โUkraine is not just a neighboring country for us,โ declared Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. โIt is an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space.โ This conception of Ukrainian history forms the bedrock of Putinโs justification for invading the former Soviet republic, independent since 1991. On this weekโs podcast, Ryan Grim talks with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko about his countryโs history, from the Dark Ages up the current war. They discuss Ukraineโs history of anarchist politics, the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution that toppled pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych, and the tangled question of modern Ukrainian identity.
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