A Russian's View of Ukraine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The grim state of Ukraine and Russia today ... Nikita’s initial reactions to Putin’s Ukraine speech ... Is Putin getting weirder? Or is reality? Or both? ... How did Russians react to the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution? ... Russian views on NATO expansion and the color revolutions ... Nikita: Political life in Russia is (mostly) dead ... Are Putin’s actions savvy politicking or signs of madness? ... Has the West mismanaged the post-Cold War era? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.7	Hi, Nikita.
0:10.7	Hey, Bob.
0:11.5	How you doing?
0:14.4	I'm processing Putin's speech from last night, which is it's taking time.
0:21.7	Yeah, well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
0:25.2	Let me introduce this.
0:26.5	I'm Robert Wright.
0:27.5	This is the right show.
0:31.0	And you are Nikita Petrov.
0:33.4	You're a Russian.
0:34.9	You live in St. Petersburg.
0:37.2	Is that where you are now?
0:38.7	Yes, I am. And you do some work for me, but that's not really the reason you're here.
0:47.8	I just wanted to get a Russian's reaction to what's going on in Ukraine.
0:56.5	The, and you're interesting to me, because I don't want to say you're just a regular Russian.
1:03.8	You're in many ways a highly irregular person, Nikita, but you're not some kind of commentator.
1:09.4	I don't even think of you as, you're not like some kind of politics junkie.
1:15.4	You pay attention to the news, but you're, you know, your interests are more in areas like
1:22.2	art and culture.
1:24.1	You're probably, well, at the same time, I don't want to say you're kind of a typical Russian.
1:30.1	There are different subcultures in Russia, just as there are in other countries.
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