This week the Kyiv Post podcast covers what the Biden administration means for Ukraine’s future. We are joined by Illia Ponomarenko the Kyiv Post defense reporter and Oleksiy Sorokin, our political staff writer.

Are things looking good for Ukraine now that Biden is president? Or will relationships continue to strain as Ukraine deals with more unresolved corruption and scandal?

Full transcript of the podcast is on our website kyivpost.com

This week Kyiv Post podcast host Elina Kent sits down with photographer, architecture and monumental art researcher Dmytro Solovyov (@ukrainianmodernism) to discuss Kyiv's famous and extraordinary Soviet Modernist structures.

The buildings and locations attract foreigners from all over the world. But the post soviet country and its people want to break away from Soviet memories. The slow erasure of these historical structures has recently been met with resistance some resistance. Soviet Modernism might be architecture worth saving.

Full transcript of the podcast is on our website kyivpost.com

For the first podcast of 2021 we are covering the recent development of the infamous murder of Pavel Sheremet. The new player in suspect? You may recognize him as we’ve covered the protests currently going on in his country on our podcast previously, Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko.

Produced and hosted by Elina Kent.

Kyiv Post journalists Elina Kent and Alexander Query take you through the major news events that Kyiv Post covered during 2020.

From the Iran plane crash in Tehran,

Ukraine's ecological crisis,

President Zelensky's government "do over",

Coronavirus in Ukraine,

The Belarusian election and protests,

and the still ongoing Courtpocalypse.

It’s one of independent Ukraine’s dominant paradigms: being pulled between more powerful forces.

For a quarter-century, Kyiv swung between Russia and the West. In 2019, U. S. President Donald Trump tried to use it as a political bludgeon against his Democratic competitor, former Vice President Joseph Biden.

Now, Ukraine finds itself at the center of a battle for Motor Sich, a strategic aircraft engine manufacturer. A Chinese company wants to buy it. The United States opposes that sale.

Hosted by Elina Kent. Joined this week by Igor Kossov.

Ukraine will go into a nationwide lockdown starting on Jan. 8 until Jan. 24 to curb the spread of COVID-19.

What is today's current situation of the pandemic? What can we expect with the upcoming winter lockdown? When can we expect a vaccine?

These questions are answered and discussed with Kyiv Post journalists Matt Kupfer and Bermet Talant. Hosted by Elina Kent.

2020 has been rough year on all of us in one way or another. Ukraine already has a history of poor support or even acknowledgment of mental health issues. An issue that heavily affects everyone as the country continues to deal with a slow burn war and corrupt courts.

Lifeline Ukraine focuses on helping Ukrainian veterans, and anyone who is feeling suicidal. Their phone number is 7333 free in all of Ukraine.

Ukraine on the Brink - a 10 part documentary series on Ukraine's ecological crises and solutions is out now.

We are joined by the head of the project Austin Malloy who takes us through the major discoveries of the series. Hosted by Elina Kent

It has been 8 months since the first coronavirus case was confirmed in Ukraine on March 3rd. Since then we have sat through a nationwide quarantine, initially for three weeks, that was prolonged several times, several adaptive measures, and changing policies.

This podcast covers the most recent coronavirus numbers, measures taken and Health Minister Stepanov’s approach. Joined by Bermet Talant and Matt Kupfer. Hosted by Elina Kent.

Two corrupt courts working in tandem -- the Constitutional Court and Kyiv City Administrative Court ruled by Judge Pavlo Vovk -- have delivered serious blows to Ukraine's anti-corruption drive.

Joined by Oleksiy Sorokin, hosted by Elina Kent.