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The Slavic Connexion — 215 episodes
Harry Potter and Putin’s Russia: Fantasy, Fandom, and Politics with Eliot Borenstein
Remembering the Forgotten: Eastern Europe’s Migrant Experience
Tower of Mud and Straw: War and Propaganda Through the Lens of Sci-Fi
Degrees of Freedom: Women Under Serfdom in Russia
Unlocking Change: Meet the Prague Civil Society Centre
The German Perspective: NATO, Ukraine, and Russian Information Operations
"Bad Romance": Sex, Spies, and Lies from the Cold War
Stable Division: Belarus & the Continued Battle for Democracy
"We're all in cyberspace together": Digital Literacy from Ukraine to the World
"I tried the 'Truth' thing": Telegram, Free Speech, and the Debunking Dilemma
It's Complicated: North Macedonia, Historiography, and Indigenous Nations
Metaphor to Direct: The History of Russian New Drama
Words Without Bars: Russian Prison Literature & the Encyclopedia of the Dog
"Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism"
Cyber Crime & Punishment in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Liberty After Liberalism: Post-Maidan Transformations in Ukrainian Media
Through American Eyes: Citizen Diplomacy and the Post-Soviet Market Economy
Reporting in "Relative Unfreedom": A Conversation with Pjotr Sauer of The Guardian
Haunted Empire: Power, Trauma, & the Uncanny in Russian Imperial Gothic Literature
Ukraine and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections with Terrell Jermaine Starr
From Empires and Kings to Hitler and Co.: Democracy and Dictatorship in Central and Eastern Europe
Resiliency, Corruption, and Uncertainty: Assessing Ukraine's Politics and Long-Term Prospects
Germany and NATO: Developing Interoperability, Information Advantage, & Resiliency
Demystifying Cyber: Building Resiliency in the Modern Technology Landscape
"Atomic Steppe": The Soviet Nuclear Legacy and the Global Arms Race
Ballistics and Ballots: The Ukraine War in 2024 and Beyond with Michael Kofman
Mordor to Moscow, Potter to Putin: Into the Slavic Multiverse with Eliot Borenstein
Battle Without Borders: Cyberwarfare and the Russian (Dis)advantage
Gravedigger of the Present: Memory Politics and the Weaponization of History
The State of Investigative Journalism in Russia Today with Mikhail Rubin
The (Grass)roots of Illiberalism: Contemporary Authoritarianism, Identity Projects, & Culture Wars in Europe
Surveillance, Liberty, & Privacy: A Conversation on National Security & Emerging Technologies with Adam Klein
Bravehearts: The Real Story of the Chechens' Unending Fight for Independence (#Connexions speaker series)
Yellowing Paper: Russian Journalism, the New Proletarian Elite, and an Economy of Smugglers
On the Wings of Russian Propaganda: Slovakia and the Decline of Democracy in Central Europe
A Matter of Defense: Russia's Arms Industry, Post-Soviet Wars, and American Pragmatism
From Fallujah to the Forty Acres: History, Strategy, and Statecraft with Paul Edgar
From Russia to Hollywood: Bringing Slavic Culture to the Silver Screen
There's No Business Like War Business: Prigozhin, Putin, and Weakening Partnerships
Bohemian Forgery: The Legendary Czech Manuscripts and National Myth
Post-Soviet Protests, Politics, and Premature Dismissals of Russia's Regional Governors
The Case of DOXA: A New Chapter in Russian Youth Repression
Behind Black & White Frontlines: Literature Development in Wartime Ukraine, 2014-2022
The Art of Transition from Socialist to Post-Socialist Russia
KAZKA: The Voice of Ukraine
You Only Need to Die: The Secret Police of East Germany and Romania
Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia
"In the Storms of Transformation": History of Balkan Migration and Globalization with Ulf Brunnbauer
The Other: Russian-American Relations Through the Centuries with Ivan Kurilla
Compounding Conflicts: Russia in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Africa with Robert Freedman
The Reception Desk: Soviet Bureaucracy with a Human Face, 1979-1985
The Politics of Soviet Football in the 1950s and 60s
"Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War"
Russian Law: "Is There Any?" with Will Pomeranz
"The Demise of the Multiethnic Soviet Union" with Brigid O'Keeffe
"Oil, the State, and War" with Emma Ashford
Shifting Sands: The Middle East and North Africa in Russia's War in Ukraine
"Ingredients of Change": History of Food in Bulgaria with Mary Neuburger
"The Fastest Game in the World" with Bruce Berglund
Putin's War in Ukraine: Mobilization, Annexation, and the Coming Winter
Putting Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in Context with Norman Davies
"Black Garden Aflame": The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict with Artyom Tonoyan
Black Widows: Female Terrorists in Chechnya
"All Future Plunges to the Past" with José Vergara
The Far-Fetched Far Right Non-Story with Andreas Umland
Operation "Denver" and Russia's Disinformation Playbook with Douglas Selvage
Youth Political Engagement in the 2019 Ukrainian Presidential Election
Putin's War in Ukraine: Russian Roulette with Leonid Ragozin
Putin's War in Ukraine: "Truth will be told" with Alex Kokcharov
Putin's War in Ukraine: The History of the Conflict with David Marples
Российская оппозиция: Беседа с Владимиром Кара-Мурзой
The Russian Opposition Today and the Legacy of Boris Nemtsov with Vladimir Kara-Murza
"Čas proměn": Prague in a Time of Transformation with Mark Baker
NATO and the "Bear in the Woods" with Sergey Radchenko
North Macedonia and the Mired Quest for EU Accession
"Long Hair Goes a Long Way": Exploring the Soviet Hippie Movement with Juliane Fürst
Everything You Need to Know About Eastern Europe (and More!) with Tomek Jankowski
"From Odessa With Love" with Vladislav Davidzon
Nord Stream 2 and You: More Than A European Problem
Sports (History) Illustrated: Cold War Edition with Johanna Mellis
"And Still We Rise": Uncovering the Story of the Bosnian Genocide
Mountains without Borders: Discovering the Carpathians with Patrice Dabrowski
"Frozen by the Thaw": The Soviet Masculinity Crisis of the Long Sixties with Marko Dumančić
The Unexplored History of the USSR, Afghanistan, and the Cold War with Timothy Nunan
An Intimate Look at Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia with Siobhán Hearne
Afghanistan: A Strategic Failure with Ret. Col. Robert Hamilton
Decolonization in Eastern Europe: A Critical Geographer's Perspective with Zoltán Ginelli
The Inside Scoop on "Cold War Correspondents" with Dina Fainberg
Eurovision: More than a Song (Contest) with Sophia Kontos
Steppe by Steppe: From America's Great Plains to Russia's Grasslands (and Back Again!) with David Moon
The Pivoting Anthropologist: From Chernobyl to Social Activism to Kurt Vonnegut to... with Sarah Phillips
The Ghana-Soviet Connexion with Nana Osei-Opare
Ukraine Through the Author's Pen with Oksana Lutsyshyna
"American Girls in Red Russia" with Julia Mickenberg
"Hate in the Homeland": The Global Far Right with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
"Russia Resurrected": The Paradox of the Perception of Russian Power with Kathryn Stoner
Poison, Prison, Protests: The Continued Saga of Alexei Navalny with Mark Galeotti
From Red to Green: The True Nature of Environmental Activism in Russia with Angelina Davydova
Russia's Mercurial Role in Southeast Europe (with Dimitar Bechev)
"Mixed Messages": The Survival of the Buryat Language with Kathryn Graber
"How to Lose the Information War" with Nina Jankowicz (Wilson Center)
From the Russian Far East to the American West with Matthew Luxmoore (RFE/RL)
"Writing Resistance": An Inside Look at Russian Carceral Literature with Sarah J. Young
Russian Meme Culture, "Shirtless Putin," and Pussy Riot with Eliot Borenstein
On Russia's War in Syria with Colonel (ret.) Robert Hamilton
The Eurasia Downbeat with Alex Kokcharov
"Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" with Jasmin Mujanovic
"Dance of Compromise": Putin's Russia, Disinformation, and the Wily Man with Joshua Yaffa
Kyrgyzstan's Uphill Battle for Democracy with Nazgul Kulova
"Lukashenko Has No Future" with David Marples
Siberian Overtones: Stories and Songs from Tuva with Dr. Susan Crate
Living in a Post-Truth World: How Did We Get Here?
The Greater (Dysfunctional) Western Family with Leonid Ragozin
Post-Election Passivity and the Poisonous Politics of Petrostates with Maria Snegovaya
The Hidden Green Men with Kiril Avramov
The Second Libyan Civil War and the Russia Connexion with Mohamed Abufalgha
"Rival Power: Russia's Challenge to the West in the Balkans" with Dimitar Bechev (BALKAN CIRCLE series)
The Białowieża Forest and "Pompik the Bison" with Tomasz Samojlik
"The Strategist": The Legacy of Brent Scowcroft with Dr. Bartholomew Sparrow
"In Moscow's Shadows" with Dr. Mark Galeotti
SPECIAL EDITION: The Fate of Alexei Navalny
Belarus Elections 2020: The End of Europe's Last Dictator?
"A True Gentleman" with Seva Novgorodsev
Intelligence with a Human Face (featuring Stephen Slick)
Voices of the Past: Songs from Rural Ukraine (with Susan Crate)
"Disunited Nations" with Peter Zeihan
Вокруг света с Жанной Немцовой
World War "C": Covid, Cognitive Dissonance, and Communism (with Markos Kounalakis)
"It Is What It Is": Western Media, the End of the USSR, and Russia Today (with Jeff Trimble)
From Media Literacy to Karaoke Diplomacy (with Joe Crescente)
"To Russia and Beyond!" (featuring RBTH Editor-in-Chief Vsevolod Pulya)
Between Diplomacy and Propaganda: Global Engagement in the Digital Age (with Nicholas Cull)
Музыкальное путешествие со специальным гостем Артемием Троицким
Rock the USSR Part 2 (with Artemy Troitsky and Tom Garza)
"Everything is Going Extremely Well..."
"The Shadow in the East" with Aliide Naylor
Soviets, Slovaks, and the Pope (with James Felak) // The Post-Socialist Effect (with Kateřina Kolářová)
The Future is Viral: Putin, Petroleum, and the Pandemic
"Our Generation" (featuring Christian Ray Flores... and his music)
The Filmmaker and the First Tsar: The Legend of Sergei Eisenstein (with Joan Neuberger)
A Little Bit Cosmopolitan (with Graham Reblitz)
Timeless Secrets of Ancient Romania
Shades of Red, White, and Blue: Politics and Foreign Policy Today (with Dr. Mark Pomar)
Bridging the Gap: From Campus to Career (with Tom and Tracy)
The Quintessential S. Ansky // The Sprit of Sakha (ASEEES)
"The Russia Factor": From Japan to the Crimea Consensus (ASEEES)
Winnie the Pooh... and Brezhnev Too // Balkan Blackness (ASEEES)
"Who Needs to Study Soviet Literature?" with Lena and Sasha
Albania Mania: Football to Rap to Racism with Cultural Anthropologist Chelsi West Ohueri
Victims' State // Slavic Folklore in YA Fiction
Urban Czech Walk // MTV & Yugoslav Rock (ASEEES 2019 Conference)
"Time is Profoundly Weird" with Craig Campbell
Carpatho-Rusyn Nationality with Paul Magosci (ASEEES 2019 Conference)
15 Minutes with Vladimir Golstein (ASEEES 2019)
Голос народа: СМИ, Киргизия, и гражданские права (на русском языке)
A Very Venezuelan Connexion: Cold War, Foreign Investment, and Oil Culture
Journey to Lake Baikal with Dr. Evgenia Wilkins
Q is for Qazaqstan: Independent Media, Brain Drain, and the New Alphabet
London Fog: Brexit and the Dubious Future of the EU
One Million Moments for Democracy in the Czech Republic
Kyrgyzstan: Progressive Media, Human Rights, and the Power of Journalism (with Tom and Matt)
ROCK THE USSR (with Tom Garza)
«Это не Джеймс Бонд»: от Довлатова до Пелевина (на русском языке)
"From Saratov to the 'Silver Screen'" with Marina Alexandrova
"Take Me to Siberia" with Susan Crate
"The American Hour" with Alexander Genis
Tongues on Fire: The Struggle for Language Survival in Eurasia
Американская рапсодия с Мариной Александровой
Georgia On My Mind: From Smuggled Spices to Internally Displaced Persons
Dr. X: The Reluctant Conspiratologist
"Hammer and Silicon" with Dan Satinsky
"The Colorful Revolution" Part 2 of 2
Season 2 Begins: "The Colorful Revolution" (Part 1)
Тринадцать минут с Ильей Яблоковым (на русском языке)
"Fifty Shades of Conspiracy" with Ilya Yablokov (Part 2 of 2)
"Fifty Shades of Conspiracy" with Ilya Yablokov (Part 1 of 2)
SlavX Student Spotlight: Anna-Maria Andreeva
"Vampires of Serendipity" with Tom Garza
"The Continuity of Everything..." with John Gleb (and Matt & Tom)
Turbofolk 2: Revenge of the Balkan Divas
"This is NOT Propaganda..." with Peter Pomerantsev
One Maidan, Two Maidan, Three Maidan, Four... with Olga Onuch and Emma Mateo (Parts 1 and 2)
The Final One... of Season One
INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 5: "Annexation Agenda" and Protests in Russia and Belarus (Speaker - Aliaksandr Herasimenka)
INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 4: The World According to the Truthseekers (Speaker - Ilya Yablokov)
Russian Language Online! with Dr. Heather Rice
The Monkey Cage
Belarus: "The Last Dictatorship of Europe" with Aliaksandr Herasimenka
INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 3: "The Most Dangerous Element of Information War is the Idea of Information War Itself" (Speaker - Peter Pomerantsev)
INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 2: "Analyzing Twitter Bots" (Speaker - Denis Stukal)
INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 1: "Heads will Troll" (Speaker - Joshua Tucker)
Trust Me: The Politics of Conspiracy Theory with Kiril Avramov
Человек с Дальнего Востока (The Man From the Far East)
The Man From Vladivostok: Russia and the Asia-Pacific with Artyom Lukin
International Religious Freedom and the Case of Uzbekistan: Trading the Hammer-and-Sickle for the Moon and Star
Black Widows of the Black Sea
Inside Dugin's Beard with Tom & Matt
Сeва Новгорoдцев - Рyсская слyжба Би-би-си (на русском языке)
Adventures in Communism with Susanne Sternthal
Turbofolk: The Music of Balkan Identity with Vladislav Beronja
SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Sevaoborot (Texas Edition) (по-русски)
The Currency of Diplomacy and State Department "1.0" with (the one and only) John Gleb
Polls, Politics, and Presidents with Matt & Tom
David Foster Wallace Goes to Russia... in Print
On Democracy in Eastern Europe with Austin Sappington
Brexit: An EU Insider's Perspective with Lorinc Redei
From Radio Free Europe to the US Russia Foundation with Mark Pomar
Baltics and Basketball with Audrius Rickus
Let's Talk Nationalism with Jonathan Parker
The Vietnam Connexion with Mark Lawrence
The Full Scoop on Bulgarian Yogurt with Mary Neuburger
"Don't argue with a geographer" with Bella Bychkova Jordan
The International Breakdown with Dr. Michael Mosser
"Soviet Union Lite" with Mark Pomar
All About Civics (with Matthew Orr)