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The Eastern Border

The Babchenko Affair

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Society & Culture, Cold War, Ukraine, Gonzo, History, News, Documentary, Politics, Ussr, Russia, War, Soviet

4.6879 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Greetings, Comrades!

In this episode, by popular demand, we look into the whole faked murder thing, concerning Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko. It also gets crazy, raises more questions than answers, and as I received more news, some of them being completely untested, amidst writing the script and then – recording, it’ll also allow to test my sources. All in all, complex. Yet-I hope you’ll like it!

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Forward slash plan. Greetings, comrades. This week, our episode is there because of actual popular demand. I was

1:06.1

literally bombarded about this whole thing. I was asked to speak about the Babchenkov fair

1:11.6

multiple times by various different reasons, so that's what I'm out to do here.

1:17.6

And yeah, it turns out it is a very complicated matter that literally changes even while I am writing this script.

1:24.6

I'm not even sure if this whole ends up in recording it still.

1:32.6

First, I would like to start here with an opinion that came from a listener of mine that I presume lives in Ukraine, but not being Ukrainian yourself. And I quote here.

1:39.1

I'd like my two cop-I'd like to say my two Kopex about what people are saying in Kiev.

1:43.5

Both sides are reacting

1:44.5

in two different ways. Very big frustrations are in the air that people have been feeling.

1:50.3

On one hand, there have been a lot of political assassinations, including in the very heart of

1:54.3

the capital city, and the police have done very little to resolve them. And these have been

1:59.0

some high-profile people that even nobody like me has had tangential connection to. And these have been some high profile people that even nobody

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