In this episode of Don’t Give Up Ukraine! we discuss #Eurasianism with Andreas Umland and Hubert Smeets. Andreas Umland is poltical scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian #history as well as regime transitions. He published among others on the post-Soviet #extremeright, Ukranian and Russian #nationalism and the #Donbas and #Crimea conflicts. He is Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future well as a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in #Stockholm. Andreas Umland also teaches as Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of #Kyiv -Mohyla Academy. Hubert Smeets is a Dutch journalist and historian. He is one of the founders of the knowledge and analysis platform Raam op Rusland (Window on #Russia). Hubert Smeets is a prominent commentator on the #war in Ukraine. He worked for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. From 2003 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the Dutch opinion weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. In 2015 he published his book De wraak van Poetin (The revenge of Putin).

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