Episode 66: , Eliot Cohen, professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and contributor to , explains why he's optimistic Ukraine will win the war.
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Episode 65: Author and Moscow correspondent on Russia’s attack on Ukraine and why Vladimir Putin, far from being a Bond villain genius, is actually “an idiot.”
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Apologies for the extended hiatus. will return after the New Year with weekly episodes.
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Episode 64: Retired Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan () assesses Ukraine's military performance since receiving long-range Western artillery systems:
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Episode 64: Ukrainian journalist discusses the recent reshuffle in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's administration and how it relates to U.S. security assistance and the upcoming offensive to retake occupied Kherson:
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Episode 63: How a Shiba Inu dog avatar became an online army of counter-trolls—and hell for one Russian diplomat’s Twitter engagements. Meet the founding fathers of “NAFO,” @Kama_Kamilia and @iAmTheWarax. anchor.fm/freerussia/epi
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Episode 63: How a Shiba Inu dog avatar became an online army of counter-trolls—and hell for one Russian diplomat’s Twitter engagements. Meet the founding fathers of “NAFO,” and .
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Episode 62: Former CIA officer discusses the Dutch capture of a GRU "illegal" trying to infiltrate the International Criminal Court, and whether or not John Bolton could really plot a "coup d'etat."
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Episode 61: returns from the Donbas front and gives his impression of where the war is headed.
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Episode 60: grapples with the perennial question: What is wrong with Germany? Has the war in Ukraine finally put an end to Berlin's accommodationist relationship with Moscow, or is the Scholz government angling for business as usual?
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Episode 59: on how mapmaking can explain atrocities and the real dynamics of contemporary warfare, from Xinjiang to Burma to Ukraine:
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Episode 58: British national security analyst explains what heavy Western weapons systems have gone to Ukraine -- and what Ukraine still needs.
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Episode 57: discusses her husband 's arrest in Moscow and why, despite his being poisoned twice already, he insists on returning to Russia:
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Episode 57: discusses her husband 's arrest in Moscow and why, despite his being poisoned twice already, he insists on returning to Russia:
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My colleague has been arrested in Moscow. In October 2020, he and I discussed his double poisonings in Russia, and why he was seeking answers from U.S. law enforcement, which was none too forthcoming in providing them: twitter.com/ForeignOffPod/
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Happy to announce that is now a joint project between and .
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I've lost a dear Ukrainian friend and colleague and one of the most brilliant people I've ever worked with. Yana Sedova was my producer and the editor of . She died of cancer, in a village north of Kyiv, on March 23. 4freerussia.org/in-memory-of-y
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Episode 54: Putin’s Purges. on the house arrest of Sergey Beseda, the head of the FSB’s Fifth Service, and more fallout in Moscow from a badly orchestrated war against Ukraine:
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Episode 53: Pavlo Kaliuk, the head of community organizing for Podil, Kyiv, on the defense of Ukraine's capital against Russian invaders, and why he would sooner die in Kyiv than abandon his city:
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Episode 53: Pavlo Kaliuk, the head of community organizing for Podil, Kyiv, on the defense of Ukraine's capital against Russian invaders, and why he would sooner die in Kyiv than abandon his city:
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We've also done this on video for the first time and will continue in this format, at least for all episodes featuring guests who are in Ukraine.
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Episode 52: . live from Kyiv after touring the aftermath of a missile strike on a TV Tower, which left as many as five dead. Also, on Ukrainian willingness to fight and why the war isn't going Putin's way:
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Episode 51: Agnieszka Leguck of the Polish Institute of International Affairs on what she learned from her recent trip to eastern Ukraine. (Recorded before the invasion):
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Episode 50: and on the information war preceding a now all-too-real one in Ukraine:
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Episode 49: Ukrainian hybrid warfare expert on how Russia’s “imminent” attack on Ukraine is already underway.
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Just wrapped our next episode with Russian military expert on the buildup at Ukraine's borders and why some kind of attack is likely. To be posted after the weekend.
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