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The war in Ukraine is not new. Ukrainians have been living through \\u201cthe long war\\u201d of a threatened \\u2013 and brutally real \\u2013 Russian invasion for decades. We hear from 60-year-old Irina Dovgan, who refused to leave her home, with its blooming garden and many pets, when separatist fighters took over her region in 2014. She became an international symbol of the invasion after Russian-backed forces arrested, abused and publicly humiliated her. Now, Dovgan is living through a second invasion.\\xa0\\xa0
\\n\\nReporting from Ukraine, Coda Story\\u2019s Glenn Kates explains what it\\u2019s been like to live in Kyiv as Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to invade. While many Ukrainians speak Russian and have deep ties to the country, Kates talks to Kyiv residents about how Putin\\u2019s threats of invasion and violence have shifted their sense of identity. As the invasion approaches, each person has to weigh the nearly impossible question of what they will do to survive.\\xa0\\xa0
\\n\\nTo understand what it\\u2019s like to be a journalist in Ukraine and Russia right now, host Ike Sriskandarajah speaks with propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev. Born in Ukraine and now a fellow at Johns Hopkins University and contributing editor at Coda Story, Pomerantsev describes how challenging Putin\\u2019s official version of events can land journalists in prison. Under a new law, even calling the invasion an \\u201cinvasion\\u201d could lead to a 15-year prison sentence.\\xa0
\\n\\nFinally, Reveal\\u2019s Elizabeth Shogren takes listeners back to a time when Russia was charting a different course. In 1989, Shogren was a Moscow-based reporter covering the Soviet Union\\u2019s first freely elected legislature. She talks with Russian reporter Sergey Parkhomenko about how, since Putin\\u2019s election in 2000, the Russian president has consolidated power by systematically squashing dissent inside the country. This month, Parkhomenko\\u2019s radio show and the whole independent Echo of Moscow network was taken off the air. The Kremlin\\u2019s harsh new censorship law, punishable by 15 years in prison, makes it illegal to call the war in Ukraine a \\u201cwar.\\u201d\\xa0
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