Kremlin File

Olga and Mo are joined by veteran diplomat and former ambassador of Poland, Daniel Fried, who currently serves as a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council.  

In the course of his forty-year Foreign Service career, Ambassador Fried played a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. As Special Assistant and NSC Senior Director for Presidents Clinton and Bush, Ambassador to Poland, and Assistant Secretary for Europe, he helped craft the policy of NATO enlargement to Central European nations and, in parallel, NATO-Russia relations. Twitter: @AmbDanFried 

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What do Russians think about Putin’s war? Karine Orlova returns to Kremlin File to discuss the sentiment inside Russia against Putin’s latest war crimes campaign. 

Karine Orlova is a Russian journalist in exile, former contributing writer for The American Interest magazine, former correspondent for Echo of Moscow, which was cut off air and shut down after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. 

https://twitter.com/OrlovaKarine

https://substack.com/profile/88924046-karineorlova 

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Olga and Mo are joined by Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist and watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. With Putin lashing out on the world stage and purging the ranks, Andrei shares his POV on Russia's failure in Ukraine and who is to blame.

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He’s been covering security services and terrorism since 1999. He is co-author with Irina Borogan of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, and most recently, The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. He is also a senior fellow at CEPA and contributes to the Moscow Times and various international publications.

https://twitter.com/andreisoldatov

https://cepa.org/our-people/andrei-soldatov/

https://agentura.ru/

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Inna Sovsun joins Olga and Mo to discuss how she and other MPs and Ukrainian citizens are facing the realities of Russia’s assault and war crimes. Inna is a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, and she shares a very personal account from a position of leadership in a country under siege. 

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Olga and Mo are joined by Andrea Chalupa - a journalist, filmmaker, and co-host of the excellent podcast GASLIT NATION.

Andrea is also a founder of DigitalMaidan, an online movement that made the Ukrainian protests the #1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide at a time when the mainstream media was obsessing over Justin Bieber’s arrest in Miami. 

https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa

http://www.andreachalupa.com/

https://twitter.com/Gaslitnation 

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Olga and Mo are joined by Kremlin File producer Jack Bryan to detail how Russia’s recently launched disinformation troll farm is targeting Ukraine and their place in Russian Hybrid warfare.

For further reading, please check out co-host Olga Lautman’s substack article:

https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/operation-cyber-front-z-russia-sets?s=r

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Olga and Mo are joined by Dr. Alina Polyakova of CEPA to discuss how the Transatlantic Alliance is standing up to Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine.

Dr. Polyakova heads up the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and is a recognized expert on transatlantic relations, European security, Russian foreign policy, digital authoritarianism, and populism in democracies.

https://twitter.com/apolyakova 

https://cepa.org/ 

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Olga and Mo are joined by retired Major General Paul Eaton who discusses Russia’s shift in military tactics as they continue their assault on Ukraine. Russia is taking heavy military losses and are now targeting civilians.

Paul D. Eaton is the Director of VetVoiceFoundation and advisor to VoteVets.

https://twitter.com/PaulDEaton52

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Olga and Mo are joined by Yevhen Fedchenko - a Ukrainian pioneer in combating disinformation and co-founder of StopFake.org. Since 2014, StopFake has debunked over 4,000 Russian fake videos and news stories, and his team trains people from all over the world on debunking disinformation and investigating influence campaigns. 

https://www.stopfake.org/ 

https://twitter.com/yevhenfedchenko

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Maria Avdeeva, a Ukrainian disinformation and national security expert, joins us from the ground in Kharkiv where she’s documenting the truth about the Russian invasion.

https://twitter.com/maria_avdv

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