Podcast by Michael Buryk
Kurt Volker was the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine negotiations from 2017 to 2019 with the first Trump Administration and U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2008-2009. He continues to be an insightful foreign affairs analyst and advisor. In this interview, Mr. Volker assesses Ukraine's current situation in the Russian invasion. He states that Ukraine is stronger militarily than it was when the invasion began in February 2022 and has many more allies in the EU and elsewhere. And he points out that even though relations with the U.S. are more complicated now, the EU fully supports Ukraine and can provide the much-needed military assistance for the country to defend itself against Russian aggression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Volker https://bgrdc.com/team/ambassador-kurt-volker/
Dina Smeltz is vice president and senior fellow public opinion with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The Council was established in 1922, as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization for the purpose of increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs. Its mission is to promote general public interest in the foreign policy of the United States. To this end, the organization conducts online events with expert speakers who lecture on world events. It also regularly conducts polls to gauge public opinion on foreign policy topics. Since February 2022 when the Russian invasion against Ukraine began, the Council has polled Americans about their views on Ukraine and the war. You can find results from their latest Ukraine public opinion poll here: https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/slim-majorities-americans-still-support-aiding-ukraine . In this interview, Ms. Smeltz reviews the history of the Council and talks about why the Ukraine poll is so important for their public engagement work. https://globalaffairs.org/
Orest Deychakiwsky is a well known activist in the Ukrainian American community. He worked at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), an independent US government agency, from November 1981 to May 2017. While at the Commission, Orest served as a member of official US delegations to numerous conferences and meetings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and its predecessor, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Currently, he is a Senior Advisor at the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, Co-chairman of the Transatlantic Task Force on Ukraine, and Board Member of The Washington Group and the Shevchenko Scientific Society, USA (NTShA). In this interview Mr. Deychakiwsky reviews the relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine during the Russian invasion against Ukraine and considers whether a cease-fire and long-term peace is possible. For a complete bio go here. https://harriman.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Orest-Deychakiwsky.pdf Some of his recent articles appear here. https://vilni-media.com/en/category/authors/orest-deychakiwsky/
Natalia Bariatska is a doctor of geology in Ukraine and the founder and CEO of the Ukrainian company Softmine LLC. In this interview, she talks about the significance of Ukraine's key critical minerals for the global economy and the United States in particular. Ms. Bariatska also reviews the potential for their development for intenational trade. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliia-bariatska-78b2011a3/ https://softmine.com.ua/
Stefan Korshak is the senior defense correspondent for the Kyiv Post English-language newspaper. He offers his insights into how the Ukrainian army has been able to effectively counter the attacks of the Russian army with its substantially larger manpower and more military equipment. He says the current ceasefire proposed by the United States is untenable. Mr. Korshak also comments on the morale of the Ukrainian army and whether China has entered the war on Russia's side. https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/11 https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-korshak-54821661/
There are about 250,000 Ukrainian parolees who have entered the United States as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the context of U.S. immigration law, an immigration parolee is an individual granted temporary permission to enter or remain in the United States but without establishing a path to permanent residency. Iryna Mazur, a U.S. immigration attorney and Honorary Consul of Ukraine to Philadelphia, discusses their current status under the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) federal programs. On January 27, 2025, the Trump administration placed all parole programs on hold, and also, Ukraine was never redesignated for another TPS period. It is expected that the Administration will make a final decision with regards to the future of the U4U program and relevant re-parole authorizations by the end of April 2025. https://fimlaw.com/meet-our-lawyers/ https://www.consularcorpsofphiladelphia.org/ukraine/
Bohdan Nahaylo is the Chief Editor at the Kyiv Post in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a British-Ukrainian journalist and well-known writer whose career as a Ukraine-watcher spans more than four decades. Reflecting on the mood in Kyiv, Mr. Nahaylo does not believe Ukraine is ready for elections. He is extremely critical of the proposed U.S.-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal proposed by the Trump administration. He does not think Russian President Vladimir will accept the proposed 30-day ceasefire in the war. In this interview, Mr. Nahaylo also reviews his three years as Chief Editor at the Kyiv Post and the major challenges.https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bohdan-nahaylo-716a935b/?originalSubdomain=ua
Alexander Vindman, a Ukrainian American who was born in Kyiv, is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former director for European affairs with the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). As a foreign area officer specializing in Eurasia, he served in the U.S. embassies in Kyiv and Moscow. Mr. Vindman received a Master of Arts degree in Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian studies from Harvard University. He also has a doctoral degree in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University. In this interview, Mr. Vindman discusses why the Trump Administration is putting pressure on President Zelenskyy to accept its framework for an initial 30-day ceasefire and an eventual peace agreement with Russia. He also reviews overall relations between the U.S. and Ukraine. He is the author of a new book "The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman
Larisa Didkovska is the Rector of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) located in Munich, Germany. The university was originally established in Vienna, Austria, in 1921. This private graduate academic institution offers many students from Ukraine, Europe and elsewhere programs of study in the social sciences and the humanities primarily in the Ukrainian language. Noteworthy alumni of UFU include Volodymyr Kubiyovych (1900–1985), who was a famous Ukrainian geographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, politician, and statesman, and Leonid Rudnytzky (1935-2024), who was a Ukrainian-born American linguist and professor of German, Slavic and Ukrainian studies who taught at the University of Pennsylvania. https://ufu-muenchen.de/uk/
Christian Borys is a Ukrainian Canadian journalist who covered the Russian war against Ukraine for a while. When he returned to Canada, he decided to create a fund-raising site for the Ukrainian army. Eventually this effort evolved into a social enterprise based in Ukraine that produces various consumer products. He hopes to continue this venture even after the war ends. https://www.saintjavelin.com/pages/saint-javelin-day-2025-metal
Kira Rudik is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and the leader of the Golos Party. Before her first election to parliament in 2019, she was a key player in Ukraine's technology industry as the CEO of Ring Ukraine. In this interview, Ms. Rudik assesses the current social and political mood in Ukraine and emphasizes how the country continues to fight for its freedom and sovereignty despite the Russian invasion. One of her key goals is to use the roughly $300 billion of frozen Russian assets to help support and rebuild Ukraine. https://www.kirarudik.com/
The third anniversary of the Russian invasion against Ukraine will occur in February 2025. Are Ukraine and Russia ready to begin peace negotiations? Will the U.S. continue to play a major role as an ally of Ukraine, or will the incoming administration of President Donald Trump change course? Taras Kuzio, professor of political science at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, offers his views on Ukraine and its current situation with the Russian invasion. https://isad.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/taras-kuzio
Beginning in the 1940's, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a key venue in the USSR for the development of cybernetics and information technology (IT). When Ukraine became independent in 1991, a new wave of creativity was unleashed in the field of technology leading to the development of innovative IT companies that sought to play a crucial role in the global economy. Serhii Kryvoblotskyi, Head of Technological R&D at the Ukrainian company MacPaw Inc., discusses this engaging book written by Volodymyr Nezorov and published by MacPaw. https://www.innovation-in-isolation.com/
Tony Leliw is a London-based, freelance British Ukrainian journalist, playwright and filmmaker. His writing career spans some 30 years and he currently is a freelancer for The Kyiv Post. His new short film, "Ukraine's Gold", is based on the legend of Hetman Pavlo Polubotok. It has been warmly received in the UK and abroad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKlXXtcfU8 https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/45
There has been significant destruction of Ukraine's national heritage sites and cultural institutions since the Russian invasion began in February 2022. Kateryna Goncharova has been involved with the preservation of architectural heritage and historical sites in Ukraine, including research, management, and scientific support of projects. She is currently Country Director for Ukraine with the World Monuments Fund. Ms. Goncharova discusses damage done to national heritage sites and cultural institutions during the war and efforts to restore them. https://www.wmf.org/kateryna-goncharova-phd https://www.wmf.org/
Journalist Svitlana Oslavska and her photographer sister Anna Ilchenko started the Old Khata Project in 2020 intending to create a photobook about rural houses in Ukraine. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine slowed down the project, but the duo finally published their book in 2023. They were born in the city of Sieverodonetsk which is currently occupied by Russia. Ms. Oslavska and Ms. Ilchenko talk about why this project is so important for better understanding rural architecture and folk art in Ukraine as well as the people they interviewed in their travels from the regions of Zakarpattia to Luhansk and from Chernihiv to Kherson. Their book artfully reveals traces of traditional culture in modern everyday life. https://www.oldkhataproject.com/en/
Miriam Guttman is an award-winning Dutch filmmaker and photographer. She directed the new documentary "Front Row". The American actress and television producer Sarah Jessica Parker is the executive producer. The film tells the story of the United Ukrainian Ballet Company founded in the Hague in the Netherlands with a group of 60 Ukrainian war refugees in 2022 by the famous Dutch ballerina Igone de Jongh. An essential part of the film is the brotherly relationship that develops between ballet dancer Oleksiy Tiutiunnyk and 26-year-old Ukrainian wounded veteran Oleksandr Budko. Oleksandr meets the ballet company at a performance in Washington, D.C., and aspires to perform with them even though he is a double amputee. He eventually does in Los Angeles in July 2023. This inspiring documentary makes its world premiere in New York City on Saturday, November 16, 2024, at 6:15PM at the Village East theater by Angelika. https://www.miriamguttmann.com/ https://marinaharss.substack.com/p/the-battlefield-within https://svidomi.in.ua/en/page/i-am-an-example-of-the-consequences-of-war-the-story-of-veteran-oleksandr-teren-budko
Peter Solowka and Len Liggins founded The Ukrainians British Punk Rock band in England in 1990. Since then they have entertained audiences throughout Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe with traditional Ukrainian folk songs, covers of classic British and American rock songs and their own compositions. The duo recently published a new book about the band, "The Ukrainians: From Kyiv to the Kosmos". This interview includes their discussion on the history of the band and also offers their thoughts about the new book. https://www.the-ukrainians.com/
Ukrainian American Yuri Yanchyshyn has been a period furniture and wooden artifacts conservator for more than 30 years. He has worked for many important cultural institutions worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2016 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for conservation work in Ukraine. One of Mr. Yanchyshyn's major projects has been the preservation of wooden churches ("tserkvas"). In this effort he has collaborated with Mykola Bevz, the chair of the Department of Restoration and Reconstruction of Architectural Complexes at Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Architecture and Conservation. He discusses his work and career in this interview. https://www.periodfurnitureconservation.com/ https://www.redarchresearch.org/projects/ukraine-aid-project/
Ukraine faces significant electrical shortages this winter due to the constant attacks by Russia on its power grid. Oleksandr Kharchenko, an energy industry expert and managing director of the Energy Industry Research Center in Kyiv, Ukraine, discusses what has happened to Ukraine's energy infrastructure during the Russian invasion and ongoing efforts to repair it. Mr. Kharchenko also talks about what should be done long-term to redevelop and revitalize Ukraine's energy ecosystem to make it self-sufficient and sustainable. https://www.linkedin.com/in/okharchenko/ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/ukraines-winter-energy-crisis-facing-threat-missiles-and-default
Fedir Serdiuk is a young Ukrainian entrepreneur who is active in the field of emergency medical care in Ukraine. In 2016, he and Igor Korpusov founded a first aid training organization FAST (First Aid and SpecialTraining). FAST has more than 200 local and international companies among its clients. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Serdiuk, Mr. Korpusov and a colleague Leonid Kopus established the non-profit PULSE to support the development of emergency and combat medicine in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fedir Serdiuk talks about these activities and the impact of the Russian invasion on emergency medical care in Ukraine. https://actfast.pro/en/my.html https://www.pulse.charity/en
Andrew Wilson is a British author, Professor in Ukrainian Studies at University College London and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In this interview, he talks about politics in Ukraine during the period of the Russian invasion. He also explores what impact IDP's and returning war refugees might have on the country's direction. Here is a list of his publications. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/7084-andrew-wilson/publications. And, this is his ECFR profile. https://ecfr.eu/profile/andrew_wilson/
Andrew D'Anieri is a resident fellow and former assistant director with the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. He discusses the recent trip to Kyiv of U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham. They made a proposal for a new U.S.-Ukraine economic partnership in the development of strategic metals and rare earth elements. Senator Blumenthal's upcoming fall introduction of the Stand with Ukraine Act in Congress is also reviewed. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/andrew-danieri/
Andreas Umland is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His focus as a political scientist has been contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history, domestic politics and foreign affairs. In this interview, Mr. Umland provides his views on the ongoing Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region of Russia and talks about the possible impact on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the presidency of Vladimir Putin. https://www.ui.se/english/about/staff/andreas-umland/
Brian Bonner has been a prominent figure in Ukraine's media scene for almost three decades. He became chief editor of the Kyiv Post in 2008 and assumed the additional responsibilities of executive director from 2018 until 2021. Today Mr. Bonner is involved with a number of Ukraine-oriented projects including The Cipher Brief and the Hromadske Radio podcast, "Ukraine Calling". In this interview, he reflects on the changes he has seen in Ukraine since the 1990's and the current situation during the Russian invasion. https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/briansbonner
Lina Ngo was born in Kyiv to Vietnamese emigres. Once the Russian invasion began in 2022, she and her family left Ukraine and eventually settled in Seattle, Wash. where she has family. Lina is now a college student there and an activist supporting the Ukrainian army through the NGO Ukraine Defense Support. She talks about her experiences and her desire to return to Ukraine when the war ends. https://www.facebook.com/bao.linh.94402
More than 30% of Ukraine's territory has been mined during the Russia invasion. Kosta Schneider, Chief Creative Director at Publicis Groupe Ukraine and the Czech Republic, is the spokesperson for an important effort to raise global awareness of the critical need for demining in Ukraine. The Minefields Honey Project is a collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the agricultural company Kernal, the company Dronarium and the Publicis Group, a global advertising and public relations company. https://minefieldshoney.onepage.me/
The Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland was first established in 1952 by displaced scholars who took on the mission of collecting and preserving items from Ukrainian history and culture. Dr. Taras Mahlay, on the Board of Directors and President of UMA, and Andriy Fedynsky, Director of UMA, discuss the museum, its valuable work and collections. An important part of its mission is collaboration with other museums, education and cultural institutions worldwide. https://www.umacleveland.org/
Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is an expert on modern Ukrainian and Russian cultural history, including the avant-garde, Soviet literary politics, nationalism, imperialism and contemporary debates around decolonization. In this interview, he covers the clash between the Russian imperial and Ukrainian liberation narratives. He also offers his insights on the Russian war against Ukraine. https://umanitoba.ca/arts/myroslav-shkandrij
David Junk focused for many years on the music scene in Eastern Europe and in particular on Ukraine. He was a Vice President for PolyGram N.V., a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands and subsequently for the Universal Music Publishing Group which acquired PolyGram. After leaving the company and seeing the ravages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he decided to launch the "Art During Wartime" podcast to promote modern Ukrainian culture around the world. In this interview Mr. Junk talks about the podcast and his plans for the future. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art-during-wartime/id1716447606 https://odessa-journal.com/public/an-american-producer-has-launched-a-podcast-about-ukrainian-culture-during-the-war
Marta Barandiy is a Ukrainian-born activist, lawyer and founder of the organization Promote Ukraine in Brussels, Belgium. She has spent almost 20 years advocating for Ukraine in the EU. Ms. Barandiy is now running for EU parliamentary elections with the new political movement of Belgium Voor U. https://martavooreuropa.eu/
Larissa Babij is a Ukrainian American from Connecticut who has lived in Ukraine for almost 20 years. She is a writer, dancer and translator and now an author of the book, "A Kind of Refugee". The book tells the story of her personal experiences living in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. https://akindofrefugee2022.substack.com/
Myroslava Gongadze is the Eastern Europe Chief for the Voice of America. She is a prominent and seasoned Ukrainian journalist currently based in Warsaw, Poland. In this interview, Ms. Gongadze discusses the critical need for U.S. aid for Ukraine, Ukraine's air defenses and its major gains in the Black Sea, the Polish blockade of Ukraine's grain exports and the major challenges faced on a daily basis covering the war. https://www.voanews.com/author/myroslava-gongadze/rubmv
Ukrainian American Tamara Syby-Holovak is the Razom project lead for the Ukraine response initiative and welcome center in the New York City area. She is also the refugee coordinator for Ukrainian Jersey City and the Vice President with Soyuz Ukrainok Branch #143. Tamara's Ukrainian family roots in Jersey City go back more than 100 years. Ms. Syby-Holovak discusses her efforts to help Ukrainian refugees from the Russian invasion of Ukraine get settled in the New York area. https://www.razomforukraine.org/ https://www.ukrainianjc.com https://www.unwla.org
Anders Aslund is a Swedish economist, former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a preeminent specialist on East European economies. He has been closely involved with Ukraine and its economy since the 1980's. He is a prolific author and his book, "How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy (2009)", is a comprehensive account of how Ukraine successfully made the transition to a market economy. In this interview, Mr. Aslund discusses the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and what the EU and the West must do to ensure Ukraine's security and independence. https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/28064
Yuliya Ziskina is a policy and advocacy attorney specializing in information policy and public international law. She is also a Senior Legal Fellow for the Ukraine advocacy group Razom. Ms. Ziskina reviews the options for using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction. https://newlinesinstitute.org/people/yuliya-m-ziskina/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliya-ziskina/
The Ukrainian American restaurant Veselka made its debut in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1954. Veselka, which means rainbow in Ukrainian, was founded by Volodymyr and Olha Darmochwal in 1954. Their son-in-law Tom Birchard later took over management and operated the restaurant for many years. Eventually he passed the torch to his son Jason during the early days of the COVID pandemic. Michael Fiore, a documentary filmmaker, is now releasing his inspiring movie about this father-and-son team who have helped make Veselka an icon in the local Lower East Side community and beyond. You can find out more about the movie and its rollout schedule here. https://veselka.com/pages/veselka-the-movie And, more about Veselka here. https://veselka.com/
Peter Dickinson is the editor of the UkraineAlert blog at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and the publisher of Business Ukraine and Lviv Today magazines. He is a well known British journalist and media manager in Kyiv and has been focused on Ukraine since the 1990's. Mr. Dickinson discusses Ukraine as it grapples with the Russian invasion now entering its third year. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/peter-dickinson/
Ukrainian Master Chef Yevhen Klopotenko has become an innovative cultural ambassador for Ukrainian cuisine. Mr. Klopotenko applied to UNESCO to obtain international recognition for borshch. As a result of his efforts, in July 2022 UNESCO inscribed the Culture of Ukrainian borshch on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in need of urgent safeguarding. He talks about his career and culinary efforts which include a Ukrainian cookbook, a restaurant in Kyiv and the upcoming launch of Ukrainian cafes in New York and Washington, D.C. https://klopotenko.com/en/
Kurt Volker is an American diplomat with more than 35 years experience in government, academia and the private sector. He is a well known expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy. He was the US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017-2019 and the US Ambassador to NATO in 2008-2009. Ambassador Volker discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what the country's prospects are for winning the war. https://ldns.asu.edu/about/ambassador-kurt-volker https://bgrdc.com/team-member-post/ambassador-kurt-volker/
Stefan Korshak is the senior defense correspondent for the Kyiv Post newspaper published in English in Kyiv, Ukraine. He talks about his experiences during the early days of the war, the ongoing conflict and the technology Ukraine is using to secure a strategic advantage during the war. https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/11
Lucia Bondar is a Ukrainian publisher and author. Her coffee table books focus on architecture and design in Ukraine. Ms. Bondar's latest book, "Ukraine Rising: Contemporary Creative Culture from Ukraine" is a collaboration with the independent German book publisher Gestalten based in Berlin. This book presents the work of the Ukrainian creative community and highlights their innovation and intrepid spirit. https://cp-publishing.com.ua/en/main-page/ https://us.gestalten.com/products/ukraine-rising
In 2017 Ukrainian American doctors Nelya and Serhii Melnitchouk founded a non-profit to work on improving cancer and trauma care in Ukraine. The focus of Global Medical Knowledge Alliance (GMKA) is to develop physician and patient educational content that is evidence based, written by experts, and available through an online educational platform. Serhii is a cardiac surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Nelya is a cancer surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and also a Harvard Medical School assistant professor in Boston. They discuss their non-profit project and how it is bringing a higher level of medical care to Ukraine. https://gmka.org/
The implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine could bring an important new source to ensure energy security. Taras Popadynets, head of Geothermal Ukraine, and Yuliia Demchuk, board member, discuss why the NGO Geothermal Ukraine was established and what the advantages are in the implementation of geothermal energy in Ukraine. https://geothermalukraine.org/
Prof. Volodymyr Dubovyk is the Director, Center for International Studies at Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian expert on U.S.-Ukraine relations and security in the Black Sea region. Prof. Dubovyk is currently a visiting scholar at the Tufts University Fletcher Russia and Eurasia program in Massachusetts. He offers his views on U.S.-Ukraine relations and Ukraine's increasing success in counteracting Russia in the Black Sea region. http://cis-onu.com/en/cv-dubovyk
On June 5, 2023, the Kahkovka Dam was breached in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The disaster has been cited as evidence of Russian ecological warfare against Ukraine. Freelance Ukrainian American journalist Mark Temnycky talks about what happened and the long term impact for Ukraine and the global economy. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/mark-temnycky/
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) promotes the research, study, and understanding of the Holodomor, which was the man-made Famine in Ukraine of 1932–33. HREC was established in 2013 with the generous support of the Temerty Foundation as a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta. The HREC mandate is carried out by CIUS staff in Toronto and Edmonton offices and researchers in Ukraine. Executive Director Marta Baziuk discusses the history of the HREC and its current programs to recognize the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor. https://holodomor.ca/
Pavlo Kovtoniuk is a cofounder of the Ukrainian Health Center (UHC). The UHC is a think tank based in Kyiv Ukraine offering consultancy, analytics, and educational services. Mr. Kovtoniuk talks about the extreme challenges faced by the health care system in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February 2024 and offers his views on what might lie ahead. https://uhc.org.ua/en/home/
Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and expert on foreign affairs. She is a cofounder of the independent media Hromadske TV and the Reckoning Project, which was established to document war crimes in Ukraine. Ms. Gumenyuk is also the CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab. She gives her perspectives on how Ukrainian society has changed during the war and why securing Crimea is critical to long term peace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nataliya_Gumenyuk
There is an ongoing battle against Russian disinformation about Ukraine being fought today. Julia Petryk, the head of PR with the Ukrainian software firm MacPaw, is also the cofounder of the Ukrainian PR Army. The worldwide group (mostly volunteer) was formed shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred in February 2022. Ms. Petryk talks about how and why the group was established, its challenges and successes. https://www.pr.army/
Alex Lissitsa is an agribusiness expert, a Presidium member with the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club and CEO of the Warsaw-listed agricultural company IMC. He discusses the current Russian blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea grain exports and shipping and its impact on global food insecurity. www.linkedin.com/in/alex-lissitsa/
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