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I'm David Knowles and welcome to the special two-part episode of Ukraine, the latest.

Pravering takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

If we give President Zelensky the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job.

Slava Ukraine.

We're strong. We're Ukrainians.

During our recent trip to the United States, I hit the pleasure of visiting Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

to moderate a conversation between a group of academics.

We've presented the discussion and the questions from the listeners in the room in two parts.

In the first, we discuss the politics of modern Russia, Vladimir Putin's influence on it, and how it may change in the future.

In the second, we look closer at the relationship between Israel and Ukraine, the history of Judaism in the country, and diplomacy between the two countries.

I started our first discussion by asking each panelist to introduce themselves.

Jonathan Lincoln, I'm the director for the Center for Jewish Civilization at the School of Foreign Service here at Georgetown.

I'm new in this position and I come from practice.

I spent about 15, 16 years working with the United Nations as a diplomat, based almost entirely in the Middle East, North Africa, East Africa.

My most recent posting was in Jerusalem, working with the United Nations Special Coordinators Office, but a regional focus on Israel, the Palestinians, but of course the wider region as well.

Very keen to participate in this discussion as far as the issues that we're talking about relate to Israel and Israel's particular positioning, which I think there are a number of interesting aspects to explore.

Thank you.

Hi, everyone. My name is Maria Snigavaya. I'm a postdoctoral fellow here at Syrias at Georgetown, as well as a senior fellow in Russia and Eurasia at Center for Strategic International Studies.

I'm from Russia originally, but I've been living in the United States for over 12 years, and throughout most of the time I've been studying Russia's domestic and foreign policy, trying to understand what the hell is going on. Still working on this.

I'm Diana Dometro. I'm the chair of Romanian Studies here at Georgetown University. My area of my research and what I'm also trying to teach is directly connected to the Jewish history and history of Holocaust.

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