Evita's Christmas special: Entity known as "Kristaps" and it's impact on regular human life.
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Hi there, comrades! Here comes the promised episode by Evita (you asked for it yourself, kapish?) where she trauma-dumps, jokes and talks about her past in Russian-centered environment. And complains about Kristaps, a little bit. Also you can consider it a preview for future episodes about wild Russian pop culture lore.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
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| 0:05.4 | It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:09.2 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:13.0 | Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. |
| 0:17.3 | As you may have noticed, it's not Christop's this time. |
| 0:22.8 | It's his little angry wife, Evita. |
| 0:36.4 | So apparently you wanted to hear how Christop's journalism and all this situation with Madniks and war changed my life and, well, why not? |
| 0:42.1 | Let's try this out. Just a disclaimer, I'm doing it for the first time, so maybe the sound might be a little bit off or me telling a story might not be as |
| 0:51.2 | linear or a bit jagged. |
| 0:56.6 | So excuse me for that. |
| 0:58.9 | I will try my best. |
| 1:01.4 | And so, okay, here's my story. |
| 1:06.0 | So I grew up in a very Russian-centered environment. |
| 1:12.5 | And what does it mean? |
| 1:20.9 | My hometown Salasbills and the district in this city where I lived for the most of my life was mostly inhabited, so to speak, by Russian or at least Russian-speaking people. |
| 1:30.7 | So it meant that most of my friends were Russian, and Russian also is my second native language |
| 1:39.1 | as I am speaking Russian with my mom who moved to Latvia from Belarus during Soviet times |
| 1:46.8 | and it's her main preferred language still |
| 1:51.4 | because she was working in a very Russian-centered environment |
| 1:56.1 | and was learning in Russian universities and so yada yada. |
| 2:01.3 | But at least I have two native languages, which is really nice. |
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