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Explaining Ukraine
A podcast by UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine. Explaining Ukraine, its politics, society and its culture. Support us: patreon.com/ukraineworld
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Explaining UkraineUkraine: history has come back | Ep. 192
What is it like to live inside history? Why was Fukuyama’s idea of “the end of history” wrong? What does history mean, and why is Ukraine important for the…
Explaining UkraineTop methods of Russian propaganda - Propaganda Diary #3
In this episode of our Propaganda Diary, we look at the top methods Russian propaganda has used during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We analyze how…
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How can Ukraine win this war? - with Ostap Kryvdyk | Ep. 190
What would Ukrainian victory in this war look like? Why is Ukraine’s accession to NATO essential? Is the West’s support of Ukraine sufficient? Could Russia…
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New Ramstein meeting scales up arms supplies to Ukraine, but is it enough? - Around Ukraine #3
In this episode of our Around Ukraine series, we discuss the 9th Ramstein meeting held this week; the latest mass wave of Russian missile strikes against…
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Russian propagandists threaten Europe - Propaganda Diary #2
In this episode of our Propaganda Diary, we look at how Russian propagandists have responded to the catastrophic earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, as well as…
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EU-Ukraine summit; Zelensky’s visit to London and Paris; more arms supplies - Around Ukraine #2
In this episode of our series Around Ukraine, we talk about the EU-Ukraine summit held in Kyiv and strong EU support for Ukraine’s victory and recovery. Also…
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Incredible stories of the Ukrainian resistance | Ep. 186
This war is full of incredible stories of Ukrainians who resisted the Russian invasion. We went to northeastern Ukraine, right along the Russian border, and…
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Living near the Russian border: what does this mean? | Ep. 185
Northeastern Ukraine, one of the most vulnerable areas of the country, is very close to the border with Russia. How did this region get through the Russian…
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Dana Pavlychko - on Ukraine’s economic recovery and support for small businesses | Ep. 184
Why is helping Ukraine’s small and medium enterprises a vital component of the country’s recovery from the war? What are the challenges Ukraine is and will be…
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How Russian propaganda reacted to tank supplies to Ukraine - Propaganda Diary #1
In our new series, “Propaganda Diary," we analyze both new and recurring topics of Russian propaganda justifying the current invasion of Ukraine. In this…
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Tanks supplies, Iran explosions, Czech election - Around Ukraine #1
In our new series, “Around Ukraine," we analyze the international context of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, to understand how it can influence…
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What can Ukraine tell other postcolonial nations? - With Anna Pidgorna | Ep. 181
What lessons does Ukraine have for the world today? How does its history resemble the histories and cultures of other post-colonial nations? Can Ukraine…
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The deep roots of Russia's genocidal war | Ep. 180
Can we call the current conflict a genocidal war? Why is Russia willing to eliminate Ukraine and Ukrainian identity? Why does it consider Ukraine an…
Explaining UkraineOleksandra Matviychuk on Nobel Prize and tribunal for Putin | Thinking in Dark Times # 7
Oleksandra Matviychuk is a Ukrainian human rights defender, and the head of the Centre for Civil Liberties, a Ukrainian NGO which was awarded the 2022 Nobel…
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Local apocalypse in Eastern Ukraine | Ep. 178
Local apocalypse in Eastern Ukraine. We went there again, and this is what we can tell you. In some villages, every single house has been destroyed, without…
Explaining UkraineAnne Applebaum on Ukrainian resistance and Russian totalitarianism | Thinking in Dark Times # 6
Anne Applebaum is an American journalist and historian, Pulitzer Prize winner (2004), author of numerous books about Eastern Europe and global politics, and…
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Ukraine in 2022: war, resistance, suffering, courage | Ep. 176
In this episode, we’re giving an overview of Ukraine in 2022: suffering and heroism of the full-scale war; Russian war crimes and genocidal violence; and the…
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Kherson, a city under constant Russian shelling. A dispatch from our trip here | Ep. 175
Kherson, a regional capital in Southern Ukraine, was liberated from Russian occupation in November. Since then, Russians have been trying to make life in the…
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Mykolaiv, a southern fortress. A podcast from our trip | Ep. 174
The city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine has been under constant Russian bombardment for 9 months. The city has lived without water and electricity for a long…
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Women in Ukrainian culture: a brief introduction | Ep. 173
Why do women play such an important role in Ukrainian culture? How is Ukrainian feminist emancipation connected with national emancipation? Who are the…
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Russian war crimes: how can they be explained? | Ep. 172
How can we explain Russian war crimes? Do they derive from a specific cult of violence present in Russian history? Why is the value of life so low in Russian…
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Russia shells Kherson on Christmas - Weekly, 18-24 Dec, 2022 | Ep. 171
Russia shelled the center of Kherson on Dec 24th, on Chrismas eve, killing at least 10 and wounding over 50 people. Putin and Lukashenka are preparing a new…
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Drahomanov: a key Ukrainian political thinker | Discovering the Ukrainian culture # 4
Ukrainian social and political life is profoundly decentralized. It is based upon the idea of the hromada, an autonomous grassroots community, able to defend…
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Malevych: a symbol of the Ukrainian avant-garde art | Discovering Ukrainian culture # 3
Kazymyr Malevych was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His Black Square and other paintings revolutionized the avant garde art of the…
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36 hours without electricity, water, connection, and heating - what does it look like? | Ep. 168
What does it look like to spend 36 hours without electricity, water, mobile connection, and heating? We, along with so many other Ukrainians, are experiencing…
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Ukraine in wartime - Volodymyr Yermolenko with the International School for Philosophy | Ep. 167
What can philosophy and literature contribute during wartime? How do we shape our relationship with the past? How do we assess our identities? Moreover, how do…
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Lesya Ukrainka: perhaps the greatest Ukrainian writer in history | Discovering Ukrainian culture # 2
A feminist, environmentalist, and one of the greatest dramatists in European literature, Lesya Ukrainka’s works are now getting new attention from Ukraine and…
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Why is Russia so hostile to the “West”? An attempt at a cultural history. - Ep. 165
Russian hostile propaganda against the “West” and the democratic world has been getting ever more insane over the past years. But the “anti-Western” topics in…
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Villages that no longer exist. Stories from our trip to the frontline. - Ep. 164
We visited villages between Izyum and Slovyansk which were wiped off the face of the Earth in the spring. We talked to people still living there. Their living…
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Skovoroda, a Ukrainian wiseman. - Discovering Ukrainian culture # 1
Discovering Ukrainian Culture is a new series of episodes of the Explaining Ukraine podcast. In our first episode, we discuss Hryhoriy Skovoroda, the founding…
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Ukraine renews railway connection with de-occupied Kherson - Weekly, 13-20 Nov, 2022 | Ep. 162
One week after Ukraine liberated Kherson, it renewed the train connection with the city. Ukraine’s president Zelensky visited Kherson only a few days after the…
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Odesa in search of security and identity | Ep. 161
Odesa, a city on the Black Sea. One of the most beautiful Ukrainian cities. Always in danger of Russian strikes from the sea. And a key place for global food…
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Ukrainian students and professors going abroad: is it good or bad? | Ep. 160
The war has made Ukrainian universities much more international than they used to be. Many students and professors are on the frontline, but many have also…
Explaining UkraineBruno Maçães on Europe, Eurasia, Russia, China, and Ukraine | Thinking in Dark Times # 5
Bruno Maçães is a Portuguese politician and author. He is the former Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal, and the author of numerous books…
Explaining UkraineKherson liberated from Russian occupation. - Weekly, 6-12 Nov | Ep. 158
Ukraine has liberated Kherson. The biggest city occupied by the Russians since Feb 24, and the only regional capital the Russians had captured. This is the 3rd…
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Ukrainian universities during the war: a struggle for survival? | Ep. 157
Ukrainian higher education is facing enormous challenges during this war. Universities have been relocated from temporarily occupied territories and…
Explaining UkraineJonathan Littell on Ukraine, war crimes, fascism, and Russia | Thinking in Dark Times # 4
Jonathan Littell is a Franco-American writer and journalist. He is the author of the bestselling novel The Kindly Ones, a story of a Nazi SS officer on the…
Explaining UkraineRussia's grain blackmail failed. - Weekly, 30 Oct - 6 Nov | Ep. 155
Russia's grain blackmail has failed, as Moscow showed it was incapable of blocking Ukrainian food exports. The next big battle will be over Kherson, with the…
Explaining UkrainePhilippe Sands on international law, and its future | Thinking in Dark Times # 3
Philippe Sands is a British and French writer and lawyer. He is a Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at…
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Blackouts in Ukraine after Russia targets energy infrastructure. - Weekly, Oct 23-30 | Ep. 153
4-8 hours of blackouts per day: Ukrainians are facing rolling electricity outages after Russian missiles have hit civilian infrastructure in the previous…
Explaining UkraineLuke Harding on Ukraine, Russia, and war atrocities | Thinking in Dark Times # 2
Luke Harding is The Guardian’s correspondent on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe. He is the author of books "Mafia State", "Collusion", "A Very Expensive…
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Looming environmental disaster in Ukraine's south. - Weekly digest, 16-23 Oct | Ep. 151
Russian troops are preparing for street fighting in Kherson, as they cannot hold back the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the South. There is a risk that they…
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Dostoevsky, crime, justice, and Russia’s war in Ukraine, with Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast | Ep. 150
This episode of the Explaining Ukraine podcast is made in partnership with Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast. With this podcast’s hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and…
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Sorrows and joys of the war zone in Eastern Ukraine | Ep. 149
We went to Kharkiv region again, to learn more about the life of Ukrainians near the frontline and in liberated villages and towns. In this episode of the…
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Kyiv under Russian kamikaze drone strikes. - Weekly digest, 10-17 Oct | Ep. 148
Russia is using Iranian kamikaze drones to attack Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. On October 17th, several drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least 4 people…
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Russia’s massive missile strikes on Ukraine, including Kyiv. — Weekly, 3-10 Oct, 2022 | Ep. 147
Russia carries out one of the most massive and horrible missile barrages on Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February. 83 missiles…
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Russia’s annexation doesn’t stop Ukraine’s counter-offensive. - Weekly, 25 Sept-2 Oct | Ep. 146
Russia has made a new illegal annexation of the Ukrainian territories by grabbing 15% of the Ukrainian lands that it occupied in the past 8 years. This is the…
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Cultural origins of Russian disinformation | Ep. 145
What are the cultural origins of Russian disinformation and propaganda? What is the attitude of the Russian intellectual tradition towards rationality and…
Explaining UkraineTimothy Snyder: Ukraine, the War, and the Plurality of Values | Thinking in Dark Times, #1
The first episode of a new podcast series by UkraineWorld called “Thinking in Dark Times.” UkraineWorld’s chief editor, philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko, talks…
Explaining UkraineIzyum massacre, Russia’s “mobilization” and “referenda” - Weekly digest, 18-25 Sept, 2022 | Ep. 143
447 bodies have been found in a mass grave in Izyum, a liberated town in Eastern Ukraine's Kharkiv Region. 30 bodies bear signs of torture. Izyum is another…
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Crime without punishment: the psychology of Russian impunity. | Ep. 142
Crime without punishment and punishment without crime. This is the formula which describes the psychology of Russian impunity during this war. Breaking this…
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Ukraine’s astonishing counter-offensive. - Weekly digest, 4-11 Sept | Ep. 141
We are witnessing a remarkable counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army in the Eastern part of the country. Ukrainians liberated more territories in 4 days than…
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Ukraine’s counter-offensive disrupts Russia’s logistics. - Weekly, 29 Aug - 4 Sept. | Ep. 140
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have launched a counter-offensive against the Russian-occupied South of the country. Its aim is not to recapture territories…
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The wounds of the war are everywhere – Ep. 139
Wounds of war are visible and felt in places from which the war left five months ago. Buildings are destroyed, and human destinies have been destroyed too. We…
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Independence day reveals Russian weakness. – Weekly digest, 22-28 August | Ep. 138
Ukraine celebrated its independence day on August 24th amidst fears that Russia will use this date for major strikes against Ukrainian targets, including Kyiv…
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Ukraine’s independence: its origins and meaning | Ep. 137
Ukraine celebrates its independence day. This is not a usual independence day. It is full of pain, destruction and death. But over 90 per cent of Ukrainians…
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Kharkiv: missile strikes every night | Ep. 136
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, is under Russian missile strikes every night. Situated 40 km from the Russian border, the city is wounded but remains…
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Occupied Crimea under attack. – Weekly digest, 15-21 August | Ep. 135
Targets in Russian-occupied Crimea are regularly under attack now, which shows Russian weakness to defend the Ukrainian peninsula it occupied back in 2014. The…
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Russia’s nuclear terrorism, again. – Weekly digest, 8-13 August | Ep. 134
Russia has taken Europe’s biggest nuclear plant as a hostage and threatens to provoke a major nuclear disaster in Ukraine. At the same time, Russians are…
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Living in ruins: the story of Moshchun | Ep. 133
Imagine a village near a European capital . Within several weeks, this village is totally destroyed by Russian troops. In its outskirts, you can barely find a…