The Eurasian Knot

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January 11, 2019 Youth Movements in Eastern Europe
Guest: Olena Nikolayenko on Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.
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59 min
January 11, 2019 Youth Movements in Eastern Europe

Guest:

Olena Nikolayenko is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University. Her research interests include comparative democratization, social movements, political behavior, women’s activism, and youth, with a regional focus on Eastern Europe. She’s the author of Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe published by Cambridge University Press.

Music:

King Curtis, “Memphis Soul Stew,” Soul: The Collection, 2017.
59 min
December 14, 2018 American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Guest: Alexey Kovalev on American and Russian journalism.
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57 min
December 14, 2018 American Newsrooms through Russian Eyes
Guest:
Alexey Kovalev is a Russian journalist currently working as the managing editor of Codaru.com, an independent investigative reporting outlet. He’s also the founder of Noodleremover, a website devoted to exposing Russian media propaganda. You can follow him on Twitter at @Alexey__Kovalev.
Listen to my previous interview with Alexey on Russian propaganda.
Music:
Lead into Gold, “Faster than Light,” Chicks & Speed: Futurism, 1990.

57 min
December 07, 2018 Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests: Eurasianet's Peter Leonard and Josh Kucera on Central Asia and the South Caucausus
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1 hr 23 min
December 07, 2018 Eurasianet on Eurasia
Guests:
Peter Leonard has served as Eurasianet’s Central Asia editor since 2015. Prior to that he worked as Ukraine bureau chief for the Associated Press (AP) news agency. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as Central Asia correspondent for the AP.
Josh Kucera is Eurasianet’s Turkey &Caucasus Editor. He has also has written about the Caucasus and Central Asia for Slate, The New York Times, Al Jazeera America, The Atlantic, and other publications. He is a former staff reporter for Jane’s Defense Weekly and the Associated Press.
Music:
Skinny Puppy, “Warlock,” Rabies, 1989.
1 hr 23 min
November 19, 2018 Red Children’s Republics
Guest:
Diana Georgescu is a Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative Southeast European Studies in the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Her research focuses on the history of childhood and youth in the socialist and post-socialist periods. She’s currently finishing a book titled Ceaușescu’s Children: The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation, 1965-2010.
Music:
The Cure, “Bananafishbones,” The Top, 1984
43 min
November 19, 2018 Red Children’s Republics

Guest:
Diana Georgescu is a Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative Southeast European Studies in the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Her research focuses on the history of childhood and youth in the socialist and post-socialist periods. She’s currently finishing a book titled Ceaușescu’s Children: The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist Generation, 1965-2010.
Music:
The Cure, “Bananafishbones,” The Top, 1984
43 min
November 12, 2018 Smoking Under the Tsars
Guest:
Tricia Starks is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas where she teaches and researches the intersection of culture and public health in the Russian and Soviet context. She’s the author of The Body Soviet: Hygiene, Propaganda, and the Revolutionary State published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2008. Her new book is Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia published by Cornell University Press.
Music:
Dramarama, “Last Cigarette,” Stuck in Wonderamaland, 1989.
1 hr 7 min
November 05, 2018 Soviet and American Children in the Cold War
Guest: Margaret Peacock on Soviet and American Children in the Cold War.
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1 hr 2 min

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To many, Russia, and the wider Eurasia, is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But it doesn’t have to be. The Eurasian Knot dispels the stereotypes and myths about the region with lively…