Silicon Curtain Jonathan Fink

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk
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Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the
full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims
to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the
noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and
independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her
videos, in a clear and honest way.
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine

My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel-
https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z
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OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN:
1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22)
2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22)
3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23)
4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23)
5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23)
6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23)
7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23)
8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24)
9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24)
10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24)
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Edition No47 | 03-06-2024
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NEWS SOURCES:

KYIV INDEPENDENT
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-troop-losses-hit-record-monthly-high-in-may-ukraine-claims/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-zelensky-urges-us-to-allow-ukraine-to-strike-russia-with-atacms-missiles/
https://kyivindependent.com/we-took-out-so-many-of-them-ukraine-stabilizes-kharkiv-front-after-brutal-russian-offensive/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-12/
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-launches-large-scale-attack-on-ukraine-damage-to-critical-infrastructure-reported/
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-new-defense-minister-belousov-to-put-russias-economy-on-war-footing/

THE MOSCOW TIMES
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/31/russia-is-preparing-new-tax-hikes-heres-why-a85263
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/30/russias-soaring-wartime-salaries-are-bolstering-working-class-support-for-putin-a85273
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/01/russia-labels-wives-of-mobilized-soldiers-group-foreign-agent-a85290
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/01/russian-mercenary-prigozhins-statue-unveiled-at-his-grave-a85294

KYIV POST
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33664
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33575
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33674

NAVAYA GAZETA
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/29/pressure-from-all-directions-en
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/01/frontier-justice-en
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/30/hypersonic-paranoia-en
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/02/violent-mob-ransacks-the-head-office-of-georgias-main-opposition-party-en-news
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/02/georgias-zero-hour-en
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/28/georgian-nightmare-en

OTHER SOURCES:
https://www.ft.com/russia
https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-20/putin-in-china-russia-s-pipeline-dream-exposes-beijing-s-energy-advantage
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USEFUL LINKS:
Vatnik Soup
https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi
http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/

Real World News
https://kyivindependent.com/
https://www.kyivpost.com/
https://english.nv.ua/
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/
https://meduza.io/en
https://meduza.io/
https://novayagazeta.eu/
https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...

Analysis
https://www.ft.com/russia
https://www.economist.com/
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
https://cepa.org/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s...

YouTube Channels
/ @timesradio1
/ @khodorkovskyru
/ @popularpolitics
/ @macknack
/ @plushev
/ @tvrain
/ @fake_news
/ @feyginlive
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemysl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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What is the connection between oil, war, and climate crisis? In a long
article “Oil, climate and war: The curse of the petrostate”, Alexander
Etkind explores the tendency of authoritarian petrostates, such as
Russia and Iran, to launch wars and downplay climate change.
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SPEAKER:
Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. Alexander Etkind
was born in 1955 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a professor at CEU
Vienna. He was formerly a professor of history and the Chair of
Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute in
Florence. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law
and International Relations. Etkind's research focuses on European and
Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the
history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian
politics, novels, and film in the 21st century. His has written many
compelling books, including Russia Against Modernity, Rethinking the
Gulag and Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources. Links
will be added to the video description.
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LINKS:
Alexander Etkind on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sasha_Etkind
Alexander Etkind on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Etkind
Alexander Etkind at the Moscow Times:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/alexander-etkind-2
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BOOKS:
Russia Against Modernity (2023)
Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (2022)
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (2021)
Eros Of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis In Russia (2019)
Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern
Europe (2018)
War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2017)
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (2017)
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
(2013)
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011)
Remembering Katyn (2013)
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https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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WATCH NEXT:
Julia Tymoshenko
https://youtu.be/mLqB7ShA2l4
Anastasiya Shapochkina
https://youtu.be/AUbSEiqJk1o
Luke Harding
https://youtu.be/YRgCJ4HqIbo
Yuri Felshtinsky
https://youtu.be/_Jhj4Z32e_Q
Ian Garner
https://youtu.be/j9l4PYBD0_o
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The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB
- to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the
country was headed away from democracy. In the intervening years Putin
has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat, but for
too long the US and the world's other leading powers have continued to
appease him. Now it’s clear Putin is at the centre of a worldwide
assault on political liberty and the modern world order. But will the
Western allies mobilize too late to halt the rise of the authoritarians?

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Garry Kasparov is a Russian pro-democracy leader, global human-rights
activist, business speaker and author, and former world chess champion.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in 1963, Garry Kasparov
came to international fame at the age of 22 as the youngest world chess
champion in history in 1985. He defended his title five times, including
a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. His
famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were
key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream.
In 2005, Kasparov retired from professional chess to join the vanguard
of the Russian pro-democracy movement. In 2012, Kasparov was named
chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding
Vaclav Havel. He is now considered to be Russia's leading dissident.
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LINKS:
https://www.kasparov.com/
https://x.com/Kasparov63
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov
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BOOKS:
The World After Ukraine (2025)
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World
Must be Stopped Hardcover (2015)
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity
Begins (2018)
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ARTICLES:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-arrests-former-world-chess-32669346

https://www.politico.eu/article/chess-garry-kasparov-russia-extremist-list-honor/

https://rdi.org/articles/garry-kasparov-the-real-reason-putin-killed-navalny/

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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Galina Ackerman is Editor in Chief at Desk Russia, and is a French
writer, historian, journalist, translator, and researcher at the
University of Caen, specializing in Ukraine and Post-Soviet states. She
was also a translator for the Russian journalist murdered by the Putin
regime, Anna Politkovskaya. Galia was born into a Russian Jewish family
and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Paris
Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 1998, Galia translated into French 'Chernobyl
Prayer' by Svetlana Alexievich, a book about the Chernobyl disaster.
While working on the translation, she travelled to the poisoned
territories called the 'Zone' (short for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone) and
interviewed local people who had witnessed the nuclear catastrophe at
first hand.
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LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galia_Ackerman
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galia_Ackerman
https://x.com/GaliaAckerman
https://x.com/DeskRussie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/galina-ackerman-8305b790/
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BOOKS:
L'Ukraine: Atlas géopolitique d'une idée européenne
Edizione Francese | di Philippe Lemarchand, Galina Ackerman, e al.
(2023)
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ARTICLES:
https://desk-russie.eu/auteur/galia-ackerman
https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/23/giorgi-gakharia-this-law-serves-russian-interests.html
https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/12/comrade-putins-sexennial-plan.html
https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/10/the-quarrels-of-the-russian-opposition.html
https://desk-russie.info/2024/04/22/the-russian-state-in-the-face-of-terrorism.html
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative, is that Ukraine is
not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case. But Ukraine is
not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. As a nation, it is old,
different, and diverse. Just as it went unrecognised by Russia, it has
not been understood or recognised by the outside world either, for a
variety of reasons. 100 years ago, few noticed its disappearance as an
independent state; but that has now changed. Putin’s tyranny and
violence have accelerated the evolution of Ukrainian identity and
increased the pressure for social, political, and economic change.
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Lubomyr Luciuk is a Canadian academic and author of books and articles
in the field of political geography and Ukrainian history. He is
currently a full professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and a
Senior Research Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the
University of Toronto. In 2010, Luciuk was one of 16 recipients of the
Shevchenko Medal of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in recognition of
his educational, research and advocacy efforts on behalf of the
Ukrainian Canadian community. On 6 December 2019 he received the Cross
of Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian Presidential Award, presented in Kingston by
His Excellency, Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada. More
recently he was declared a persona non grata by the RU Federation.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubomyr_Luciuk
https://www.writersunion.ca/member/lubomyr-luciuk
https://cius40.artsrn.ualberta.ca/8-2/round-table-iii-ukrainian-canadian-studies/lubomyr-luciuk-reflections-interdisciplinary-nature-ukrainian-studies-canada/
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BOOKS:
Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian
Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives
In fear of the barbed wire fence: Canada's first national internment
operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920
Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada, and the
Migration of Memory
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ARTICLES:
https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/610
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/center-for-strategic-communications-campaign-against-lubomyr-luciuks-book-is-attack-on-ukrainian-history-and-academic-freedom/
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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being made available