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10  june     06h00
Greece, Ukraine, Communism, War, Europe - with Christos Chomenidis
   I read this book with absolute passion. While it is a novel, it is truly an epic the story of a family told through the greatest upheavals and...
28  may     08h10
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman
   Although Russia claims to be waging a war against the so-called West, no other country has officially deployed its military to fight alongside...
21  may     11h18
Mariupol: Inside Russia’s Massive War Crime - with James Verini
   On March 16, 2022, the Russian army committed one of the gravest war crimes of its invasion of Ukraine. It dropped air bombs on the Mariupol Drama...
13  may     09h21
How Russians Are Erasing Life in Ukraine’s South - with Zarina Zabrisky
   The Russian army is hunting people in Kherson, a major city in the southern part of Ukraine. It is estimated that 700 Russian drones attack Kherson...
07  may     07h51
Why Europe must fix its defence now - with Moritz Schularick
   Ukraine has won time for Europe. A vast amount of time. But the price of this time has been tremendous. It is measured not in money, but in human...
29  april     07h15
How Russia can be defeated - with Lesia Ogryzko
   In recent months, Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia have outnumbered Russian strikes on Ukraine. Ukraine has managed to build its military...
23  april     06h59
Odesa in love and war - with Julian Evans
   Let’s travel for a moment. Imagine you are on the shore of the Black Sea, in Odesa one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe.Odesa possesses...
15  april     06h00
Can Europe become a security union? - with Borja Lasheras
   Can Europe become a genuine security union? Is it truly aware of the 21st-century geopolitical dangers that threaten its very existence? How central...
10  april     09h42
What Black Americans and Ukrainians can tell each other
   What do Ukrainians and Black Americans share in their historical and cultural experiences? Can we draw comparisons between serfdom and slavery, or...
19  march     10h04
Why Ukraine’s resistance starts with ordinary people
   How did two friends save hundreds of civilians? How did one restaurant feed tens of thousands in a besieged city? What does a former entrepreneur...
16  march     11h55
Why the world needs Ukraine’s war tech - with Yulia Marushevska
   Why has Ukraine rapidly emerged as a global leader in advanced defense technology? What is the secret behind this innovation? How has warfare evolved...
19  february     07h54
Decoding Trump’s Ukraine policy - with Christopher Atwood
   Since Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, Russia has drastically escalated its missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. In January...
10  february     10h49
Russia’s energy terror against Ukraine - with Oksana Ishchuk
   During this record-breaking cold winter, millions of Ukrainians are regularly left without electricity, water, or heat as temperatures plummet to -20...
05  february     15h57
Can Ukraine win the technological war? - with Volodymyr Havrylov
   What are the prospects for peace talks and why are many Ukrainians skeptical about them? Does Ukraine have technological parity with Russia on the...
28  january     07h37
Cities without kings: humanity’s prehistory on Ukrainian soil with David Wengrow
   What can the deep past of Ukrainian lands reveal about the global story of humanity? Six thousand years ago, mega-sites flourished in what is now...
17  december     09h19
Ukraine in 2025: can peace talks succeed?
   In 2025, Ukraine is facing unprecedented pressure from one of its key partners, the United States. The Trump administration has chosen not to act as...
08  december     09h57
How Ukrainians fund their own defense: the story of Come Back Alive
   Imagine an NGO that has raised over one billion dollars to support the Ukrainian army. Imagine a civil society initiative that purchases armaments...
01  december     11h32
Ukrainian geopolitical thought - with Danylo Lubkivsky
   Ukraine has its own tradition of geopolitical thinking a tradition that reaches deep into the past and continues to shape the country’s strategic...
28  november     08h38
Why the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is unique - with Natalia Shlikhta
   What makes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church so unique? Why is it such a remarkable attempt to bridge the divide between Eastern and Western...
27  november     08h18
Ukrainian culture: how to reassemble a broken picture - with Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
   Ukrainian cultural heritage is not something that quietly settles into national archives. In reality, it is the result of a dramatic struggle against...
21  november     07h00
How Russia built its myth of Kyiv - with Kateryna Dysa
   Russian propaganda claims that Ukraine is not a separate nation, but merely a preliminary form of Russia. Today’s Kremlin ideology seeks to annex...
19  november     11h28
Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk on Ukraine’s Moral Core
   She is not only a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is not only one of the most visible human-rights defenders in Europe in recent decades. She is not...
03  november     12h41
Being a Ukrainian soldier - what is it like? - with Vladyslav Urubkov
   How is the life of a soldier different from that of a civilian? Which aspects of it are hardest for civilians to understand?What is happening on the...
30  october     12h10
Why Europe’s security depends on Ukraine - with Yevhen Hlibovytskyi
   Ukraine is not a burden for Europe it’s a chance for Europe.Today, European security is unthinkable without Ukraine. Ukraine has the strongest army...
28  october     08h00
How to rediscover Ukraine: the story of Ukraïner - with Julia Tymoshenko
   In this episode, we will talk about Ukraïner : a great initiative that has done a great deal to help rediscover Ukraine both from within and from...
27  october     14h41
Ukrainian children, kidnapped and reprogrammed by Russia - with Kateryna Rashevska
   In this episode, we discuss how Russia destroys Ukrainian families, kidnaps Ukrainian children including those who have parents and reprograms them,...
23  october     07h54
Where Ukrainians get their news in war - with Kostiantyn Kvurt
   Where do Ukrainians get their news? What are the key trends in Ukraine’s media sector during the war? Do citizens trust information coming from the...
21  october     11h44
Timothy Snyder on why history matters and how we get it wrong
   In September 2025, in Kyiv, a prominent American historian Timothy Snyder received the Vasyl Stus Prize a Ukrainian award honoring the name of Vasyl...
17  october     06h00
A Brief History (and Present) of Ukrainian Theatre with Mayhill Fowler
   What do we know about theatre the most ephemeral of the arts in Ukraine? What role did Ukrainian theatre play in Soviet times? How is the heritage of...
15  october     06h00
How Poetry Shaped the Ukrainian Nation with Rory Finnin
   Why is Taras Shevchenko not only the founding father of Ukrainian poetry but also of Ukrainian identity? What aspects of his legacy remain alive...
13  october     06h00
Niall Ferguson on Empires, Networks, and Ukraine
   Are all empires equally bad? If some were better than others, what criteria can we use to make such judgments? Why must we study networks, not only...
10  october     09h30
How Ukraine fights Russian drones - with Taras Tymochko
   Let’s take a deeper look into drone warfare and the long-term changes it is bringing to the battlefield. How is Ukraine countering Russian drone...
29  september     06h00
How Ukraine’s IT keeps surprising the world - with Taras Tymoshchuk
   How is Ukrainian IT transforming the country’s defence? Why is technology key to success in today’s war? Why is Ukraine one of the world’s most...
25  september     07h01
Why Ukrainian History Matters Globally with Yaroslav Hrytsak
   Yaroslav Hrytsak is one of Ukraine’s leading historians and public intellectuals. His recent book in Ukrainian, Overcoming the Past: A Global History...
18  september     06h00
Can Security Guarantees Stop Russia’s War? with Hanna Shelest
   If Ukraine does not receive real security guarantees, the war will continue and is likely to spill over into the rest of Europe. But what kind of...
16  september     09h28
aptivity, torture, violence, and love - with Maksym Butkevych
   Maksym Butkevych is a prominent Ukrainian human rights defender. Before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he dedicated his efforts to the...
22  august     08h01
Ukraine vs Russia: who leads the tech battle? - with Glib Voloskyi
   Why is technology playing such a decisive role in this war? Who is ahead in technological innovation Ukraine or Russia? How are drones reshaping the...
19  august     10h22
How Russians hunt civilians in Kherson - with Zarina Zabrisky
   Kherson may be the most dangerous regional center in Ukraine. Occupied by Russian forces in 2022, its residents were subjected to torture and...
12  august     10h50
Why Trump’s Ukraine plan won’t work - with Tetyana Ogarkova
   Trump is set to meet with Putin in Alaska on August 15. Media reports and leaks ahead of this meeting, along with statements by President Trump and...
11  august     06h33
Russian war crimes explained by Nobel-winning Ukrainian NGO - with Oleksandra Romantsova
   Russia has committed over 160,000 war crimes in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s office. What kinds of crimes are most widespread...
07  august     14h15
What research tells us about the Ukrainian army - with Oleksiy Moskalenko
   How can we understand what’s happening inside the Ukrainian army?How do soldiers feel? What challenges do they face? What parts of military life do...
29  july     09h18
How Does Ukraine Talk to the Wider World? We Asked the Ukrainian Institute
   Ukraine wants to be heard around the world. But we must also learn to listen to the wider world in return.The Ukrainian Institute the country’s...
28  july     10h14
Why colonialism is more complicated than you think - with Botakoz Kassymbekova
   What’s the difference between colonialism and imperialism? What types of colonialism can we identify and which of them are playing out in Russia’s...
23  july     13h51
Why Russia fears Ukrainian literature - with Myroslav Shkandrij
   Myroslav Shkandrij is a prominent scholar of Ukrainian cultural history and Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba in Canada.He has written...
15  july     14h06
His callsign is Caesar, he’s British, and he fights for Ukraine
   There are foreigners fighting for Ukraine in this war but their numbers are small.They are not sent by their governments; they come as volunteers,...
09  july     13h50
Propaganda: shaping narratives in times of war. A public discussion at CEU, Vienna
   Propaganda has long been a powerful tool for shaping public opinion, influencing international discourse, and justifying military actions. In Russia...
07  july     12h56
Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Failures of Neoliberalism and Sanctions Against Russia
   Joseph Stiglitz is a world-renowned economist and thinker who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. I met him in Tbilisi, the...
04  july     11h54
How Drones Are Dramatically Changing the War - with Nataliya Gumenyuk
   This is a new kind of war. Drones have fundamentally changed its nature and continue to do so every day. The threats now come from above, not just...
03  july     13h09
Look at Georgia to Better Understand Ukraine and Russia - with Tornike Gordadze
   Why is Georgia drifting toward authoritarianism? Why is its current government aligning more closely with Russia and blaming its predecessors for...
20  june     10h41
Hannah Arendt on evil: what can we learn from her today? - with Marci Shore
   Some might argue that the concept of evil is outdated in our relativistic age. And yet how can we speak of war crimes, cruelty, or the neglect of...
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