One year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, how has the war changed the daily lives of Ukraine's youngest generation?

Brazen reporter Susie Armitage highlights how the war is impacting Ukrainian children. In this episode, kids share audio and video diaries that offer a glimpse into their daily routine: lessons interrupted by air raid alerts, jokes about nuclear war, and volunteer work to support the Ukrainian army.

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This week on Brazen Presents, reporter Neha Wadekar interviews Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, leader of Me We International, an organisation that uses art to help refugees around the world heal from trauma, reframe their narratives, and author their futures.

To follow Me We International and learn more about their work, please visit www.meweintl.org. You can find them online at @meweinternational on Instagram and @meweintl on Twitter.

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Reporter Georgia Gee speaks with Peter Pomerantsev, a Kyiv-born expert in propaganda and disinformation. His books Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible and This is Not Propaganda outline how Russia and others have weaponized the perception of truth.

Today, Russia is waging two wars against Ukraine. One is on the ground. The other is being fought online, on the internet and television. Even before launching its full-scale invasion last February, the Kremlin spent years propagating narratives about Ukraine. For example: Putin pushed the idea that Ukrainians and Russians were really just one people. That Ukrainian wasn’t really a language. And that the country was just a puppet of the west, and didn’t deserve to be a sovereign state.

Russia uses these narratives to try to justify its violence in Ukraine — to its citizens and the rest of the world — and according to Pomerantsev, we need to find new ways to fight back.

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An exclusive preview of The Closer, a new podcast from Project Brazen that takes you inside the deals that changed the world. To hear the rest of this episode, search for The Closer wherever you listen to podcasts.

Landmark deals can change everything. They can transform how we live. They can alter the course of the economy. The Closer asks: Who made these deals, and why?

This is a preview of episode one, which goes behind the scenes of the 2013 merger between American Airlines and US Airways. The deal created the world’s largest airline, but it also marked the ascent of one of the American labor movement’s most visible faces.

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This is a preview of Project Brazen's latest investigative podcast, The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome. To listen to the rest of this episode, search for THE SOUND: Mystery of Havana Syndrome, wherever you get your podcasts.

In December 2016, a US official in Havana reported a debilitating and confounding  illness. The symptoms included headaches; nausea; hearing loss; problems with memory and vision. Soon, a second official came down with the same symptoms. Then a third. Then a fourth. By the time the story went public in summer 2017, dozens of US diplomats, as well as some Canadians, had come down with what was becoming known as “Havana Syndrome.”

In this deep dive investigation, journalist Nicky Woolf peels back the layers of one of the most bizarre mysteries of the modern age. THE SOUND is a story about spycraft, technology, and the brain, and how the Cold War, maybe, never really ended.

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Journalist Nicky Woolf speaks with Project Brazen co-founder Tom Wright about his upcoming investigative podcast, THE SOUND: Mystery of Havana Syndrome.

Nicky shares his experience following the unexplained phenomenon from Havana to Washington DC, Miami, London, and beyond. He talks about meeting victims of the devastating illness, efforts to understand the science that could have caused it — even building his own device — and how new cases of the syndrome continue to appear to this day.

Make sure you don’t miss an episode by subscribing to THE SOUND: Mystery of Havana Syndrome, wherever you listen to podcasts. If you want an unrivalled glimpse into the shadowy worlds of espionage, novel technologies and global conspiracies, this is a story for you.

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This week on Brazen Presents, we’re excited to share a bonus episode from our latest show, Corinna and The King. The podcast tells the story of the explosive love affair between King Juan Carlos I of Spain and businesswoman Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, and the fraud, espionage, and mysterious €65 million gift that came with it.

The series was produced by Project Brazen in two languages, hosted by actors Mishel Prada (“Vida,” “Riverdale”) in English, and Laura Gómez (“Orange is the New Black”) in Spanish. In this bonus episode, we get an exclusive listen to our two narrators in conversation, discussing what it was like to tell this unbelievable true story of corruption, conspiracy and love gone wrong at the heart of the Spanish royal family.

Thanks for listening. If you’d like to listen to the series in full, you can find Corinna and The King and the Spanish-language version, Corinna y El Rey, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Make sure to subscribe and for more information visit www.corinnaandtheking.com

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The saga of Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX, is unfolding every day like a TV drama. After his crypto company imploded in November, the 30-year-old was arrested in the Bahamas on charges of wire fraud and money laundering, and could face up to 115 years in prison.

SBF, as he’s often called, was denied bail and is now awaiting extradition in Fox Hill, the only prison on the Bahamas. It’s a short drive from his $30 million penthouse on the island, but a long way from the life of luxury he once enjoyed.

Back at the end of November, as SBF’s empire fell apart, Brazen reporter Georgia Gee got a rare glimpse inside Albany, the upscale resort where he and FTX were based. In this Brazen Presents dispatch, Georgia shares what she found there — and how locals are reacting to the scandal.

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This week on Brazen Presents, Project Brazen co-founders Bradley Hope and Tom Wright share the first audio instalment of ‘Where Is Jho Low’, the live investigation to track down the Malaysian fugitive at the heart of the 1MDB scandal. In this episode, they recap on Jho Low’s crimes and his time on the run, as well as sharing new evidence indicating he may still be doing business out of Taiwan.

If you’re interested in the hidden worlds of wealth and power, this is a story for you. Not only is $8bn in stolen funds still missing, but Jho Low remains at large – even as former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak faces 12 years behind bars.

This investigation began its life as a YouTube series, and we will continue to post new video episodes. So, if you’d like to watch as well as listen, check out the Where Is Jho Low series on Project Brazen’s YouTube channel.

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A Ukrainian refugee shares the story of his fraught escape from Russian-occupied Kherson.

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A strategically important port in the south of Ukraine near the Black Sea, Kherson was the first major city to fall into Russian hands in the early days of the war. But last week, after more than eight months of occupation, Russia withdrew its forces and Ukrainian soldiers entered the city, greeted by cheering locals. It’s a triumphant moment for Ukraine, but along with the celebrations, there’s a long road ahead to restoring normalcy.

Around 300,000 people lived there before the invasion, but Ukrainian authorities estimate that more than half have now fled. As they share their stories, we’re beginning to get a fuller picture of what life looks like for the Ukrainians trapped behind Russian lines.

In this interview, Alex, a Ukrainian refugee, speaks with producers Susie Armitage and Alex Gendler about his experience under occupation, and what it took to escape.

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