NM Special Report: Kyiv Update (Feb 8) w/ Anastasiya Osipova

Anastasiya Osipova, a scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-founder of Cicada Press, speaks with NM from Kyiv, sharing her first-person insights on the Ukrainian/Russian border conflict as well as what the prospect of war does to one’s ability to communicate clearly, and how that shift impacts a society over time. Recorded in 2 parts: Jan 29 / Feb 8 FOR MORE: • Cicada Press https://www.cicadapress.net/titles/ 

 • Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2021) 
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/serhii-plokhy/the-gates-of-europe/9781541675643/ Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation (Basic Books, 2017) https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/serhii-plokhy/lost-kingdom/9780465098491/ • Shaun Walker 
The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (Oxford, 2018)
 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-long-hangover-9780190058845 • Stanislav Aseyv In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard, forthcoming)
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674268784 LA Review of Books intwv/ regarding Aseyv's imprisonment in the Izolyatsia concentration camp https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/violence-and-hope-in-ukraine-stanislav-aseyevs-the-torture-camp-on-paradise-street/ 

 • notes on the right-wing and neo-nazi attacks on Ukrainian cultural venues 
https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/armed_dangerous/armed_dangerous-disrupt/ • roundtable w/ artist Nikita Kadan regarding Ukraine’s legacy of Soviet art https://www.pastfutureart.org/en/discussion-the-kmytiv-experiment • architect/artist Oleksandr Burlaka 
http://cargocollective.com/burlaka/bio https://www.instagram.com/maidan_nezalezhnosti • writer Yevgenia Belorusets 
https://www.ndbooks.com/author/yevgenia-belorusets/ https://www.isolarii.com/ https://belorusets.com/info/about • Ilya Budraitskis 
 Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia(Verso, 2022) https://www.versobooks.com/books/3881-dissidents-among-dissidents • Babi Yar https://babynyar.org/en