In this episode hosts Maciek Makulski and Adam Reichardt look at some current developments in the region. Maksym Khylko, chairman of the board at the East European Security Research Initiative Foundation and Senior Research Fellow at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, provides his commentary on the situation with the Russian capture of three Ukrainian vessels and the imposition of Martial Law in Ukraine.  Maciek Makulski looks at the newest book on Transnistrian identity by Piotr Oleksty – a Polish expert. Adam Reichardt then interviews Oleksy, about the current political developments in Moldova and they discuss his new book.
Read the article “Old Moldova in New Europe” online: http://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/11/05/old-moldova-new-europe/
 
Highlights:
04.23 Commentary by Maksym Khylko on Russian attack on Ukrainian naval vessels in Kerch strait
12.10 – interview with Piotr Oleksy author of “Old Moldova in New Europe” and the recent book Naddniestrze. Terror tożsamości
 
Music featured in the podcast licensed under the Creative Commons license 3.0
Opening theme: Sum of My Fears by Dazie Mae: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dazie_Mae/Last_Jazz_in_Paris/03-1518107-Dazie_Mae-Sum_of_My_Fears
Also in this podcast:
Dark Water by Podington Bear: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Fathomless_-_Ambient/Dark_Water
Swing Gitane by The Underscore Orkestra: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Underscore_Orkestra/The_ExtraOrdinary_Adventures_of/06_Swing_Gitane
 
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In this episode, co-hosts Maciek Makulski and Adam Reichardt discuss the newest issue of New Eastern Europe which has the theme of 1918 and memory of the end of the First World War from the Eastern European perspective. The hosts also discuss other threads in the issue including some interesting pieces on social and economic developments in Russia as well as a discussion on Belarus in the eyes of its neighbours.
 
Resources:
New Eastern Europe issue 6/2018: http://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/11/05/issue-6-2018-1918-year-independence/
“The decline of the West and the joy in the East” - Interview with Andrzej Chwalba, Polish historian: http://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/11/05/decline-west-joy-east/
“1918 – A geopolitical catastrophe for Ukraine”. By Yaroslav Hrytsak: http://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/11/05/1918-geopolitical-catastrophe-ukraine/
“Is the blockchain revolution starting in Russia?” By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska: http://neweasterneurope.eu/2018/11/05/blockchain-revolution-starting-russia/

In the first episode of Talk Eastern Europe, co-hosts Adam Reichardt and Maciek Makulski open the podcast with a discussion on current issues in the Baltic states and how literature can give a view into a nation's identity. Adam Reichardt interviews Inga Žolude - a Latvian writer and winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011.
Resources:
Inga Žolude at Latvia Literature: http://www.latvianliterature.lv/en/writers/20
European Union Prize for Literature 2011: http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/author/2011/inga-zolude
New Eastern Europe: www.neweasterneurope.eu