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Bohdana Neborak is Editor in Chief at The Ukrainians. She is host of an award-winning video project about decolonization («Наразі без назви»). Bohdana is ex-Head of the Translation Department at the Ukrainian Book Institute, and had a seven-year career in journalism, writing about culture and the creative industries. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://theukrainians.org/ https://twitter.com/BohdanaNeborak https://book.artarsenal.in.ua/en/guest-23/bohdana-neborak/ https://www.apofenie.com/interviews/2022/4/20/interview-bohdana-neborak ---------- WATCH NEXT: Oleksandr Kraiev https://youtu.be/tbucZuR6CqI Eugen Fedchenko https://youtu.be/YDi5IKtlv1M Valeria Kovtun https://youtu.be/l7zw1L12ZVg Oleksandra Tsekhanovska https://youtu.be/sgwt2XwIS3k Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/b6Y0lHUqpeo ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Ukraine has been transformed into a society with the most active volunteer groups in the world - and has a dynamic civil society and donation culture. In addition, Ukraine’s diaspora of professionals and refugees are playing an extraordinary role in support Ukraine, both materially, but also by raising awareness of it’s cause in their host countries and within the international community. Today I am speaking with Julia Tymoshenko, who is Fighting for Ukraine on the informational front – running Marketing and Communications for Saint Javelin and as Editor and interviewer at Ukrainer. ---------- LINKS: https://www.instagram.com/yulia_tymosha/ https://www.saintjavelin.com/ https://ukrainer.net/en/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- #saintjavelin #ukrainer #juliatymoshenko #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- WATCH NEXT: Oleksandr Kraiev https://youtu.be/tbucZuR6CqI Eugen Fedchenko https://youtu.be/YDi5IKtlv1M Valeria Kovtun https://youtu.be/l7zw1L12ZVg Oleksandra Tsekhanovska https://youtu.be/sgwt2XwIS3k Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/b6Y0lHUqpeo ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Edition No24 | 18-11-2023 In order to avoid criticism of its handling of the war, the Kremlin tries to prevent conscripts from ever returning to Russia. Only martyrs required - No Russians get out of this war alive. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ WARNING - Graphic and distressing content https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1725220710220521767 https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1724546144712184275 https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1724463635949408359 The Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-316-760-troops-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainians-step-up-efforts-to-cross-dnipro-tie-up-russian-forces-in-kherson/ https://kyivindependent.com/none-of-it-made-any-sense-understanding-russias-disastrous-offensive-on-avdiivka/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russia-admits-ukrainian-troops-operate-on-dnipro-rivers-occupied-east-bank/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-artillery-munition-deliveries-to-ukraine-have-decreased-since-israel-hamas-war/ https://kyivindependent.com/biden-signs-temporary-spending-bill-without-aid-for-ukraine-israel/ https://kyivindependent.com/we-cant-allow-putin-to-prevail-says-speaker-johnson-after-being-elected-but-his-track-record-says-opposite/ https://kyivindependent.com/bbc-20-000-ukrainian-men-have-illegally-crossed-border-since-february-2022/ https://kyivindependent.com/video/?slug=explaining-polish-trucker-protests-at-ukrainian-border https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-kremlin-planning-campaign-to-destabilize-ukraine-potential-coup/ https://kyivindependent.com/putins-liberal-team-economic-geniuses-or-accomplices-in-aggression/ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/16/what-does-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east-mean-for-ukraine-a83134 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/17/is-russia-heading-toward-an-abortion-ban-a83144 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/16/i-just-wanted-to-stop-the-war-russian-artist-sentenced-to-7-years-for-price-tag-protest-a83019 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

INTRO: There are many scenarios of what a post-Putin Russia would look like, especially following a substantial defeat in Ukraine. The obvious one, is to assume that a humiliated Russia would blame the West for its defeat and seek revenge, forcing the collective West to rearm and prepare for the next act of aggression by the Russian imperium. But reality has a way of throwing surprises, and we can’t discount the scenario of a weak and fragmented Russia actually embarking on reforms and changes that begin the process of democratic transition and reconciliation. While seemingly unlikely, should we nonetheless be preparing to engage if Russia takes this course, and is there anything we can do to promote an outcome that will be far more beneficial for us, and potentially for Russians themselves? ---------- ABOUT: Dr Stephen Hall is an Associate Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Dr Stephen Hall is a Lecturer (and Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, at the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at the University of Bath. He is a specialist on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus and on authoritarian regions. He received his PhD from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively in Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics, Post-Communist Economies, Russian Politics, and the Journal of Eurasian Studies. His book entitled The Authoritarian International: Tracing how Authoritarian Regimes Learn in the Post-Soviet Space came out in 2023 with Cambridge University Press. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/getting-a-foot-in-the-door-creating-a-future-russia-now/ ---------- LINKS: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/staff/dr-stephen-g-f-hall/ https://twitter.com/stephengfhall https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-g-f-hall-7313b942/ ---------- BOOKS: Authoritarian International https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authoritarian-international/4B49766C0CC9ACE7F2522ECB5AB804B8#fndtn-metrics ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ ----------

GUEST: Henry J. Hendrix - Retired US Navy captain, defence analyst, historian and curator. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- SPEAKER: Henry J. Hendrix is a retired United States Navy captain. He has served as an American defence analyst, an official historian and curator of the Navy and an author. His written work has focused on the composition of the United States Navy force, the structure of the Navy, the role of the aircraft carrier in modern strategic environments and the structure of the carrier air wing. He also publicly supported a recent plan to build a 350-ship Navy. Jerry Hendrix is President of Hendrix and Associates. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/JerryHendrixII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Hendrix https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dr-jerry-hendrix/ https://www.usni.org/people/jerry-hendrix https://www.cnas.org/people/dr-jerry-hendrix https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-hendrix-9599684/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-navy-oceanic-trade-impact-russia-china/673090/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: John Sipher https://youtu.be/h_0Wbn3T0XE David Satter https://youtu.be/Fi9ubrm1Yk8 Mark Galeotti https://youtu.be/KJl6C2WQ8cE Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/1nRItDXm1LA ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Dr Benjamin Tallis is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the project “Action Group Zeitenwende” on the transformation of Germany’s security and foreign policy, and where he hosts the podcast "Berlin Inside Out". He previously worked for the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and was policy officer at the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin. Benjamin spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague where he headed the Centre for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives. Benjamin regularly appears in the media, and has been published in Foreign Policy, Politico, The Independent, and in leading academic journals. He is the author of the books To Ukraine with Love: Essays on Russia’s War and Europe’s Future (2022) and Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility, and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine (2023). ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/bctallis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-tallis-b02a386/ https://berlinsideout.podigee.io/ https://dgap.org/en/user/28265 https://foreignpolicy.com/author/benjamin-tallis/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/author/benjamin-tallis/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/germany-should-create-a-new-stereotype-for-itself-team-power/ https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-leopard-2-tanks-zeitenwende-russia-ukraine-war-nato/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/14/europe-military-alliance-britain-poland-ukraine/ ---------- LINKS: https://ecfr.eu/profile/gustav_gressel/ https://twitter.com/GresselGustav ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ ----------

Ukraine’s counteroffensive has reached a transition point – not a point of failure, as it has been labelled by some commentators and media sources. We are 20 months into a war that Gen. Mark Milley said would last three days. Russian planners estimated 10 days. A Ukrainian military once considered inferior to Russia’s has militarily defeating Russians on every battlefield in Ukraine. They have killed more than 300,000 Russian soldiers, and according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, “recaptured half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion.” That is not failure. ---------- Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events. Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur and has lived in US diplomatic and military communities around the world. Mark writes on issues of National Security and Foreign Policy and is a regular contributor to The Hill, BBC, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Kyiv Post and The Messenger. ---------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4299756-its-decision-time-in-ukraine-will-biden-make-the-right-choice/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4133192-putin-is-losing-his-war-but-his-threats-of-armageddon-keep-working/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4007441-the-collapse-of-russian-influence-is-widening/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4202074-putins-kingdom-of-the-dead/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4166675-for-ukraine-its-crimea-or-bust/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com

“As the world watches two Russian thugs fight it out, it’s important to remember that both of them have been, and still are, implicated in Russia’s ongoing genocide in Ukraine.” This is taken from an article written by Alexander Motyl in The Hill, dated 28th June 2023. ------- Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and artist. He lives in New York and is a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Alexander is a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union. He has taught at Columbia University, Lehigh University, the Ukrainian Free University, the Kyiv-Mohyla University, and Harvard University. Aside from academic work, he also writes opinion columns in publications such as Foreign Policy, Forty-Five, The Hill and the Kyiv Post. ------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-motyl-9847877/ https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/alexander-motyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_J._Motyl ------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4303178-why-do-russian-soldiers-keep-marching-into-slaughter/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/05/russia-ukraine-empire-imperialism-war/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4283716-reports-of-putins-death-might-not-be-greatly-exaggerated/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/07/russia-ukraine-putin-collapse-disintegration-civil-war-empire/ https://euobserver.com/opinion/156539 https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4233203-when-foreign-policy-realists-are-naive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3873506-why-doesnt-the-global-south-support-ukraines-anti-colonial-struggle/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4264589-is-russia-a-civilization/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4162176-the-wrong-way-to-talk-about-ukraines-counteroffensive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3884025-its-not-nato-putin-always-has-had-expansionist-designs/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3818390-in-ukraine-nothing-except-for-a-great-emptiness-inside/ ------- BOOKS: Academic books The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 (1980) Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (1987) Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (1990) Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism, (1993) Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (1999) Imperial Ends: The Decline, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001) Ukraine vs Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War (2017) Bits and Pieces (2020) National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe (2022) Editor Between America and Galicia: The Memoirs of Maria and Alexander Motyl (2019) The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (2016) The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (2012) Russia’s Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Blair Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova (2005) The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, 2 vols. (2000) -------

Edition No23 | 11-11-2023 Russia returns to terror threats, as it flaunts its Nuclear capabilities to intimidate the Allies supporting Ukraine militarily. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS ITEMS: https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/08/russian-singer-shaman-simulates-a-nuclear-attack-during-concert-19781777/ https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-russia-post-video-simulation-nuclear-attack-us-1841172 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/vladimir-putin-withdraws-russia-ratification-nuclear-test-ban-treaty-criticism https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/19/russias-lavrov-says-west-needs-continual-reminder-of-risks-of-nuclear-war https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/putin-filmed-china-accompanied-by-officers-with-russian-nuclear-briefcase-2023-10-18/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/09/stalemate-in-ukraine-is-the-hesitant-wests-fault-a83049 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-moves-one-step-closer-to-joining-eu-whats-next/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainians-step-up-efforts-to-cross-dnipro-tie-up-russian-forces-in-kherson/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-eu-unlikely-to-deliver-1-million-artillery-shells-to-ukraine-by-march-2024-bloomberg-reports/ https://kyivindependent.com/poll-44-of-ukrainians-have-war-zone-experience/ https://kyivindependent.com/investigative-stories-from-ukraine-authorities-yet-to-seize-assets-of-putins-ex-right-hand-man/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/10/kremlin-says-convicts-fighting-in-ukraine-atone-for-crimes-with-blood-a83070 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/08/opinions/ukraine-russia-stalemate-nato-mcglynn/index.html ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

Gustav Gressel is a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Berlin office. His topics of focus include Russia, Eastern Europe, and defence policy, Russia, armed conflict missile defence and proliferation. Before joining ECFR, Gressel worked as a desk officer for international security policy and strategy in the Bureau for Security Policy of the Austrian Ministry of Defence, and as a research fellow of the Commissioner for Strategic Studies with the Austrian MoD from. He was also a research fellow with the International Institute for Liberal Politics in Vienna. Before his academic career he served five years in the Austrian Armed Forces. Gressel have appeared in media such as the New York Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Kyiv Post, the Moscow Times, the Telegraph, the Economist, Newsweek, Deutsche Welle, and many more. ---------- LINKS: https://ecfr.eu/profile/gustav_gressel/ https://twitter.com/GresselGustav ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/