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KennanX

29 episodes

KennanX is a podcast on our never ending quest to understand Russia, Ukraine and the surrounding region. The KennanX podcast is hosted by Wilson Center Global Fellow Jill Dougherty. 

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Zhanna Nemtsova appears at a protest in support of Ukraine against Russian invasion in March 2022
Podcast
Education
Changing Russia’s Future with Zhanna Nemtsova
38:31July 5, 2023
Estonian Secretary General for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jonatan Vseviov surveys damage from Russian military attacks at Antonov Airport in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
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Global Alliances & Partnerships
Estonia on the Edge: A Conversation with Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov
21:00June 2, 2023
Rye bread
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Society and Culture
Russian Cuisine and Conflict with Darra Goldstein
26:16March 29, 2023
John Sullivan speaks at the 2018 Munich Security Conference
Podcast
U.S. Foreign Policy
Is Russia Serious About Diplomacy? With Amb. John Sullivan
31:08February 6, 2023
A phone screen depicting the Youtube channel of Russian-language independent television channel TV Rain, also known as Dozhd
Podcast
Press Freedom
The Storm Over TV Rain
13:40December 15, 2022
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse speaks into a microphone
Podcast
Governance
Fighting Strategic Corruption with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
17:53November 9, 2022
A composite photo with the Russian flag in the background, and barbed wire and a television news camera in the foreground
Podcast
Press Freedom
Russia's New Expats pt. 2
16:21July 19, 2022
Foreign journalists interview Ukrainian soldiers.
Podcast
Press Freedom
Russia's New Expats
34:34June 14, 2022
Catherine Ashton to Lead Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program
Podcast
Special Announcement + Rebroadcast: Who is Vladimir Putin?
39:35March 25, 2022
Ukraine and Toy Soldiers
Podcast
International Security
Putin’s Red Lines on Ukraine
23:50December 20, 2021
Seriouse woman placing her finger on lips - keep silence or secret. Mouth close up
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Society and Culture
Dangerous Whispers: Politics and Conspiracies in the post-Soviet Space
21:52November 3, 2021
Soldiers walking away from camera with planes overhead
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U.S. Foreign Policy
Hindsight Up Front | Complicated Legacies: The U.S. and Russia in Afghanistan
49:04September 9, 2021
Brussels, Belgium. 21st September 2020. Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and European Parliament President David Sassoli attend a news conference.
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Democracy Promotion
A Demonstration for Dignity: A Conversation with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
31:37July 27, 2021
The Russian flag with a fingerprint transposed over the top
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Cybersecurity
Do Russia and the United States speak the same language on Cyber?
27:22July 8, 2021
US reconnaissance photo of Soviet missile site at Mariel Naval Port, Cuba, November 8, 1962
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History
Triggered: The Cuban Missile Crisis
30:42April 21, 2021
Mosaic design in blue and yellow
Podcast
Elections
Protests on the Silk Road: Analyzing Central Asia with the Oxus Society
16:59December 18, 2020
Boys and girls at Global Youth Voice - AIESEC International Congress 2012 in MGIMO, on August 18, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
Podcast
Society and Culture
The Putin Generation
23:05December 3, 2020
Peaceful protest of women in white in Belarus. August 2020.
Podcast
Civil Society
Belarus - The Ladies in White
21:08October 30, 2020
Selective text of words "politically correct"
Podcast
Society and Culture
"'You Can't Say That!' - Political Correctness, Russian-style
18:47September 15, 2020
Fake news image
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Disinformation
"Disinformation’s Threat to Democracy"
20:57August 14, 2020
George Soros at the Festival of Economics 2012
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Governance
"George Soros: The Anatomy of a Global Conspiracy Theory"
13:24July 10, 2020
CIRCA NOVEMBER 2018: a post stamp printed in the USSR shows Pioneers of Different Peoples, Globe, the series "The 40th Anniversary of All-Union Lenin Pioneer Organization", circa 1962
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Race and Ethnicity
"Yelena Khanga: On Family, Growing Up in the USSR, and Black Lives Matter"
16:37June 25, 2020
Vector image
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Cybersecurity
"Mixed Signals in the Cyber Realm"
19:52May 29, 2020
Health workers on a Moscow subway car.
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Coronavirus
"Russia's COVID Crisis"
22:14May 15, 2020
Cropped Cover of Beyond the North Wind
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Society and Culture
"Russkiy Stol: Russian Cuisine with Darra Goldstein"
21:31April 10, 2020
Two russian passports in hand. Russian official document on outdoor background
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Civil Society
"Brain Drain"
14:08March 11, 2020
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the Prague Treaty in 2010.
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Nuclear Weapons
"Nuclear Insecurity: Should New START Die?"
19:12January 21, 2020
Craig Mazin speaks at the event on the HBO miniseries Chernobyl this June.
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History
KennanX Podcast Episode 1:"Meltdown"
21:25January 9, 2020