Silicon Curtain

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September 17, 2023 250. John Foreman CBE - Russia's Leaders Lied About Their Intentions: Now Putin's War is Consuming Russia
GUEST: John Foreman CBE - Adviser to UK government on Russian military and
security affairs.
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INTRO:
As the UK Defence Attache to the Russian Federation from 2019 to 2022,
John Foreman CBE advised senior UK officials and ministers on Russian
military and security affairs and represented the UK Chief of Defence
Staff to the Russian General Staff. He had a front-row seat for the
tense meetings and negotiations that immediately preceded Russia’s
full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022.
#johnforeman #TonyRadakin #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr

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SPEAKER:
John Foreman CBE is an independent consultant specialising in Russia,
Ukraine, and international security, with over 20 years of diplomatic,
operational, and corporate experience in the defence and security
sector. He facilitated the largest UK ministerial/defence visit to
Moscow since 1944, negotiated a bilateral treaty to reduce operational
risk, and informed UK Russia policy and strategy. Currently, he is a
visiting lecturer to King's College London, a mentor to future UK
defence attaches and advisors, and a RAND Europe associate. He has a
lifelong interest in Russia, Ukraine, their languages, peoples,
cultures, and histories. He was appointed CBE in the 2023 New Year's
Honours for his service.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/exexpat19
https://www.ambassadorllp.com/who-we-are/john-foreman

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September 16, 2023 251. Anastasiya Shapochkina - Grain. Energy. Fuel. There's Nothing Russia won’t Weaponize in Order to Win
GUEST: Anastasiya Shapochkina - Founder and president of Eastern
Circles, and energy industry expert.
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INTRO:
Grain. Energy. Fuel. There seems to be nothing Russia won’t weaponize to
achieve its imperialistic and expansionist ambitions. But are all these
strategies now failing? Will Russia face a perfect storm of battlefield
losses combined with losses in its hybrid economic warfare?
#AnastasiyaShapochkina #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war
#disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr

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SPEAKER:
Anastasiya Shapochkina is Founder and president of Eastern Circles, she
has 11 years of experience in consulting and energy industry, where she
worked on companies, technologies and market analysis in the renewable
energy, utilities, nuclear energy, and e-mobility. She led development
of international cross-industry partnership research projects on these
subjects and represented business in European industrial and research
associations. Anastasiya is a lecturer on geopolitics in Sciences Po
Paris since 2012, focusing on the role of business in the EU-Russia
relations. Anastasiya is author of articles on the geopolitics and
geoeconomics in the Former Soviet Union, she has regular TV and radio
appearances. Anastasiya graduated from Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service, German, and European Studies Program.
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LINKS:
https://easterncircles.com/en-about
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiya-shapochkina-96081b5/
https://cges.georgetown.edu/profile/anastasiya-shapochkina/
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September 14, 2023 248. James Sherr - Russia’s Sovereignty is not Directly Threatened so Why is Putin Embracing Total War?
The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is
scaling up, with the expected provisions of ATACMS and F16s, but
remains inadequate to the task of achieving a full victory and often
lags dangerously behind requirements, which causes the war to be more
protracted, resulting in a greater loss of life on the Ukrainian side.
Russia poses a serious threat to the rules-based international order,
but is the West’s response insufficiently robust in defence of the
values it espouses? A recent Chatham House report rang alarm bells and
recommended that Western military support to Kyiv should be redoubled
before it is too late.
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James Sherr OBE has been a senior fellow of the International Centre for Defence & Security in Tallinn since 2019. He also is an associate fellow and former head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (2008–11). He was a member of the Social Studies Faculty of Oxford University from 1993 to 2012; a fellow of the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence from 1995 to 2008; and director of studies of the Royal United Services Institute (1983–85). He has published extensively on Soviet and Russian military, security, and foreign policy, as well as energy security, the Black Sea region, and Ukraine’s efforts to deal with Russia, the West, and its own domestic problems. He was awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List for his services to British interests overseas.
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LINKS:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine
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September 13, 2023 247. Dr Jade McGlynn - The Kremlin sees Historical Memory as Potent, Malleable, Controllable & Dangerous.
GUEST: Dr Jade McGlynn - Russia specialist, researcher and author.
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INTRO:
In just a few years, Russia has moved from a narrative about ‘brotherly
peoples’, to genocidal rhetoric and actions in Ukraine. How was
historical memory manipulated to make this happen?
#jademcglynn #russiaswar #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war
#disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr

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SPEAKER:
Dr Jade McGlynn is a Russia specialist and experienced researcher. She
is Senior Research Associate (Non-Resident) at the Centre for Strategic
and International Studies. She is also a Research Fellow at the
Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Jade is a Polyglot
political analyst with experience of living and working in several
European countries. She has a PhD in Russian from the University of
Oxford, with academic fellowships from Leverhulme, AHRC, Marie Curie,
and Carnegie and has held positions in Russia, the UK, and US. She is
the author of scholarly works as well as media articles and has a new
book coming out in March 2023 – Russia’s War and Memory Makers.
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LINKS:
https://jademcglynn.com/
https://twitter.com/DrJadeMcGlynn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jade-mcglynn-341357209/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ceelbas/jade-mcglynn-oxford
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-jade-mcglynn
https://www.csis.org/people/jade-mcglynn
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BOOKS:
Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia (2023)
Russia's War (2023)
Rethinking Period Boundaries:
New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European
History and Culture (2022)

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September 13, 2023 245. Dr Allyson Edwards - The Red Fortress Returns - Militarisation of Youth and Manipulation of History.
GUEST: Dr Allyson Edwards - Lecturer and expert in Russian militarism
and patriotic education.
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INTRO:
In today’s interview we are exploring the militarisation of youth and
manipulation of history with Allyson Edwards. This is an incredibly
important issue, as rather than seeking a way out of is disastrous and
brutal war in Ukraine, Russia seems to be doubling down, and preparing
its people for future conflicts through patriotic education – for a
society built on eternal warfare and confrontation.
#allysonedwards #militarisation #youtharmy #indocrtrination #militarism #radicalisation #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr #conscription

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SPEAKER:
Dr Allyson Edwards is a Lecturer at Bath Spa University and expert in
Russian militarism, youth, memory & patriotic education.
Specifically, she researches militarism in Post-Soviet Russia. She is
currently working on turning her thesis into book, and her research
interests include militarism, cultural Militarisation in Russia and
Eurasia, the Cold War, as well as the commemoration and use of memory in
politics and educational spaces.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/AllysonEdwards1
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/allyson-edwards/
https://www.fpri.org/contributor/allyson-edwards/
https://ridl.io/auth/allyson-edwards/

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September 12, 2023 Silicon Bites - #17 - Comrade Musk Apparently Intervenes in Favour Russia - will he Prolong the War?
Edition No17 | 08-09-2023
Is Elon Musk collaborating with Russia, and have his actions given then
an advantage in the war?
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NEWS LINKS:
Kyiv Independent
https://kyivindependent.com/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russia-moving-troops-to-southern-front-line-to-strengthen-defense-kyiv-says/
The Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/08/drones-target-russian-microchip-plant-reports-a82397
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/08/vote-fraud-reported-as-russian-local-regional-elections-get-underway-a82399
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/advocating-for-war-is-wrong-russian-teachers-resign-over-refusal-to-allow-ukraine-veterans-in-class-a82388
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/russia-pressures-migrant-workers-with-raids-military-summons-a82303
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/05/the-wests-reliance-on-russian-nuclear-fuel-funds-moscows-war-a82356
Russian Media Monitor
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews

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September 12, 2023 244. Grigor Atanesian - Putin Believes the Digital Information Space is a Battlefield - That We're at war
GUEST: Grigor Atanesian - investigative journalist at the BBC.
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INTRO:
Vladimir Putin believes that the digital information space is a
battlefield, yet we in the West are perhaps late to realise that fact.
The rise of the internet in the 21st century has been accompanied by
unprecedented levels of polarisation, division, and coercion. At the
same time democracies are being hit by a huge range of different, and
rapidly evolving hostile state activities. Not all of them have their
origins in Russia, though clearly many do, and the scale of the threat
is only likely to increase in future.
#ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war
#disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr

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SPEAKER:
Grigor Atanesian is an investigative journalist with the BBC. He was
producer for the “Trauma Zone” documentary series by Adam Curtis (BBC
Film), and the Associate Producer for “Can't Get You Out of My Head”
documentary series by Adam Curtis (BBC Film). As part of the team that
created the unique and powerful 'Trauma Zone' BBC documentary, he was
awarded a BAFTA for Specialist Factual programmes in 2023.
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LINKS:
Putin’s Influencers: The bloggers selling Russia’s War - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_8tYjsFKFw
Russian pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from
their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC’s Global
Disinformation Team has found. Known in Russia as “Z Bloggers”, they
spread fake news about the war by embedding with military units, sharing
exclusive footage from the frontline, and calling upon young Russians
to enlist in the army.
Graphics: Kako Abraham
Film Editor: Ismail Guluev
Narrator: Jack Goodman
Assistant Producers: Sucheera Maguire, Jake Tacchi
Editor: Juliana Gragnani
Executive Editor: Rebecca Skippage
Written & Produced by: Grigor Atanesian
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September 05, 2023 173. Svitlana Biedarieva - Documentation of War in Ukrainian Art - Decolonisation and Ukrainian Identity.
SPEAKER:
Today I’m speaking with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva is an award-winning art
historian, artist, and curator. She has conducted research on Ukraine's
decolonization, as well as the documentation of the war in Ukrainian
art. Her recent edited books include Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic
Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021 and At the Front Line.
Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019 (co-edited with Hanna Deikun). She received
her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art,
University of London.
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LINKS:
https://svitlanabiedarieva.com/
https://twitter.com/SBiedarieva
https://www.linkedin.com/in/svitlana-biedarieva-55828b45/
https://post.moma.org/decolonization-and-disentanglement-in-ukrainian-art/

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LIST OF WORKS AND ARTISTS:
Dana Kavelina
1-2. Letter to a Turtledove, 2020.
3-4. From the series Communications. Exit to the Blind Spot, 2019.
Vlada Ralko
5-6. From the series Kyiv Diary, 2013-2014.
7. Demarcation Line, 2018.
8-10. From the series Lviv Diary, 2022.
Zhanna Kadyrova
11-12. Palianytsia, 2022.
13. From the series Behind the Fence, 2014.
14. Data Extraction. Irpin, 2022.
Kateryna Lysovenko
15. Untitled, 2022.
16. Propaganda of The World of My Dreams. The Last Day of The Last
Totalitarianism, 2022.
17. Being Under Knowledge, 2022.
18. Woman and Death, 2022.
Svitlana Biedarieva
19-20. From the series The Morphology of War, 2017.
Alevtina Kakhidze
21-22. From the series Through the War with Strawberry Andreevna,
2014-2019.
23. Russian Culture is Looking for an Alibi that It Is Not a Killer,
2022.
24. Bucha. Me. 42 Minutes by Car, 2022.
Maria Kulikovska
25. 254”, 2015.
26. Stardust, 2018.
27. The Forgotten (Recreation of Homo Bulla destroyed by DPR in 2014),
2019.
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WATCH NEXT:
Orest Zub
https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ
Aliona Hlivco
https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8
Olga Tokariuk
https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs
Anna Danylchuk
https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs
Roman Sheremeta
https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM

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September 05, 2023 225. Noel Tock - Animal Rescuer at NOR DOG - Helping Animals that lost Everything during the Ukraine War.
See more of Noel in the Silicon Curtain video recorded in Lviv:
PANEL 1 (11:00-12:00) – Volunteer Society
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SPEAKERS:
Volunteering on a massive scale proved what is possible to achieve.
Ukrainian volunteers play at integral role in resisting agains the
Russian aggression and saving lives.
Noel Tock - Animal Rescuer at NOR DOG
Johnny FD - YouTuber and Digital Nomad
Brooks Newmark - Founder of Angels for Ukraine
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
NOR DOG Animal Rescue - Our mission is to help the animals suffering
from the war in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/@nordoganimalrescue3564
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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WATCH NEXT:
Johnny FD
https://youtu.be/9KgJAsIWe5E
Brooks Newmark
https://youtu.be/J1BnzTdF3Ts

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September 02, 2023 235. Olha Honchar - Russia has Failed to Acknowledge the Crimes of its Imperialistic Totalitarian History
Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated significantly this year, but
did not start in February last year, or even in 2014. Its roots are far
deeper, and more malign than just territorial ambitions. Today I am
exploring how tyranny left unchallenged with continue to fester and
project aggression towards its neighbours. Russia’s attempts to dominate
Ukraine have deep roots in its Soviet and imperialist past and are very
much a result of the failure to acknowledge the crimes of its
totalitarian history.
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Olha Honchar is CEO of the “Museum Crisis Centre” initiative, which
arose in the first days of the Russian war against Ukraine. Co-founder
of the NGO “New Museum” and the Charitable Organization “Cultural
Heritage Fund of Ukraine”. Olha is a culturologist, anti-crisis manager
and Director of the Memorial Museum of totalitarian regimes “Territory
of Terror” in Lviv. Ahe is an internationally recognised curator of
interdisciplinary projects in the field of historical memory and trauma.
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LINKS:
https://museumterror.com/en/publications_category/all/
https://www.instagram.com/honchar_o/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olha-honchar-b7b63374/
https://bookforum.ua/en/participants/13271
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ARTICLES:
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/39379
https://www.frieze.com/article/olha-honchar-ukraine-dossier-232
https://uacrisis.org/en/62144-olha-honchar
https://atmos.earth/ukraine-war-culture-art-musem-loss-destruction/
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220314/Art-and-the-telling-of-Ukraine-s-story
https://tvoemisto.tv/en/exclusive/we_want_to_survive_not_starve_to_death_and_preserve_the_museum_exhibits_137772.html
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/ukraines-war-museums-are-documenting-history-as-it-happens/
https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/kultur/krieg-in-der-ukraine-schutz-von-kulturguetern-gibt-es-fuer-ukrainische-kunstschaetze-asyl-in-schweizer-museen-ld.2272530
https://hyperallergic.com/719347/this-group-is-helping-museum-workers-in-ukraine/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ukrainians-in-race-to-save-a-nations-cultural-heritage
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/arts/design/ukraine-museums-art-protection.html
https://artreview.com/art-workers-at-war-how-the-ukrainian-artworld-has-rallied-to-protect-cultural-heritage/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fD--hKZPjQ
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