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Oleksandra Matviychuk on Nobel Prize and tribunal for Putin | Thinking in Dark Times # 7
Oleksandra Matviychuk is a Ukrainian human rights defender, and the head of the Centre for Civil Liberties, a Ukrainian NGO which was awarded the 202…
3 years, 4 months ago
Local apocalypse in Eastern Ukraine | Ep. 178
Local apocalypse in Eastern Ukraine. We went there again, and this is what we can tell you. In some villages, every single house has been destroyed, …
3 years, 4 months ago
Anne Applebaum on Ukrainian resistance and Russian totalitarianism | Thinking in Dark Times # 6
Anne Applebaum is an American journalist and historian, Pulitzer Prize winner (2004), author of numerous books about Eastern Europe and global politi…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ukraine in 2022: war, resistance, suffering, courage | Ep. 176
In this episode, we’re giving an overview of Ukraine in 2022: suffering and heroism of the full-scale war; Russian war crimes and genocidal violence;…
3 years, 4 months ago
Kherson, a city under constant Russian shelling. A dispatch from our trip here | Ep. 175
Kherson, a regional capital in Southern Ukraine, was liberated from Russian occupation in November. Since then, Russians have been trying to make li…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mykolaiv, a southern fortress. A podcast from our trip | Ep. 174
The city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine has been under constant Russian bombardment for 9 months. The city has lived without water and electricity f…
3 years, 5 months ago
Women in Ukrainian culture: a brief introduction | Ep. 173
Why do women play such an important role in Ukrainian culture? How is Ukrainian feminist emancipation connected with national emancipation? Who are t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Russian war crimes: how can they be explained? | Ep. 172
How can we explain Russian war crimes? Do they derive from a specific cult of violence present in Russian history? Why is the value of life so low in…
3 years, 5 months ago
Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022 | Ep. 171
Russia shelled the center of Kherson on Dec 24th, on Chrismas eve, killing at least 10 and wounding over 50 people. Putin and Lukashenka are preparin…
3 years, 5 months ago
Drahomanov: a key Ukrainian political thinker | Discovering the Ukrainian culture # 4
Ukrainian social and political life is profoundly decentralized. It is based upon the idea of the hromada, an autonomous grassroots community, able t…
3 years, 5 months ago