Artur Rehi - Will Defeat of Russia’s Poorly Trained and Equipped Forces in 2023 Bring End to the War
Russia is paying a huge price in terms of blood and resource for every metre of Ukrainian territory it tries to seize. The encircled city of Bakhmut is emblematic of Russia’s lack of strategy and pu...
24 Feb 202351min
Anna Danylchuk - Anna from Ukraine Explains why Ukraine is Different, why it Resists and will Endure
Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Today we are reviewing the last ten months – that for many in Ukraine have ...
24 Feb 20231h 27min
Andreas Umland - Will Peace with Russia Depend on who Suceeds Putin, as Regime Becomes more Fragile.
The cost of Ukrainian victory will be high, and there are many voices calling for peace, as the full-scale war that started in February 2022 approaches its first anniversary. But peace at any price ...
22 Feb 202352min
Bill Browder - Putin’s Kleptocratic System Brought to the Edge of Collapse by Putin's Disastrous War
From 2007-08 Putin came to believe that the West would offer no resistance to his expansionist aims. It’s at that moment he pronounced a more assertive Russia, and started to act accordingly on the ...
22 Feb 202350min
Boris Bondarev - An Undiplomatic Voice of Dissent Rejecting Putin's Crimes against Ukraine & Russia.
Protests in Russia have not happened on any great scale against the war, compared to the dissent seen in Belarus a few years ago, and of course to ferocity of the various Ukrainian revolutions. But ...
19 Feb 202357min
Andrei Soldatov - How GULAG Economics and Repression is Dragging Russia Back to Worst Days of USSR
Russian’s assault on Ukraine in 2022 presents the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War, and the nuclear posturing and threats by Russia are unprecedented in human history. But...
18 Feb 20231h
Denis Zakharov -"Every Russian is Responsible"- On Choosing to Stay and Fight Putin's Violent Regime
Denis Zakharov - "When I say that every russian is responsible, I mean it. But we are not responsible just for Ukraine. For ages, we commit crimes and make people suffer for a bullshit idea of a gre...
18 Feb 202355min
James Rodgers - How Reporting from the Former Soviet Sphere has been Turned on its Head since Feb-22
The world of reporting from the former Soviet sphere has been turned on its head. No longer do journalists based in Moscow report on the affairs of the regions. Kyiv is now the ground zero of narrat...
18 Feb 202336min
