The Story of "Shchedryk" (with Lydia Tomkiw)
Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia are joined again by Lydia Tomkiw, a senior reporter at the Financial Times, for a special holiday episode. Lydia shares the origins behind "Shchedryk," the 1916 Ukrainian N...
13 Dec 202238min
Emmanuel Macron Goes to Washington (with Laure Mandeville)
Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia are joined by Laure Mandeville, senior reporter for the French media outlet Le Figaro and cofounder of Conversations Tocqueville. On the eve of US President Joe Biden’s sta...
30 Nov 202241min
Narrative Wars (with Jamie Fly)
Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia are joined by Jamie Fly, president and chief executive officer of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to discuss how the media organization has adapted to a changing i...
25 Nov 202227min
Considering the Future of European Security, Politics and Economics
Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia sit down to discuss another round of current events related to the Russia-Ukraine war, including an uptick in Russian strikes against Ukrainian civilians; how new “supersta...
23 Nov 202248min
What happened in Kherson? (with Fred Kagan)
Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined again by Frederick W. Kagan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Critical Threats Project at AEI, to discuss implications of Ukraine's successful reclamation of Kh...
21 Nov 202231min
Zelenskyy: From Comedian to Statesman & Leader (with Iuliia Mendel)
Giselle and Dalibor are joined by Iuliia Mendel, Ukrainian journalist and author and former Spokesperson to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine. Being from Kherson h...
15 Nov 202229min
The Zaporizhzhia Power Plant and Beyond (with Henry Sokolski)
Giselle and Iulia are joined by Henry Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington-based nonprofit organization focused on strategic weapons proliferation...
9 Nov 202238min
Special Edition: Iran on the Eastern Front (with Roya Hakakian)
Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia are joined by Roya Hakakian to discuss the following: Should we consider Iran to be a part of the eastern front? Roya says yes. She analyzes the Iranian people's recent upr...
7 Nov 202241min
