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Episode Summary

Yewleea has a conversation with Rory Finnin, Ph.D, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. He launched the Cambridge Ukrainian Studies programme in 2008. He is also co-organiser of the Disinformation and Media Literacy Special Interest Group at the University of Cambridge. In 2015 he won a Teaching Award for Outstanding Lecturer from the Cambridge University Students' Union (CUSU), the representative body for all students at the University. Rory and Yewleea spend today's Brief talking about russian imperialism, the failure of the West to recognize russia for the death cult that it is, and what we can do to prevent something like the War in Ukraine from ever happening again.

Yewleea's article "Why is the West So Eager to Consume Russian Propaganda?"

Yewleea's article "What Are the Pillars of Russification?"

Buy Rory's book Blood of Others and the book he co-authored with Alexander Etkind, et al Remembering Katyn

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