Guest:

Brian Milakovsky works a consultant for international projects on economic recovery in the Donbas and writes about the economy of that region for outlets such as the Kennan Institute, the National Interest and OpenDemocracy Russia. He has been working in Ukraine and Russia since 2009 on ecological and development issues. His most recent article is “On the Edge: War and Industrial Crisis in Luhansk Oblast.”

Listen to past interviews with Brian Milakovsky on internally displaced persons and the Donbas.

You can listen the Russia Guy podcast I mention on Zakharchenko’s assassination.

Music:

Public Enemy, “Raw Shit,” Rebirth of a Nation, 2005.