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The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. I'm not going to be. Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Alexei Radinsky.

We talked about the current situation in Kiev and the popular mood in Ukraine

now that a Russian victory seems quite improbable.

We went on to talk about Alexi's article, The Case Against the Russian Federation,

which appeared in E-Flux Journal, and the key features and history of Russian nationalism

and why it is that Vladimir Putin and the clique around him repeatedly misunderstand the

political realities of Ukraine and why they have continually overestimated the degree of

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