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Episode #35 is dedicated to the wave of personnel replacements in Ukraine's Ministry of Defense and the military.    Host Anastasiia Lapatina is joined by the Kyiv Independent reporter Igor Kossov.   "This Week in Ukraine" is also available on YouTube.   Support the Kyiv Independent by becoming a member: https://kyivindependent.com/membership/   The Kyiv Independent:  Twiter – https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/kyivindependent Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/kyivindepen...   Anastasiia Lapatina: Twitter – https://twitter.com/lapatina_   Igor Kossov: Twitter – https://twitter.com/IgorKossov   This episode was edited by Anthony Bartaway.

Appointed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Her Excellency Oksana Markarova began her tenure as Ambassador to the U.S. on April 20, 2021. Less than a year later, Russia invaded Ukraine, escalating the ongoing conflict between the two countries and highlighting the importance of the relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine. Ambassador Markarova serves an important role in educating the public about the war and the humanitarian crisis it has caused.rnrnFrom 2015 to 2020 Amb. Markarova served in Ukraine's Ministry of Finance where she headed the country's economic recovery program, oversaw fiscal consolidation, and coordinated International Monetary Fund programs. Markarova also has an acclaimed career in the private sector where she spent 17 years in leadership roles at financial institutions, including with the Western NIS Enterprise Fund.rnrnA Republican from Cincinnati, Rob Portman served as a United States senator from Ohio from 2011 to 2023, and as the co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus--where he worked across the aisle to build support for the emerging democracy in Eastern Europe. Portman previously spoke about his efforts for support and peace in Ukraine in April 2022 at the City Club.

Episode #23 is dedicated to corruption scandals in Ukraine's Ministry of Defense.    Anastasiia is joined by the Kyiv Independent's investigative reporter Danylo Mokryk.   "This Week in Ukraine" is also available on YouTube.   Become a member of the Kyiv Independent community or support us with a one-time donation.    Follow the Kyiv Independent on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.   Anastasiia Lapatina: Twitter – https://twitter.com/lapatina_   Danylo Mokryk: Twitter – https://twitter.com/DMokryk    The episode was edited by Anthony Bartaway.

Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova grew up during the downfall of the Soviet Union. She spent much of her career helping rebuild Ukraine's economy after the country became independent, working in the private sector before joining Ukraine's Ministry of Finance. She was appointed Ambassador to the U.S. in 2021 in part to help strengthen economic ties, but her priorities quickly shifted after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Amb. Markarova joined David to talk about her upbringing and the difficulty and hope that came with Ukrainian independence, her view of President Zelensky, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and why this war in an existential threat to all who believe in democracy.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

The American Probation and Parole Association's International Relations Committee continues to shine a light on our global probation partners! This week, sharing insights from Kiev! Margarita Potseluiko of Ukraine's Ministry of Justice talks about the work of their Probation Center against the backdrop of war. Discover incredible stores of resilience and  bravery, from Margarita's unique perspective.  Undeterred, she and her colleagues continue to deliver pretrial and probation services to their justice involved clients.  And check out the valuable links below!  APPA Training Institute info Attend APPA LIVE or VIRTUAL! The Criminologist channel on You Tube! The Paragon Group  

This week, Peter Rough and Mike Doran welcome Yuri Sak, senior advisor to Ukraine's minister of defense, to the podcast. Yuri is the brains behind the social media and messaging operation of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, and he tells Peter and Mike about the dynamics of communicating to friendly and hostile audiences alike during a time of war.

Dr Yuriy Sak is responsible for strategic communications for Ukraine's Ministry of Defence. A private sector communications expert and Oxford graduate, like all Ukrainians Yuriy's life was upended when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.  Misha and Yuriy caught up to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the bloody battle of Bahkmut, the coming counter offensive, what life was like before the war, how Putinism has infected Russia's soul, why Australian support matters so much, why a land war in Eastern Europe is central to the fate of the world and how despite everything Ukraine will win. You can follow Misha and diplomates here: @mishazelinsky @diplomatesshow Please check out Misha Zelinsky's column in the Australian Financial Review here: https://www.afr.com/by/misha-zelinsky-p5363hSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, President Vladimir Putin has declared. But he said the move would not violate nuclear non-proliferation agreements and compared it to the US stationing its weapons in Europe. We'll hear what an advisor to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence thinks about the situation and what it tells us about the closeness between Russia and its neighbouring ally Belarus. Also in the programme: As more lives are lost at sea off Tunisia, why are so many sub-Saharan migrants now using the country as a departure point to cross the Mediterranean to Europe? And why the people of Lebanon have woken up today in two time zones. (Photo shows Vladimir Putin at a recent meeting with members of the Security Council. Credit: Alexei Babushkin/Kremlin via Reuters)

The news cycle has been dominated by coverage of the sudden collapse of FTX, one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, the arrest of its 30 year old founder Sam Bankman Fried and his unexplainable release on a 250 million dollar bond. The crash of FTX has shaken the crypto market, lost institutional investors billions – and individual customers millions – led to official investigations of FTX in several countries, and made some question whether the Bitcoin sphere might crash and burn outright, and perhaps cause wider problems for the financial system. Some take the view that FTX was a fraud all along, ever since its launch in April 2019. If that's the case, it has grave implications for the US Democratic Party and Ukrainian government, as the company's corrupt activity may have been used to fund both, openly and secretly. Where's the money, Zelensky? On March 14, FTX launched a new online portal for cryptocurrency donations, Aid for Ukraine, in partnership with Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation. Through this, crypto traders, both large and small, could donate bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which FTX would convert into cash for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to spend on weapons and other war-related expenses. Very rapidly, the fund claimed to have amassed “over” $60 million in donations. By April 14, it was reported that just over $45.15 million of that sum had been splurged on digital rifle scopes, thermal imagers, monoculars, rations, armor, helmets, military clothing, tactical backpacks, fuel, communication devices, laptops, drones, medical supplies, and a “worldwide anti-war media campaign.” This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/25/is-there-a-link-between-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-aid-to-ukraine-and-the-democratic-party/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/world-voices/support

Cobalt Mirage deploys Drokbk malware. Zombinder in the C2C market. Impersonation scams: that's not Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation. On the cyber front, nothing new. CISA releases three new ICS advisories. Caleb Barlow on attack surface management. Mike Hamilton from Critical Insight explains how state and local governments apply for the $1 billion allocated by the feds for cybersecurity funding. And criminals prey on other criminals. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/235 Selected reading. Drokbk Malware Uses GitHub as Dead Drop Resolver (Secureworks) Zombinder: new obfuscation service used by Ermac, now distributed next to desktop stealers (ThreatFabric) Crypto Winter: Fraudsters Impersonate Ukraine's Government to Steal NFTs and Cryptocurrency (DomainTools) Danish defence ministry says its websites hit by cyberattack (Reuters) Kela website hit by DoS attack (Yle) Advantech iView (CISA)  AVEVA InTouch Access Anywhere (CISA) Rockwell Automation Logix controllers (CISA)  The scammers who scam scammers on cybercrime forums: Part 1 (Sophos News)  Cyber-criminals Scammed Each Other Out of Millions in 2022 (Infosecurity Magazine)

Today RC Williams and Julianna Ormond, co-founders of Sherloc Market Research join Carl for a second time to discuss the implosion of FTX and it's founder Sam Bankman-Fried, aka SBF. What they reveal is alarming. Including: 1)FTX's connections to the global elites and the World Economic Forum; 2) their cozy relationship with the Democratic Party and Republican Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 3) SBF's well connected family that helps to raise money for Democrats from Silicon Valley; 4) why SBF likely launched an initiative alongside Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation as a PONZI Scheme and why it's unlikely he'll be brought to justice More: www.TheCarljacksonshow.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carljacksonradio Twitter: https://twitter.com/carljacksonshow Parler: https://parler.com/carljacksonshow http://www.TheCarlJacksonPodcast.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today RC Williams and Julianna Ormond, co-founders of Sherloc Market Research join Carl for a second time to discuss the implosion of FTX and it's founder Sam Bankman-Fried, aka SBF. What they reveal is alarming. Including: 1)FTX's connections to the global elites and the World Economic Forum; 2) their cozy relationship with the Democratic Party and Republican Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 3) SBF's well connected family that helps to raise money for Democrats from Silicon Valley; 4) why SBF likely launched an initiative alongside Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation as a PONZI Scheme and why it's unlikely he'll be brought to justice More: www.TheCarljacksonshow.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carljacksonradio Twitter: https://twitter.com/carljacksonshow Parler: https://parler.com/carljacksonshow http://www.TheCarlJacksonPodcast.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nation-states are expected to target the US midterm elections. North Korea's Lazarus Group is targeting energy companies. The Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation on cyber lessons learned from Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine. CISA flags twelve known exploited vulnerabilities for attention and remediation. Vulnerable anti-cheat engines used for malicious purposes. Steve Carter from Nucleus Security has thoughts on AI in cybersecurity. Roland Cloutier, former CSO of TikTok, discusses working around the changing career field, needs, and how enterprise executives are developing and finding talent. And a look at top gaming-related malware lures. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing: https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/174 Selected reading. Mandiant ‘highly confident' foreign cyberspies will target US midterm elections (The Register) What to Expect When You're Electing: Preparing for Cyber Threats to the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections (Mandiant) North Korea's Lazarus hackers are exploiting Log4j flaw to hack US energy companies (TechCrunch) Lazarus and the tale of three RATs (Cisco Talos) How Gaming Cheats Are Cashing in Below the Operating System (Eclypsium) Good game, well played: an overview of gaming-related cyberthreats in 2022 (Securelist) Cybercriminals target games popular with kids to distribute malware (The Register) CISA Adds Twelve Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog  (CISA)

Kim Kardashian is abandoning the black woman aesthetic. Ukraine's Ministry of Defense uses Pusha T's lyrics to chart beatdown of Russia. Follow me on Twitter & Instagram: @isiddavis Podcast IG: @thesocialintrovertpodcast Podcast Twitter: @SocialIntroPod Send emails to: thesocialintrovertpodcast@gmail.com music featured: YUNA - Relax Your Mind

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has warned that Moscow is preparing to intensify its assault in the east of the country. Also in the programme: an optical illusion in the sky; and wildfires spreading through one of the coldest places on Earth. (Photo: A Ukrainian service member inspects a destroyed Russian Armoured Personnel Carrier, Ukraine April 30, 2022. CREDIT: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Ready to hear from Salesforce's first developer? Tune in to our interview with Lou Fox, a technologist and innovator who has seen the evolution of Salesforce from its earliest days into a global powerhouse.During our conversation, Lou shares his origin story and unconventional path into the world of Salesforce and cloud technology. He reveals a game-changing moment in Salesforce development as well as how his approach (and priorities) in management and innovation have evolved to focus on people, storytelling, and communication first.Lou's Customer Obsessed Picks:Bleeding Pinstripes: A Season with the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee StadiumThe Best American Short StoriesAs we mentioned during the episode, here are resources and ways to help Ukrainians affected by the war with Russia. (Source: Global Citizen)1. People in Need is providing humanitarian aid to over 200,000 people on the ground. For those most in need, they provide food packages, emergency shelter, safe access to drinking water, hygiene items, and coal for heating. Donate here.2. The Ukrainian Red Cross does loads of humanitarian work, from aiding refugees to training doctors. Donate here.3. The International Medical Corps is on the front lines and prepared to help citizens with emergency health care services, as well as mental health and psychosocial support. The agency is also keeping the pandemic top of mind throughout the crisis by prioritizing COVID-19 awareness and prevention services, to help keep displaced citizens safe from the pandemic. Donate here.4. CARE is responding to the crisis by providing Ukrainians in need with food, hygiene kits, psychosocial support services, access to water, and access to cash. Donate here. 5. Nova Ukraine is a nonprofit that delivers aid packages to Ukraine with everything from baby food and hygiene products, to clothes and household supplies. Donate here.6. UNICEF is repairing schools damaged by the bombings and providing an emergency response to children affected by the conflict. Donate here.7. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has stepped up its operations and is working with governments in neighboring countries "calling on them to keep borders open to those seeking safety and protection.” You can help support the UNHCR's work supporting refugees by donating here and take action here to send a tweet urging governments and businesses to support the United Nations' urgent appeal for $1.7 billion to deliver life-saving humanitarian support.8. OutRight Action International is helping to support LGBTQ+ groups and organizations on the ground, setting up shelters, and providing safety for citizens. All donations made to OutRight will go directly to the cause. You can donate here. 9. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is deploying emergency operations in Ukraine and surrounding countries to provide food assistance to those fleeing the conflict. Donate here.10. Save the Children is working with partners to respond to meet the urgent needs of affected children and their families. It's ready to provide life-saving assistance, such as food, water, cash transfers, and safe places for children as people flee amid freezing temperatures and brutal conditions, and to scale up options to ensure children impacted by the crisis have the support they need. Find out more and donate here. 11. SOS Children's Villages has worked in Ukraine since 2003 and is coordinating an emergency response to support families who are living in the conflict areas and those who have been internally displaced. Find out more and donate here. 12. Mercy Corps is mobilizing a team to the region to assess where help is most needed and is anticipating providing emergency cash assistance, as well as supporting local organizations that know their community needs best. Between 2015 and 2017, Mercy Corps provided humanitarian assistance in eastern Ukraine, reaching more than 200,000 people with emergency cash, food, water, and sanitation supplies, small business development grants, restoring war-damaged homes, and more. Find out more and donate here.13. Medical Teams International is fundraising to send medical supplies to the region, with all proceeds going towards sending medicines and/or medical supplies. Learn more and donate here. 14. The World Health Organization Foundation is raising funds for WHO's Health Emergency Appeal for Ukraine. An estimated $57.5 million must be raised to deliver urgent physical and mental health care to the 18 million people in Ukraine needing urgent humanitarian assistance, and more than 4 million refugees who'll need protection and assistance in the coming months. You can donate here, and share the WHO Foundation's call for donations on your own social media, including Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. 15. Alight is a humanitarian nonprofit that has sent teams of emergency response workers to Poland to assist with the burgeoning refugee population by helping to meet all of their material and psychosocial needs. You can donate here. 16. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is on the front lines of the world's conflicts, natural disasters, and other crises, helping people recover from extreme hardship and put their lives back together. The IRC currently has a team dispatched to Poland that's helping to provide food, medical care, and emergency support services to families who fled Ukraine amid the violence. You can donate here.17. Team Rubicon mobilizes their highly skilled volunteers to help people prepare, respond, and recover from disasters and humanitarian crises. As a World Health Organization Emergency Medical Team mobile unit, Team Rubicon has sent a small team to Poland, including physicians with expertise in pediatrics and maternal and reproductive health care. Donate here to help Team Rubicon rapidly respond to meet humanitarian needs. 18. Direct Relief is working directly with Ukraine's Ministry of Health and other on-the-ground partners to provide urgently needed medical aid, including emergency response packs intended for first responders, oxygen concentrators, critical care medicines, and much more. Donate here. 19. GlobalGiving has its Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund, with all donations to the fund going to support humanitarian assistance in impacted communities in Ukraine and surrounding regions. GlobalGiving's network of over 30 grassroots NGOs are bringing relief to terrified and displaced communities, and they need resources to continue their life-saving work. Donate here. 

Direct Relief President and CEO Thomas Tighe joins CEO Dan Leonard to talk about the humanitarian support Direct Relief is providing at the request of Ukraine's Ministry of Health in the war-torn country and to millions of its refugees in border countries. “We're so thankful for the [generic industry's] responsiveness. They don't have to do this, it's not their job. That they did it means a lot. It means a lot for people in Ukraine.”

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ukraine Post #7: More Data and Peace Terms, published by Zvi on March 25, 2022 on LessWrong. I was mostly happy with the Covid-style approach I tried out last time. This is an update of ‘all the things worth noting since then' but excluding prediction markets. I plan to do a prediction market update next, and keep those two tracks distinct. I do talk a bit about how I would characterize various final settlements, with an aim of getting prediction markets that can better reflect the nature of the final outcome. Note that there is also an essentially endless list of claims of Russian war crimes and crimes against humanity, and I'm almost entirely not including them. You do not need me to tell you about this aspect of what is going on. Lots of detail keeps coming in, and there are many incremental changes and updates, but the central facts seem similar to how they seemed as of my last post, so I won't be re-summarizing them. Things are no longer moving quite so fast. Potential Donations From Bloomberg on March 15, an economist talks about fighting for Ukraine. Here is the money quote, file under Huge If True (but I can't evaluate it). We don't need food or paper towels. What the army needs is munitions and people need medical supplies, specific medical supplies. Most people die from blood loss after a cluster bomb or after some kind of ballistic missile falls. There may be 20 or 200 people wounded. It's a little bit like when an airplane cabin loses pressure, the masks fall down — and what you need to do is to put the mask on yourself and then help others. So in this case, the mask analogy is a medical kit, which allows you to stop bleeding. So you really have to ensure that you are not bleeding, and then that people next to you are not bleeding. So you have to have a lot of these medical kits, and they usually cost 10 or 20 bucks. But now of course they cost 100 bucks because it's surge pricing and no one can deliver. So we are trying to focus on this specifically. Civilian authorities need them and even railroads are asking for these medical kits because evacuation trains get shelled and people die without this specific kit. We will deliver them. We have connections, there'll be no [extra overhead charges]. It doesn't get stolen on the way. And [your donation] is also tax deductible in the U.S. So for $100, you'll save a life and get your taxes back. There is a catch. It's not so easy to actually get things where they need be. And you need to get suppliers. In war, there are so many intermediaries and fees. So you have to establish a procurement department to figure out who is serious. Once you have suppliers, you have to figure out all the [wartime] export licenses, all these government regulations. And of course things get stolen on the way. For example, one large, well-known American charity sends 95 pallets of medical supplies to Ukraine. When it arrives, it's only two pallets because 93 of them got stolen somewhere. Not in Ukraine — either in Poland or even in New Jersey. So you have to watch for this. You actually have to put your own people in Warsaw or in New Jersey, in Israel, in Sweden, to check what has been loaded at every point so that it doesn't get stolen. It's a logistical nightmare. And when you finally get it to Ukraine, people are shooting at you at checkpoints. One specific thing: We need 307,000 medical kits. I have the specification. Let's say Israel can only supply 30,000 and Canada probably can supply 20 or 30,000. But we have suppliers who can provide the medical kits. We give this specification to [Ukraine's] Ministry of Health, and our charitable foundation will pay. So tag me or email me or ping me on Twitter — and then donate, please donate.All the fundraising goes directly to logistics. I have a website at the university of the charitable...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ukraine Post #7: More Data and Peace Terms, published by Zvi on March 25, 2022 on LessWrong. I was mostly happy with the Covid-style approach I tried out last time. This is an update of ‘all the things worth noting since then' but excluding prediction markets. I plan to do a prediction market update next, and keep those two tracks distinct. I do talk a bit about how I would characterize various final settlements, with an aim of getting prediction markets that can better reflect the nature of the final outcome. Note that there is also an essentially endless list of claims of Russian war crimes and crimes against humanity, and I'm almost entirely not including them. You do not need me to tell you about this aspect of what is going on. Lots of detail keeps coming in, and there are many incremental changes and updates, but the central facts seem similar to how they seemed as of my last post, so I won't be re-summarizing them. Things are no longer moving quite so fast. Potential Donations From Bloomberg on March 15, an economist talks about fighting for Ukraine. Here is the money quote, file under Huge If True (but I can't evaluate it). We don't need food or paper towels. What the army needs is munitions and people need medical supplies, specific medical supplies. Most people die from blood loss after a cluster bomb or after some kind of ballistic missile falls. There may be 20 or 200 people wounded. It's a little bit like when an airplane cabin loses pressure, the masks fall down — and what you need to do is to put the mask on yourself and then help others. So in this case, the mask analogy is a medical kit, which allows you to stop bleeding. So you really have to ensure that you are not bleeding, and then that people next to you are not bleeding. So you have to have a lot of these medical kits, and they usually cost 10 or 20 bucks. But now of course they cost 100 bucks because it's surge pricing and no one can deliver. So we are trying to focus on this specifically. Civilian authorities need them and even railroads are asking for these medical kits because evacuation trains get shelled and people die without this specific kit. We will deliver them. We have connections, there'll be no [extra overhead charges]. It doesn't get stolen on the way. And [your donation] is also tax deductible in the U.S. So for $100, you'll save a life and get your taxes back. There is a catch. It's not so easy to actually get things where they need be. And you need to get suppliers. In war, there are so many intermediaries and fees. So you have to establish a procurement department to figure out who is serious. Once you have suppliers, you have to figure out all the [wartime] export licenses, all these government regulations. And of course things get stolen on the way. For example, one large, well-known American charity sends 95 pallets of medical supplies to Ukraine. When it arrives, it's only two pallets because 93 of them got stolen somewhere. Not in Ukraine — either in Poland or even in New Jersey. So you have to watch for this. You actually have to put your own people in Warsaw or in New Jersey, in Israel, in Sweden, to check what has been loaded at every point so that it doesn't get stolen. It's a logistical nightmare. And when you finally get it to Ukraine, people are shooting at you at checkpoints. One specific thing: We need 307,000 medical kits. I have the specification. Let's say Israel can only supply 30,000 and Canada probably can supply 20 or 30,000. But we have suppliers who can provide the medical kits. We give this specification to [Ukraine's] Ministry of Health, and our charitable foundation will pay. So tag me or email me or ping me on Twitter — and then donate, please donate.All the fundraising goes directly to logistics. I have a website at the university of the charitable...

As the conflict continues in Ukraine, we've seen footage of predominately women and children fleeing the country. But that is just one aspect of this conflict. There are also many women who have stayed in Ukraine and signed up to fight. Back in December, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence expanded the number of women who are eligible for mandatory service in the armed forces. They will be joining the 57,000 or so women, aged 18 to 60, already serving. But is there an appetite for more women to sign up? And what roles are they likely to play? Jessica Creighton hears from Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian MP who describes her new reality of being trained to use an assault rifle to defend her family and her country and Dr. Olesya Khromeychuk, Director of the Ukrainian Institute, London. President Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, calling her "one of the nation's brightest legal minds". She will be the first black woman to serve in the court's 232-year history if confirmed and would mean four women may sit together on the nine-member court for the first time. Kimberly Peeler-Allen the co-founder of Higher Heights, an organisation that builds the collective political power of Black women, discusses the significance of her nomination. If the Mona Lisa could speak what would she say? A new novel by Natasha Solomons gives voice to the painting and lets her tell her own story. Natasha and the Da Vinci expert Professor Martin Kemp join Jessica. What does it mean to be a “dangerous woman”? That is something Dr Jo Shaw of the University of Edinburgh has been studying and has led to a new book with fifty essays from different women reflecting on the topic from around the world. The idea that women are dangerous individually or collectively permeates many historical periods, cultures and areas of contemporary life. It has been used to describe the Labour MP and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti, and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who was labelled by the Daily Mail as “the most dangerous woman in the UK”. But what lies behind this label and what does it say about the power dynamics with which women live with today? Jessica speaks to Dr Jo Shaw of the University of Edinburgh and the journalist Bidisha, whose essay is part of the collection.

The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion. The official said the US has evidence that the operatives are trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces. The allegation echoes a statement released by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense on Friday, which said that Russian special services are preparing provocations against Russian forces in an attempt to frame Ukraine. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hinted at the intelligence during a briefing with reporters on Thursday.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Gold is now Burkina Faso's most valuable export, but it's come at a price. Last month the government announced the closure of small mines in the northern province of Sahel following a deadly attack by Islamic extremists. BBC Africa's Lalla Sy has been following the story from neighbouring Ivory Coast. Remembering Dilip Kumar Dilip Kumar, one of India's earliest and most famous film actors, died this week at the age of 98. We hear some of the many reasons why he was so special from Vandana at BBC Delhi, who has admired Dilip Kumar all her life. Ukrainian heels High heels and marching soldiers - not a natural pairing perhaps, and one that directed outrage towards Ukraine's Ministry of Defence. BBC Ukrainian's Irena Taranyuk shares the story. Afghan resistance Stories of territorial gains by the Taliban have been extensively covered by BBC Uzbek, which has a big audience among ethnic Uzbeks in northern Afghanistan. Firuz Rahimi is from Jowzjan province, where news outlets have reported that women are joining militias to resist the Taliban. Cuba's Jewish community BBC Mundo's Jose Carlos Cueta is Cuban, but only discovered by chance that the island had a small Jewish community. He got digging, and traces its history from Christopher Columbus in 1492, to its peak after the First World War and its presence today. Image: Gold panning in a Burkina Faso artisan mine, 2006 Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Images