Episode 12: Waiting for Ukraine
Daniel Brennan was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hlukhiv, Ukraine when was forced to evacuate because of the pandemic. He's been trying to go back since, but the war has upended his plans.
16 Jun 202213min
Episode 11: Mark Andryczyk on Translating Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, a Russian-speaking novelist, was living in Donetsk when Russia invaded the Donbas in 2014. He fled to Kyiv, learned Ukrainian and wrote Mondegreen in Ukrainian. Mark Andryczyk tra...
9 Jun 202221min
Episode 10: How Many Letters to You. On Ukrainian Composer Ivan Nebesnyy
Ivan Nebesnyy is a renowned Ukrainian composer whose music we've been using throughout the series. In this episode you'll get an introduction to Ivan and listen to some of his work.
2 Jun 202223min
Episode 9: In Conversation with The Kyiv Independent’s Lili Bivings
The Kyiv Independent's Contributing Editor Lili Bivings talks about the state of journalism in Ukraine, the implosion of the Kyiv Post, the founding of the Kyiv Independent, and the publication's cove...
26 Mai 202226min
Episode 8: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent’s Toma Istomina
The Kyiv Independent's Deputy Chief Editor Toma Istomina talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about being included on Forbes 30 under 30 in Europe list, leaving war-torn Ukraine to a...
19 Mai 202220min
Episode 7: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko
The Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about her reaction to the Pulitzer citation for Ukrainian journalists and what it's like to c...
12 Mai 202220min
Episode 6: Pronouncing Kyiv and the Politics of Speaking Ukrainian
Many listeners have asked Masha about her pronunciation of Kyiv (it sounds like Cave). She turned to linguist Yuri Shevchuk for a breakdown of the pronunciation and, in the process, ended up getting a...
5 Mai 202219min
Episode 5: Dissolved and Absorbed
Olena Martynyuk was seven months pregnant and living in the U.S. when Russia invaded Ukraine. Her parents are in Ukraine and refuse to evacuate.
28 Apr 202212min
