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Explaining Ukraine

by UkraineWorld

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

100 episodes
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1
Why the world needs Ukraine’s war tech - with Yulia Marushevska
41:20 Mar 16, 2026
2
Decoding Trump’s Ukraine policy - with Christopher Atwood
49:45 Feb 19, 2026
3
Russia's energy terror against Ukraine - with Oksana Ishchuk
39:25 Feb 10, 2026
4
Can Ukraine win the technological war? - with Volodymyr Havrylov
52:15 Feb 5, 2026
5
Cities without kings: humanity's prehistory on Ukrainian soil — with David Wengrow
52:27 Jan 28, 2026
6
Ukraine in 2025: can peace talks succeed?
48:16 Dec 17, 2025
7
How Ukrainians fund their own defense: the story of “Come Back Alive”
42:56 Dec 8, 2025
8
Ukrainian geopolitical thought - with Danylo Lubkivsky
47:40 Dec 1, 2025
9
Why the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is unique - with Natalia Shlikhta
49:04 Nov 28, 2025
10
Ukrainian culture: how to reassemble a broken picture - with Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
46:01 Nov 27, 2025
11
How Russia built its myth of Kyiv - with Kateryna Dysa
42:13 Nov 21, 2025
12
Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviychuk on Ukraine’s Moral Core
46:41 Nov 19, 2025
13
Being a Ukrainian soldier - what is it like? - with Vladyslav Urubkov
50:14 Nov 3, 2025
14
Why Europe’s security depends on Ukraine - with Yevhen Hlibovytskyi
46:13 Oct 30, 2025
15
How to rediscover Ukraine: the story of Ukraïner - with Julia Tymoshenko
50:03 Oct 28, 2025
16
Ukrainian children, kidnapped and reprogrammed by Russia - with Kateryna Rashevska
44:25 Oct 27, 2025
17
Where Ukrainians get their news in war - with Kostiantyn Kvurt
46:13 Oct 23, 2025
18
Timothy Snyder on why history matters — and how we get it wrong
1:32:14 Oct 21, 2025
19
A Brief History (and Present) of Ukrainian Theatre — with Mayhill Fowler
45:28 Oct 17, 2025
20
How Poetry Shaped the Ukrainian Nation — with Rory Finnin
40:16 Oct 15, 2025
21
Niall Ferguson on Empires, Networks, and Ukraine
32:38 Oct 13, 2025
22
How Ukraine fights Russian drones - with Taras Tymochko
47:10 Oct 10, 2025
23
How Ukraine's IT keeps surprising the world - with Taras Tymoshchuk
44:58 Sep 29, 2025
24
Why Ukrainian History Matters Globally — with Yaroslav Hrytsak
50:16 Sep 25, 2025
25
Can Security Guarantees Stop Russia’s War? — with Hanna Shelest
57:16 Sep 18, 2025
26
Сaptivity, torture, violence, and love - with Maksym Butkevych
46:21 Sep 16, 2025
27
Ukraine vs Russia: who leads the tech battle? - with Glib Voloskyi
44:40 Aug 22, 2025
28
How Russians hunt civilians in Kherson - with Zarina Zabrisky
51:56 Aug 19, 2025
29
Why Trump’s Ukraine plan won’t work - with Tetyana Ogarkova
42:45 Aug 12, 2025
30
Russian war crimes explained by Nobel-winning Ukrainian NGO - with Oleksandra Romantsova
52:17 Aug 11, 2025
31
What research tells us about the Ukrainian army - with Oleksiy Moskalenko
49:20 Aug 7, 2025
32
How Does Ukraine Talk to the Wider World? We Asked the Ukrainian Institute
51:31 Jul 29, 2025
33
Why colonialism is more complicated than you think - with Botakoz Kassymbekova
1:01:39 Jul 28, 2025
34
Why Russia fears Ukrainian literature - with Myroslav Shkandrij
48:09 Jul 23, 2025
35
His callsign is Caesar, he’s British, and he fights for Ukraine
35:10 Jul 15, 2025
36
Propaganda: shaping narratives in times of war. A public discussion at CEU, Vienna
1:57:48 Jul 9, 2025
37
Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Failures of Neoliberalism and Sanctions Against Russia
31:26 Jul 7, 2025
38
How Drones Are Dramatically Changing the War – with Nataliya Gumenyuk
53:03 Jul 4, 2025
39
Look at Georgia to Better Understand Ukraine and Russia – with Tornike Gordadze
41:54 Jul 3, 2025
40
Hannah Arendt on evil: what can we learn from her today? - with Marci Shore
51:55 Jun 20, 2025
41
How to win an information war? - with Peter Pomerantsev
52:51 Jun 19, 2025
42
Black Americans and Ukrainians: Unexpected Parallels – with Terrell Jermaine Starr
43:14 Jun 12, 2025
43
Ukraine and Democracy in the Global World – with Aman Sethi
47:13 Jun 4, 2025
44
Ukrainian Media During the War – with Ola Myrovych
44:10 May 30, 2025
45
Anne Applebaum on Trump, Ukraine, and Russia
46:38 May 28, 2025
46
A Brief History of Russian Imperialism – with Donnacha Ó Beacháin
1:00:25 May 27, 2025
47
Exploring Ukrainian avant-garde: Oleksandra Ekster
44:00 May 23, 2025
48
Thinking in Dark Times. Lessons from Ukraine. - Volodymyr Yermolenko at IWM in Vienna
1:26:46 May 20, 2025
49
Ukraine, Sri Lanka, and the War Experience - with V. V. Ganeshananthan
48:34 May 16, 2025
50
What matters during dark times? | Czyżewski, Shore, Pezuashvili, Yermolenko
1:57:03 May 14, 2025
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