War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv

138. ANALYSIS: Miriam Hess on Ramzan Kadyrov’s place in Russian politics; Chechen fighters on both sides in the war in Ukraine; and the future of the Republic of Chechnya

Miriam Hess, Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations,
discusses Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's place in the domestic Russian political landscape and relationship to Putin, Chechens fighting on both sides in the war in Ukraine, and the possible future of the Republic of Chechnya if Putin were to no longer be in power.
More about Miriam's work: Miriam Hess
Miriam Hess on: background to the relationship between Chechnya and Russia for The Hundred 
Miriam Hess on Ramzan Kadyrov: The Controversial Chechen Leader who Supports Putin in Ukraine 
Miriam Hess on: how Ramzan Kadyrov leverages Islam and internal conflict 
Miriam Hess on X(Twitter): @miriamka_hess
More about the host: Jessica Genauer
Jessica on X(twitter): @jessicagenauer 

137. ANALYSIS: Mark McNamee on Ukraine’s economic opportunities and challenges

Mark McNamee, Europe Director at Frontier View, discusses the economic opportunities and challenges in Ukraine, the mood in Kyiv, the on-going counteroffensive, and political and economic pressures in Russia. 
Mark McNamee in Frontier View Insights on Implications of Russia's withdrawal from the grain deal, August 2023 
Mark McNamee in Frontier View Insights on How Prigozhin's mutiny reveals Putin's weakness, June 2023 
Mark McNamee in Frontier View Insights on How the war has damaged Russian labor markets, June 2023 
Mark McNamee on X/Twitter: @mmcnameefsg
More about Fontier View: frontierview.com
More about the host: Jessica Genauer 
Jessica on X/Twitter: @jessicagenauer

136. ANALYSIS: Catrina Doxsee on Wagner mutiny, Prigozhin’s relationship to Putin, and the future of the Wagner group

Catrina Doxsee, associate director and associate fellow for the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), discusses the Wagner mutiny, Wagner's relationship to the Russian state, the relationship between Yevgeny Prigozhin and Putin, and the future of Wagner activities in Africa and elsewhere. 
More about Catrina Doxsee's work: CatrinaDoxsee.com
Previous episode with Catrina on background and activities of the Wagner group: Episode 124. ANALYSIS: Catrina Doxsee on the Wagner group
Catrina on twitter / X: @catrinadoxsee
Jessica Genauer on twitter / X: @jessicagenauer
More about the host: Jessica Genauer 

135. ANALYSIS: James Acuna on intelligence drones, open source intelligence, the information domain and the war in Ukraine

James Acuna, founder of Frontier Vectors security and business consultancy and former CIA officer, discusses the use of intelligence drones in Ukraine, the way in which open source intelligence has impacted the war, and the information domain.   
More on James Acuna: Founder of Frontier Vectors security and business consultancy based in Tallinn, Estonia. Prior to this James worked for over 27 years in both defense and security in the United States including 20 years with the Directorate of Operations at the CIA and 8 years supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
More on Frontier Vectors
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Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer

134. ANALYSIS: Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria on forced deportations of Ukrainian children, allegations of genocide, and implications of the ICC arrest warrant for President Putin

Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria, PhD candidate at the T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, discusses the forced deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia, atroctiy crimes, allegations of genocide and the implications of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for President Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova. 
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria on Are Russian transfers of Ukrainian children to re-education and adoption facilities a form of genocide?
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria on twitter @YBFLaw
Jessica Genauer on twitter @jessicagenauer
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133. ANALYSIS: Edward Price evaluates on-going risks, Ukraine’s financial strategy, and global economic implications of the war in Ukraine

Edward Price, former British Trade Official, Principal for Geopolitical Forecasting at Ergo Intelligence and non-resident Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, discusses Ukraine's financial strategy, on-going risks and global economic implications of the war in Ukraine. 
More about Edward Price 
Edward Price on The Man Financing Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 
Edward Price on Global Implications of the war in Ukraine
Edward Price on twitter: @ed_s_price
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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132. ANALYSIS: Alexander Titov on Russian imperialism, and mechanisms of territorial appropriation, in light of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Alexander Titov, Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen's University Belfast, discusses imperialism in the Northeast Asian region, Russian imperialism, common mechanisms of appropriation of former imperial territories, and possible echoes of patterns of imperial territorial conquest in Russia's current full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 
Alexander Titov on Ukraine: Putin isn't mad - he's following a long-established great power playbook for conquest
Alexander Titov on National appropriation of imperial lands in Northeast Asia in forthcoming edited volume Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia 
Alexander Titov on twitter: @titovalexander
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
More about the host: Jessica Genauer 

131. UPDATE: Maksym Yali on expected Ukrainian counteroffensive - when, where and what’s at stake

Maksym Yali, Head of a Center for New World Order and Professor of International Relations at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, comments on when we are likely to see the Ukrainian counteroffensive commence, what's at stake and where it might take place.  
Maksym Yali on twitter: @maksymyali 
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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130. ANALYSIS: Daria Isachenko on Turkey-Russia relations, Nagorno-Karabach, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and trajectory of relations in 2023

Daria Isachenko, Associate at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), discusses Turkey's relations with Russia in light of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Turkey-Russia relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, war in Ukraine, Presidential elections in Turkey this year, and how relations might change this year.  
More about Daria Isachenko's work
Daria Isachenko on Turkey's Stakes in the Russia-NATO Rivalry
Daria Isachenko on Turkey-Russia Partnership in the War over Nagorno-Karabakh 
Daria Isachenko on Turkey and Russia: The Logic of Conflictual Cooperation
More about the host: Jessica Genauer 

129. ANALYSIS: Oleksa Drachewych on echoes of history in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - implications of Bolshevik revolution; use of WWII narratives & brutal historical echoes in Russia’s invasion

Oleksa Drachewych, Assistant Professor in History at Western University, discusses the echoes of history in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: implications of the Bolshevik revolution and its aftermath, the use of narrative and symbols from World War II, and the brutal echoes of history in the way in which Russia has been carrying out the current invasion of Ukraine. 
The current Russian regime "by conflating the Soviet experience [in World War II] to being Russian - they are essentially removing the Ukrainian experience from the broader narrative." 
"The Russian rhetoric that tends to dehumanise Ukrainians very much mimics a lot of the way that the Soviet Union aimed to dehumanise the Germans, Romanians and others... during the Second World War... and that... dehumanisation then turned into violence and anger against civilians".
Oleksa Drachewych on Calls for peace in Ukraine a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion are unrealistic
Oleksa Drachewych on How Russia’s fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion
Oleksa Drachewych on Putin's War on Ukraine and on History 
Oleksa Drachewych on twitter:  @ODrachewych
Jessica Genauer on twitter: @jessicagenauer
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