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By Joe Lindsley, editor, Lviv Now (story reposted from LvivNow.com)

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Perspectives on Ukraine from people who know the country

guest: Andrew Fink

host: Joe Lindsley

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Joe Lindsley, American journalist traveling by train across Ukraine to a city near the Western border, speaks with Andrew Fink, PhD, who lived many years in Kyiv and who has long studied Russian propaganda and Putin's motives and tactics. Fink speaks from Talinn, Estonia.

They discuss:

—Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution and why Putin fears it

—What Putin might do, what he can do

—Discuss Putin's plans to federalize Ukraine

—Fink dispels propaganda that Euromaidan was created by American agents

Joe Lindsley, an American journalist (follow on Instagram or LinkedIn), is editor of Lviv Now.


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Lviv Now is an English-language website for Lviv, Ukraine’s «tech-friendly cultural hub.» It is produced by Tvoe Misto («Your City») media-hub, which also hosts regular problem-solving public forums to benefit the city and its people.

Andrew Fink lived in Kyiv for six years while working on his PhD dissertation at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He was studying the craft of propaganda and the history of conspiracy theories with a special focus on Russia. An alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, he's been a consultant in interesting regions of the world, he earned his master's at SOAS University of London in near and middle eastern studies, speaks Farsi and Russian, and has long studied Vladimir Putin's tactics and motives.

Joe Lindsley, an American journalist, was protégé to Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, from whose empire he escaped in a Hudson Valley car chase. Now, after traveling the world, he's been living in a pandemic exile in the western city of Lviv, Ukraine. And as tensions with Russia and Ukraine, and Russia and the world seem to escalate he has traveled to the far eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 20 miles or so to Russia.