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🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Today we visit a village in central Georgia near South Asetia, where the locals feel the |
0:11.1 | long-hand of Moscow on an almost daily basis. |
0:15.2 | In Iceland, our correspondent scrapes beneath the surface of the country's earnest reputation |
0:20.6 | as a flag bearer for gender equality. |
0:23.8 | We hear how Zimbabwe's nurses are fleeing the country in large numbers after their |
0:29.0 | once-celebrated health care system has been left to disintegrate. |
0:34.1 | And we attend Raleigh in the Philippines as it prepares to go to the Poles, where the |
0:38.8 | Morkos and Duterte legacy is undergoing a rebrand. |
0:43.3 | First, it's three decades since the end of the Soviet Union, ever since Russia's been |
0:49.4 | grappling with how to keep its old empire close to it, how to retain influence through |
0:55.1 | a mixture of charm and bullying. |
0:58.4 | Now NATO Allies have been shaken as Russia embarked on a fully fledged offensive into |
1:04.0 | Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday. |
1:07.7 | Andrew Harding spent all of the 1990s living in and reporting on the aftermath of the Soviet |
1:13.4 | collapse, and he reflects on how the past shed light on current events. |
1:19.5 | The vodka was the same, so with the toasts and the bread, the gerkens, the songs. |
1:26.2 | This was three years ago, in a small apartment in northern Moscow, maybe 15 of us, a reunion |
1:32.6 | with friends from way back. |
1:35.0 | The men still slipping out of the room and onto the freezing cold balcony for a cigarette. |
1:40.2 | But something had changed, a heaviness hanging over the evening. |
1:45.2 | I first come to live in Moscow in the late autumn of 1991, weeks after the attempted coup |
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