Wednesday, July 1, 2020Episode 44: Scenarios for future relations with Russia
In this episode Maciek catches up with Andrey Makarychev, a visiting professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of...
Monday, June 29, 2020Polish and German views on Ukraine and the conflict in Donbas
Originally live streamed on 23 June 2020 This is the third debate in the framework of the project titled “Ost/Wschód: German-Polish Debates on the Eas...
Sunday, June 21, 2020Episode 43: Prologue to POSTWEST (Live)
Welcome to a special live edition of the Talk Eastern Europe podcast as we prepare for the launch of transcultural festival POSTWEST. This live chat w...
Thursday, June 18, 2020Episode 42: “POSTCAST” Part II: Gertrude Street Theatre
This is the second part of the special series dedicated to the POSTWEST transcultural festival. In this episode, Adam catches up with Maija Pavlova a ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020Episode 41: “POSTCAST” Part I: DAKH Center for Contemporary Art
In this special episode, Talk Eastern Europe revisits the transcultural festival POSTWEST – which was scheduled to take place at the end of May 2020. ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020Episode 40: Will COVID-19 bring a new world order?
Our experience with the coronavirus demonstrates that pandemics know no borders. Nearly every country has been affected. The economic crisis that cont...
Monday, June 8, 2020Belarus: The ambiguous neighbour of the EU? Online debate
This debate was live streamed on Facebook and YouTube and republished here as a podcast. This is the second debate organized in the framework of the p...
Monday, June 1, 2020Episode 39: COVID clampdown in Chechnya
Information coming out of Chechnya is hard to come by. It is controlled by the tight grip of the Republic’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov. This episode attemp...
Sunday, May 24, 2020Episode 38: China’s unlikely interest in Lithuania
For the last several years China has viewed the region of Central and Eastern Europe as an opportunity to gain a foothold in the European Union and in...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020Debate: What are Polish / German views on the East?
This debate took place live online an May 13 2020. The debate examines how Poland and Germany view the region of Eastern Europe. Both countries have a...
Friday, May 15, 2020Episode 37: Update on Armenia
It has been two years since Nikol Pashinyan has come to power after the Velvet Revolution in Armenia. In this episode Adam catches up with Richard Gir...
Friday, May 8, 2020Episode 36: Complicated neighbours. Romania-Moldova relations in the spotlight
Developments in relations between Romanian and Moldova have raised a lot eyebrows lately. After Moldova’s pro-European government has fallen to be rep...