exist. Stories from our trip to the frontline. - Ep. 164
Skovoroda, a Ukrainian wiseman. - Discovering Ukrainian culture # 1
Ukraine renews railway connection with de-occupied Kherson - Weekly, 13-20 Nov, 2022 | Ep. 162
Odesa in search of security and identity | Ep. 161
Ukrainian students and professors going abroad: is it good or bad? | Ep. 160
Bruno Maçães on Europe, Eurasia, Russia, China, and Ukraine | Thinking in Dark Times # 5
Kherson liberated from Russian occupation. - Weekly, 6-12 Nov | Ep. 158
Ukrainian universities during the war: a struggle for survival? | Ep. 157
Jonathan Littell on Ukraine, war crimes, fascism, and Russia | Thinking in Dark Times # 4
Russia's grain blackmail failed. - Weekly, 30 Oct - 6 Nov | Ep. 155
Philippe Sands on international law, and its future | Thinking in Dark Times # 3
Blackouts in Ukraine after Russia targets energy infrastructure. - Weekly, Oct 23-30 | Ep. 153
Luke Harding on Ukraine, Russia, and war atrocities | Thinking in Dark Times # 2
Looming environmental disaster in Ukraine's south. - Weekly digest, 16-23 Oct | Ep. 151
Dostoevsky, crime, justice, and Russia’s war in Ukraine, with Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast | Ep. 150
Sorrows and joys of the war zone in Eastern Ukraine | Ep. 149
Kyiv under Russian kamikaze drone strikes. - Weekly digest, 10-17 Oct | Ep. 148
Russia’s massive missile strikes on Ukraine, including Kyiv. — Weekly, 3-10 Oct, 2022 | Ep. 147
Russia’s annexation doesn’t stop Ukraine’s counter-offensive. - Weekly, 25 Sept-2 Oct | Ep. 146
Cultural origins of Russian disinformation | Ep. 145
Timothy Snyder: Ukraine, the War, and the Plurality of Values | Thinking in Dark Times, #1
Izyum massacre, Russia’s “mobilization” and “referenda” - Weekly digest, 18-25 Sept, 2022 | Ep. 143
Crime without punishment: the psychology of Russian impunity. | Ep. 142
Ukraine’s astonishing counter-offensive. - Weekly digest, 4-11 Sept | Ep. 141
Ukraine’s counter-offensive disrupts Russia’s logistics. - Weekly, 29 Aug - 4 Sept. | Ep. 140
The wounds of the war are everywhere – Ep. 139
Independence day reveals Russian weakness. – Weekly digest, 22-28 August | Ep. 138
Ukraine’s independence: its origins and meaning | Ep. 137
Kharkiv: missile strikes every night | Ep. 136
Occupied Crimea under attack. – Weekly digest, 15-21 August | Ep. 135
Russia’s nuclear terrorism, again. – Weekly digest, 8-13 August | Ep. 134
Living in ruins: the story of Moshchun | Ep. 133
Who are Ukrainians, and what do they want? | Ep. 132