A People-Centered View of Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Almut Rochowanski)

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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1:23 Almut’s work as a feminist activist in the former Soviet Union 11:53 How economic anxiety helped tear Ukraine apart 23:12 The very complex coalition behind the Maidan Revolution 30:24 Could wiser European Union policy have averted the Russia-Ukraine conflict? 37:11 Queer feminists and the ultra-right in Ukraine 48:20 The nature of Ukrainian nationalism 59:12 Heading into Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Almut Rochowanski (https://discomfortzone.substack.com/). Recorded September 12, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Hi, Almut.
0:35.8	Hi, Bob.
0:36.7	How are you?
0:38.0	I'm great. Thanks.
0:39.6	Good. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletter.
0:44.3	This is a non-zero podcast. You are Almut Rojoanski. If you want to do a complete
0:50.1	re-pronunciation of the whole thing so that they'll know how it's actually pronounced, feel free.
0:55.8	Almond Rochowansky.
0:57.2	Well, okay, there you go.
0:59.4	Exactly as I said it.
1:01.7	Okay, so you are a human rights activist, and you are Austrian.
1:08.2	Are you in Austria now?
1:09.9	No, I'm in Maine. You now? No, I'm in Maine.
1:11.4	You're in Maine?
1:12.5	I'm in Maine.
1:13.6	Oh, wow.
1:15.3	You're on the mainland.
1:17.3	So you're a really, this isn't going to be an interesting conversation.
1:22.7	I'm really looking forward to it because you're somebody I've followed on Twitter for some time.
1:26.4	I've been impressed by the
1:27.9	acuity of your observations about various things, certainly including some topical issues like
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