The Slavic Connexion
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An international chat show on the politics, history, current events, and peoples of the Slavic world, sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Clements Center for National Security. Whether you're a Slavophile, a foreign affairs junkie, or simply a curious mind, The Slavic Connexion offers insightful, accessible, and even fun discussions on the sprawling region in the context of our hyperconnected world. "It's not typical Texas..."
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Unlocking Change: Meet the Prague Civil Society Centre
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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The German Perspective: NATO, Ukraine, and Russian Information Operations
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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"Bad Romance": Sex, Spies, and Lies from the Cold War
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Stable Division: Belarus & the Continued Battle for Democracy
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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"We're all in cyberspace together": Digital Literacy from Ukraine to the World
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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"I tried the 'Truth' thing": Telegram, Free Speech, and the Debunking Dilemma
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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It's Complicated: North Macedonia, Historiography, and Indigenous Nations
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Metaphor to Direct: The History of Russian New Drama
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Words Without Bars: Russian Prison Literature & the Encyclopedia of the Dog
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May 30, 2024 |
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"Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism"
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May 19, 2024 |
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Cyber Crime & Punishment in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War
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May 05, 2024 |
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Liberty After Liberalism: Post-Maidan Transformations in Ukrainian Media
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Through American Eyes: Citizen Diplomacy and the Post-Soviet Market Economy
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Reporting in "Relative Unfreedom": A Conversation with Pjotr Sauer of The Guardian
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Haunted Empire: Power, Trauma, & the Uncanny in Russian Imperial Gothic Literature
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Ukraine and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections with Terrell Jermaine Starr
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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From Empires and Kings to Hitler and Co.: Democracy and Dictatorship in Central and Eastern Europe
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Resiliency, Corruption, and Uncertainty: Assessing Ukraine's Politics and Long-Term Prospects
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Germany and NATO: Developing Interoperability, Information Advantage, & Resiliency
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Demystifying Cyber: Building Resiliency in the Modern Technology Landscape
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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"Atomic Steppe": The Soviet Nuclear Legacy and the Global Arms Race
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Ballistics and Ballots: The Ukraine War in 2024 and Beyond with Michael Kofman
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Mordor to Moscow, Potter to Putin: Into the Slavic Multiverse with Eliot Borenstein
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Battle Without Borders: Cyberwarfare and the Russian (Dis)advantage
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Gravedigger of the Present: Memory Politics and the Weaponization of History
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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The State of Investigative Journalism in Russia Today with Mikhail Rubin
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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The (Grass)roots of Illiberalism: Contemporary Authoritarianism, Identity Projects, & Culture Wars in Europe
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Surveillance, Liberty, & Privacy: A Conversation on National Security & Emerging Technologies with Adam Klein
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Bravehearts: The Real Story of the Chechens' Unending Fight for Independence (#Connexions speaker series)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Yellowing Paper: Russian Journalism, the New Proletarian Elite, and an Economy of Smugglers
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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On the Wings of Russian Propaganda: Slovakia and the Decline of Democracy in Central Europe
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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A Matter of Defense: Russia's Arms Industry, Post-Soviet Wars, and American Pragmatism
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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From Fallujah to the Forty Acres: History, Strategy, and Statecraft with Paul Edgar
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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From Russia to Hollywood: Bringing Slavic Culture to the Silver Screen
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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There's No Business Like War Business: Prigozhin, Putin, and Weakening Partnerships
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Bohemian Forgery: The Legendary Czech Manuscripts and National Myth
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Post-Soviet Protests, Politics, and Premature Dismissals of Russia's Regional Governors
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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The Case of DOXA: A New Chapter in Russian Youth Repression
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Behind Black & White Frontlines: Literature Development in Wartime Ukraine, 2014-2022
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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The Art of Transition from Socialist to Post-Socialist Russia
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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KAZKA: The Voice of Ukraine
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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You Only Need to Die: The Secret Police of East Germany and Romania
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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"In the Storms of Transformation": History of Balkan Migration and Globalization with Ulf Brunnbauer
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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The Other: Russian-American Relations Through the Centuries with Ivan Kurilla
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Compounding Conflicts: Russia in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Africa with Robert Freedman
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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The Reception Desk: Soviet Bureaucracy with a Human Face, 1979-1985
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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The Politics of Soviet Football in the 1950s and 60s
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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"Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War"
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Russian Law: "Is There Any?" with Will Pomeranz
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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"The Demise of the Multiethnic Soviet Union" with Brigid O'Keeffe
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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"Oil, the State, and War" with Emma Ashford
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Shifting Sands: The Middle East and North Africa in Russia's War in Ukraine
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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"Ingredients of Change": History of Food in Bulgaria with Mary Neuburger
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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"The Fastest Game in the World" with Bruce Berglund
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Putin's War in Ukraine: Mobilization, Annexation, and the Coming Winter
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Putting Poland, Ukraine, and Russia in Context with Norman Davies
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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"Black Garden Aflame": The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict with Artyom Tonoyan
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Black Widows: Female Terrorists in Chechnya
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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"All Future Plunges to the Past" with José Vergara
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May 28, 2022 |
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The Far-Fetched Far Right Non-Story with Andreas Umland
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May 11, 2022 |
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Operation "Denver" and Russia's Disinformation Playbook with Douglas Selvage
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Youth Political Engagement in the 2019 Ukrainian Presidential Election
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Putin's War in Ukraine: Russian Roulette with Leonid Ragozin
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Putin's War in Ukraine: "Truth will be told" with Alex Kokcharov
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Putin's War in Ukraine: The History of the Conflict with David Marples
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Российская оппозиция: Беседа с Владимиром Кара-Мурзой
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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The Russian Opposition Today and the Legacy of Boris Nemtsov with Vladimir Kara-Murza
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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"Čas proměn": Prague in a Time of Transformation with Mark Baker
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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NATO and the "Bear in the Woods" with Sergey Radchenko
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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North Macedonia and the Mired Quest for EU Accession
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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"Long Hair Goes a Long Way": Exploring the Soviet Hippie Movement with Juliane Fürst
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Everything You Need to Know About Eastern Europe (and More!) with Tomek Jankowski
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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"From Odessa With Love" with Vladislav Davidzon
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Nord Stream 2 and You: More Than A European Problem
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Sports (History) Illustrated: Cold War Edition with Johanna Mellis
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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"And Still We Rise": Uncovering the Story of the Bosnian Genocide
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Mountains without Borders: Discovering the Carpathians with Patrice Dabrowski
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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"Frozen by the Thaw": The Soviet Masculinity Crisis of the Long Sixties with Marko Dumančić
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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The Unexplored History of the USSR, Afghanistan, and the Cold War with Timothy Nunan
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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An Intimate Look at Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia with Siobhán Hearne
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Afghanistan: A Strategic Failure with Ret. Col. Robert Hamilton
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Decolonization in Eastern Europe: A Critical Geographer's Perspective with Zoltán Ginelli
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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The Inside Scoop on "Cold War Correspondents" with Dina Fainberg
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Eurovision: More than a Song (Contest) with Sophia Kontos
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Steppe by Steppe: From America's Great Plains to Russia's Grasslands (and Back Again!) with David Moon
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May 31, 2021 |
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The Pivoting Anthropologist: From Chernobyl to Social Activism to Kurt Vonnegut to... with Sarah Phillips
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The Ghana-Soviet Connexion with Nana Osei-Opare
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Ukraine Through the Author's Pen with Oksana Lutsyshyna
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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"American Girls in Red Russia" with Julia Mickenberg
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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"Hate in the Homeland": The Global Far Right with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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"Russia Resurrected": The Paradox of the Perception of Russian Power with Kathryn Stoner
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Poison, Prison, Protests: The Continued Saga of Alexei Navalny with Mark Galeotti
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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From Red to Green: The True Nature of Environmental Activism in Russia with Angelina Davydova
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Russia's Mercurial Role in Southeast Europe (with Dimitar Bechev)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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"Mixed Messages": The Survival of the Buryat Language with Kathryn Graber
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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"How to Lose the Information War" with Nina Jankowicz (Wilson Center)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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From the Russian Far East to the American West with Matthew Luxmoore (RFE/RL)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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"Writing Resistance": An Inside Look at Russian Carceral Literature with Sarah J. Young
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Russian Meme Culture, "Shirtless Putin," and Pussy Riot with Eliot Borenstein
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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On Russia's War in Syria with Colonel (ret.) Robert Hamilton
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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The Eurasia Downbeat with Alex Kokcharov
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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"Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" with Jasmin Mujanovic
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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"Dance of Compromise": Putin's Russia, Disinformation, and the Wily Man with Joshua Yaffa
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Kyrgyzstan's Uphill Battle for Democracy with Nazgul Kulova
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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"Lukashenko Has No Future" with David Marples
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Siberian Overtones: Stories and Songs from Tuva with Dr. Susan Crate
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Living in a Post-Truth World: How Did We Get Here?
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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The Greater (Dysfunctional) Western Family with Leonid Ragozin
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Post-Election Passivity and the Poisonous Politics of Petrostates with Maria Snegovaya
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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The Hidden Green Men with Kiril Avramov
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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The Second Libyan Civil War and the Russia Connexion with Mohamed Abufalgha
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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"Rival Power: Russia's Challenge to the West in the Balkans" with Dimitar Bechev (BALKAN CIRCLE series)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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The Białowieża Forest and "Pompik the Bison" with Tomasz Samojlik
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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"The Strategist": The Legacy of Brent Scowcroft with Dr. Bartholomew Sparrow
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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"In Moscow's Shadows" with Dr. Mark Galeotti
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EDITION: The Fate of Alexei Navalny
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Belarus Elections 2020: The End of Europe's Last Dictator?
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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"A True Gentleman" with Seva Novgorodsev
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Intelligence with a Human Face (featuring Stephen Slick)
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Voices of the Past: Songs from Rural Ukraine (with Susan Crate)
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May 14, 2020 |
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"Disunited Nations" with Peter Zeihan
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May 12, 2020 |
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Вокруг света с Жанной Немцовой
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May 08, 2020 |
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World War "C": Covid, Cognitive Dissonance, and Communism (with Markos Kounalakis)
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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"It Is What It Is": Western Media, the End of the USSR, and Russia Today (with Jeff Trimble)
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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From Media Literacy to Karaoke Diplomacy (with Joe Crescente)
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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"To Russia and Beyond!" (featuring RBTH Editor-in-Chief Vsevolod Pulya)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Between Diplomacy and Propaganda: Global Engagement in the Digital Age (with Nicholas Cull)
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Музыкальное путешествие со специальным гостем Артемием Троицким
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Rock the USSR Part 2 (with Artemy Troitsky and Tom Garza)
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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"Everything is Going Extremely Well..."
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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"The Shadow in the East" with Aliide Naylor
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Soviets, Slovaks, and the Pope (with James Felak) // The Post-Socialist Effect (with Kateřina Kolářová)
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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The Future is Viral: Putin, Petroleum, and the Pandemic
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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"Our Generation" (featuring Christian Ray Flores... and his music)
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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The Filmmaker and the First Tsar: The Legend of Sergei Eisenstein (with Joan Neuberger)
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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A Little Bit Cosmopolitan (with Graham Reblitz)
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Timeless Secrets of Ancient Romania
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Shades of Red, White, and Blue: Politics and Foreign Policy Today (with Dr. Mark Pomar)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Bridging the Gap: From Campus to Career (with Tom and Tracy)
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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The Quintessential S. Ansky // The Sprit of Sakha (ASEEES)
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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"The Russia Factor": From Japan to the Crimea Consensus (ASEEES)
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Winnie the Pooh... and Brezhnev Too // Balkan Blackness (ASEEES)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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"Who Needs to Study Soviet Literature?" with Lena and Sasha
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Albania Mania: Football to Rap to Racism with Cultural Anthropologist Chelsi West Ohueri
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Jan 11, 2020 |
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Victims' State // Slavic Folklore in YA Fiction
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Urban Czech Walk // MTV & Yugoslav Rock (ASEEES 2019 Conference)
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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"Time is Profoundly Weird" with Craig Campbell
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Carpatho-Rusyn Nationality with Paul Magosci (ASEEES 2019 Conference)
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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15 Minutes with Vladimir Golstein (ASEEES 2019)
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Голос народа: СМИ, Киргизия, и гражданские права (на русском языке)
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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A Very Venezuelan Connexion: Cold War, Foreign Investment, and Oil Culture
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Journey to Lake Baikal with Dr. Evgenia Wilkins
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Q is for Qazaqstan: Independent Media, Brain Drain, and the New Alphabet
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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London Fog: Brexit and the Dubious Future of the EU
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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One Million Moments for Democracy in the Czech Republic
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Kyrgyzstan: Progressive Media, Human Rights, and the Power of Journalism (with Tom and Matt)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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ROCK THE USSR (with Tom Garza)
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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«Это не Джеймс Бонд»: от Довлатова до Пелевина (на русском языке)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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"From Saratov to the 'Silver Screen'" with Marina Alexandrova
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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"Take Me to Siberia" with Susan Crate
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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"The American Hour" with Alexander Genis
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Tongues on Fire: The Struggle for Language Survival in Eurasia
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Американская рапсодия с Мариной Александровой
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Georgia On My Mind: From Smuggled Spices to Internally Displaced Persons
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Dr. X: The Reluctant Conspiratologist
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Sep 21, 2019 |
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"Hammer and Silicon" with Dan Satinsky
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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"The Colorful Revolution" Part 2 of 2
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Season 2 Begins: "The Colorful Revolution" (Part 1)
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Тринадцать минут с Ильей Яблоковым (на русском языке)
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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"Fifty Shades of Conspiracy" with Ilya Yablokov (Part 2 of 2)
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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"Fifty Shades of Conspiracy" with Ilya Yablokov (Part 1 of 2)
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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SlavX Student Spotlight: Anna-Maria Andreeva
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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"Vampires of Serendipity" with Tom Garza
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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"The Continuity of Everything..." with John Gleb (and Matt & Tom)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Turbofolk 2: Revenge of the Balkan Divas
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Jul 06, 2019 |
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"This is NOT Propaganda..." with Peter Pomerantsev
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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One Maidan, Two Maidan, Three Maidan, Four... with Olga Onuch and Emma Mateo (Parts 1 and 2)
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May 31, 2019 |
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The Final One... of Season One
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May 24, 2019 |
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INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 5: "Annexation Agenda" and Protests in Russia and Belarus (Speaker - Aliaksandr Herasimenka)
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May 16, 2019 |
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INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 4: The World According to the Truthseekers (Speaker - Ilya Yablokov)
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May 15, 2019 |
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Russian Language Online! with Dr. Heather Rice
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May 04, 2019 |
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The Monkey Cage
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Belarus: "The Last Dictatorship of Europe" with Aliaksandr Herasimenka
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 3: "The Most Dangerous Element of Information War is the Idea of Information War Itself" (Speaker - Peter Pomerantsev)
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 2: "Analyzing Twitter Bots" (Speaker - Denis Stukal)
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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INFORMATION WARS Symposium Part 1: "Heads will Troll" (Speaker - Joshua Tucker)
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Trust Me: The Politics of Conspiracy Theory with Kiril Avramov
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Человек с Дальнего Востока (The Man From the Far East)
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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The Man From Vladivostok: Russia and the Asia-Pacific with Artyom Lukin
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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International Religious Freedom and the Case of Uzbekistan: Trading the Hammer-and-Sickle for the Moon and Star
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Black Widows of the Black Sea
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Inside Dugin's Beard with Tom & Matt
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Сeва Новгорoдцев - Рyсская слyжба Би-би-си (на русском языке)
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Adventures in Communism with Susanne Sternthal
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Turbofolk: The Music of Balkan Identity with Vladislav Beronja
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: Sevaoborot (Texas Edition) (по-русски)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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The Currency of Diplomacy and State Department "1.0" with (the one and only) John Gleb
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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Polls, Politics, and Presidents with Matt & Tom
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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David Foster Wallace Goes to Russia... in Print
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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On Democracy in Eastern Europe with Austin Sappington
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Brexit: An EU Insider's Perspective with Lorinc Redei
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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From Radio Free Europe to the US Russia Foundation with Mark Pomar
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Baltics and Basketball with Audrius Rickus
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Let's Talk Nationalism with Jonathan Parker
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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The Vietnam Connexion with Mark Lawrence
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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The Full Scoop on Bulgarian Yogurt with Mary Neuburger
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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"Don't argue with a geographer" with Bella Bychkova Jordan
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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The International Breakdown with Dr. Michael Mosser
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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"Soviet Union Lite" with Mark Pomar
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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All About Civics (with Matthew Orr)
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Mar 11, 2019 |