On the brinkmanship: a special episode on Ukraine and Russia
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We unpick the week’s torrent of headlines; an invasion may yet come but either way President Vladimir Putin has already harmed Russia. The country’s digital self-isolation project is quietly forging ahead; we examine its home-grown “tech stack” with everything from chips up to apps. And we hear from a Ukrainian woman whose life has been upended by the conflict’s uncertainties.
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| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to a special episode of the intelligence from the economist. |
| 1:06.0 | Today we'll be focusing on Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:09.0 | We'll take a look at a week punctuated by the drumbeat |
| 1:12.0 | of war. It seemed imminent, then less likely, then, well, it's still unclear. We'll examine Russia's |
| 1:19.5 | quiet but relentless effort to insulate itself in the digital world, and we'll hear from |
| 1:24.9 | a Ukrainian woman whose life has been upended by all the uncertainty. |
| 1:32.0 | But first... |
| 1:37.3 | We are not scared any prognosis. |
| 1:39.3 | We are not scared by any other people, no other enemies. |
| 1:45.0 | We are not scared by any scenario, |
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