Vlad Vexler - Tyranny in Search of an Idea - How Russia's Increasingly Autocratic Regime Lacks Ideas
It’s my pleasure today to welcome back onto the channel Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and popular YouTuber. Our previous two video conversations proved to be extremely popular, and so we are risk...
12 Jan 20231h 11min
Anna from Ukraine - Video Diary of Anna Danylchuk Provides an Honest and Personal Perspective on War
Today I’m speaking with Anna Danylchuk, who has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. She aims to tell the truth about Ukraine when ...
10 Jan 202357min
Rahim Rahimov - How 1917 Revolution Casts a long Shadow over Russian Politics and Imperial Ambitions
Rahim Rahimov is a Baku-based member of the Management Board the Tbilisi-based Association of European Studies for the Caucasus.
10 Jan 20231h 6min
Edward Lucas - Is Putin the Architect of his own Destruction - or does West Bear Some of the Blame?
Putin claims that a belligerent NATO forced his hand to invade Ukraine. He undoubtedly also feared an independent, democratic, and affluent Ukraine. But like a classical Greek drama, Putin has by hi...
10 Jan 202337min
Precious N Chatterje-Doody - Strategic Application of Terror in Russian Foreign & Security Policies
The war is not going well for Russia. His propagandists on state TV are making ever more aggressive and genocidal demands against Ukraine – doubling down on its right to exist; hardliners are making...
9 Jan 202357min
Paul Niland - Invasion Trauma: Ukraine's Struggle Against Russia's Illegal Occupation and Aggression
Today I’m speaking with Paul Niland the Founder of Lifeline Ukraine, which is the country's first, national, professional, 24/7 suicide prevention and mental health support service. Initially, Lifel...
9 Jan 202349min
Owen Matthews - Has Putin Turned into a Reckless Gambler - Risking Everything in his War on Ukraine?
Russian’s assault on Ukraine in 2022 presents the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War, and the first time a country has sought to expunge a sovereign nation from the map of t...
6 Jan 20231h 6min
Vlad Vexler - Capricious Conscription: Social, Political and Psychological impact of Mobilisation
The Social, Political and Psychological impact of Russia's Mobilisation. Conscription is capricious, and threatening - causing a huge wave of flight from Russia, especially among men of military dra...
6 Jan 20231h 10min
