In Brief: On the Ground in Ukraine (with Dmitri Alperovitch)

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Guest host John Carlin speaks with Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a non-profit focused on advancing US prosperity and global leadership. He is also co-founder and the former CTO at CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity company. Alperovitch reflects on his recent trip to Ukraine where he met with senior government officials, the aftermath of the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed coup, and the recent cyber hacks at the Commerce and State Departments. Stay Tuned in Brief is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters@cafe.com, or leave a voicemail at 669-247-7338. For analysis of recent news at the intersection of law and politics, try the CAFE Insider membership. You can now get 40% off the first year membership price with discount code JUSTICE. Head to: cafe.com/insider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Cafe in the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is Stay Tuned In Brief.
0:09.7	I'm Pete Barara.
0:11.4	But I'm away this week.
0:12.8	So John Carlin, my friend and former colleague, will be guest hosting the show today.
0:17.2	John is a partner at the law firm of Paul Weiss and a co-chair of the firm's Cybersecurity
0:21.6	and Data Protection Practice.
0:23.4	He served as a top-level official in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
0:27.6	John speaks with Demetri Elparovic, chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a non-profit
0:32.9	focused on advancing US prosperity and global leadership.
0:36.8	Elparovic is also a co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity company.
0:43.1	Here's that conversation.
0:47.3	Demetri, welcome back.
0:49.0	You just were in Ukraine.
0:51.6	Tell me a little bit about how you arranged the trip and who you met with.
0:55.6	Yeah, so it was a great trip, very educational and very emotional as well.
1:02.5	It's of course one thing to see the imagery on social media or on television, it's another
1:08.3	thing to experience it.
1:10.9	See the real impact of this war, just even walking around Kiev, which is a very normal
1:15.0	city, very European city.
1:17.2	All the shops are open, people walking around.
1:19.1	And yet you still see a lot of amputees and the effect of this war being very real for
1:25.0	people on a daily basis.
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