Special Episode #FSVUK, Zachary Kramer: Independence has not been kind to countries in the former Soviet Union

What is political economy?  Are post-soviet countries dependent on Russia? And can Ukraine fully reorient itself to Europe without economic losses?

New episode of podcast De Facto - this time with Zachary Kramer, a PhD candidate in International Relations at Charles University's Faculty of Social Sciences, whose general research interest is the political economy of the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe.