Why the West should embrace Moldova (with Oana Serafim)
Giselle and Dalibor are joined by Iulia and guest Oana Serafim, former Director of Moldovan Service for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, live from Bucharest, Romania. Oana brings her personal connec...
15 Jun 202240min
Views of Ukraine from the Czech Republic (with Sen. Pavel Fischer)
Iulia and Dalibor are joined by Pavel Fischer, Senator and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security of the Czech Republic. They exchange thoughts on the Czech Republic's exempla...
13 Jun 202237min
Severodonetsk, Haphazard Allies, and the Russian War Machine
Iulia joins The Eastern Front from Romania! In this episode, Iulia, Giselle, and Dalibor analyze and banter about a range of factors in Russia's war against Ukraine such as military strategy, drawing ...
10 Jun 202247min
How Finland & Sweden Navigate NATO & the Grayzone (with Elisabeth Braw)
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined by Elisabeth Braw, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and expert on "grayzone" warfare (warfare below the kinetic threshhold), to discuss Finland...
6 Jun 202235min
Perspectives from UN Ambassador Sven Jürgenson
As the UN continues to sound the alarm about the global consequences of the war in Ukraine, Estonia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Sven Jürgenson, joins Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia for the East...
3 Jun 202242min
The Role of Culture in Wartime (with Vlad Davidzon)
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined by Vlad Davidzon, a nonresident fellow in The Atlantic Council Eurasia Center and European culture correspondent for Tablet Magazine. Vlad shares his personal ex...
2 Jun 202240min
Orthodoxy and Geopolitics in Eastern Europe (with Prof. Adrian Papahagi)
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined by Dr. Adrian Papahagi, a professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj in Romania. Given the Orthodox faith's relevance in Eastern European culture, Dr. Papahagi j...
1 Jun 202246min
Making Sense of the Donbas
In this episode, Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor unpack recent, quickly-evolving developments in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. War continues to ravage eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military i...
31 Mai 202240min
