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The Ukraine War Ep. 1: The Eve of the War

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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The Russo-Ukrainian Revolution

Vlad Mcknenko: Ukraine's political economy and post-commerce transition has been along in our last process. He says Russia was playing its own game, threatening devastating trade sanctions on Ukraine if it signed the EU deal. In the final moment, President Yanukovych refused to sign it and that provoked the beginnings of the revolution. The use of anonymous snipers had all the hallmarks of Putin's Russia, he adds.

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