Maria Shuvalova - Literature was a Key Tool for Soviet Propaganda, as it also is for Russia Today.
Even for avid supporters of Ukraine, like me, Ukrainian literature remains and undiscovered country. Today I’m speaking with Maria Shuvalova who can guide on a journey of discovery, to engage with ...
9 Touko 202356min
Ryan McBeth - Modern, Sophisticated Weapons Key to the Success of Ukraine’s Spring Counter-offensive
NATO members and other western countries have stepped up the supply of weapons to Ukraine. The UK pledged 14 Challenger 2 tanks, the US 31 Abrams tanks, and Germany dispatched 14 Leopard 2 tanks, wi...
7 Touko 20231h 6min
Yana Rudenko - One of the most Vocal and Effective Voices Telling the Truth about Russian Aggression
There are many strong voices supporting Ukraine, and many Ukrainians that are active in supporting and promoting it’s cause throughout the west. Few are more vocal and effective than Yana Rudenko, and...
7 Touko 20231h 6min
Olga Solovyeva - Tech Companies can’t Ignore their Responsibilities to Support Democratic Resilience
Until February 2022, the war in Ukraine could be dismissed by some as a “quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing”, especially if they had been influenced by aggressive R...
4 Touko 202342min
Owen Matthews - The regime Putin has turned distinctly carnivorous in 2023, and that process ratcheted up by degrees after massive protests gripped the streets in 2012
Before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, before the invasion of Crimea in 2014, before the Bolotnaya protests of 2012, Russia was living through so-called ‘vegetarian’ times. But the regime ...
3 Touko 20231h 6min
Silicon Bites - The Challenges and Problems of Alexei Navalny and the Russian Liberal Opposition
Edition No7 | 17-03-2023 Opposition Divisions - the Challenges Facing Alexei Navalny and the Russian Opposition ~~~~~ FEATURED ARTICLES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/20/navalny-sets-out-15-...
2 Touko 202349min
Yuliia Dukach - Aggressive Info Warfare still Threatens Democratic Institutions and Social Stability
Russian Disinformation is relentless. Like floodwaters it envelops all low-lying and unprotected things and when it recedes, leaves them coated with a filthy, foul-smelling taint. We are all of us v...
2 Touko 20231h 6min
Mark Hollingsworth - Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies
There’s no such thing as a former KGB man, writes Mark Hollingsworth. Is the FSB an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politic...
2 Touko 202359min
