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KennanX

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KennanX is a podcast on our never ending quest to understand Russia, Ukraine and the surrounding region. The KennanX podcast is hosted by Wilson Center Global Fellow Jill Dougherty. 

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Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya at the former Soviet nuclear test site near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, in 2015.
Podcast
History
How to Declassify National Security Secrets
August 5, 2024
Image of Vladimir Putin behind closing door
Podcast
Governance
Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin with Ivan Grek
21:19June 25, 2024
Billboard for Russian propaganda in Kyiv
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Disinformation
Influence Operations and Russia’s Vision of the Future
28:48May 7, 2024
Leningrad siege memorial
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History
Tracing the Red Thread to Russia with Ambassador John Beyrle
29:39March 4, 2024
Tinatin Khidasheli
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Democracy
Georgia's Democratic Vision with Tinatin Khidasheli
34:56December 15, 2023
People in hazmat suits clean up the site of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury
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Civil Society
Surviving a Political Poisoning with Natalia Arno
21:57September 14, 2023
Zhanna Nemtsova appears at a protest in support of Ukraine against Russian invasion in March 2022
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Education
Changing Russia’s Future with Zhanna Nemtsova
38:31July 5, 2023
Estonian Secretary General for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jonatan Vseviov surveys damage from Russian military attacks at Antonov Airport in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
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Global Alliances & Partnerships
Estonia on the Edge: A Conversation with Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov
21:00June 2, 2023
Rye bread
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Society and Culture
Russian Cuisine and Conflict with Darra Goldstein
26:16March 29, 2023
John Sullivan speaks at the 2018 Munich Security Conference
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US Foreign Policy
Is Russia Serious About Diplomacy? With Amb. John Sullivan
31:08February 6, 2023
A phone screen depicting the Youtube channel of Russian-language independent television channel TV Rain, also known as Dozhd
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Press Freedom
The Storm Over TV Rain
13:40December 15, 2022
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse speaks into a microphone
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Governance
Fighting Strategic Corruption with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
17:53November 9, 2022
A composite photo with the Russian flag in the background, and barbed wire and a television news camera in the foreground
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Press Freedom
Russia's New Expats pt. 2
16:21July 19, 2022
Foreign journalists interview Ukrainian soldiers.
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Press Freedom
Russia's New Expats
34:34June 14, 2022
Catherine Ashton
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Special Announcement + Rebroadcast: Who is Vladimir Putin?
39:35March 25, 2022
Ukraine and Toy Soldiers
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International Security
Putin’s Red Lines on Ukraine
23:50December 20, 2021
Seriouse woman placing her finger on lips - keep silence or secret. Mouth close up
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Society and Culture
Dangerous Whispers: Politics and Conspiracies in the post-Soviet Space
21:52November 3, 2021
Soldiers walking away from camera with planes overhead
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US Foreign Policy
Hindsight Up Front | Complicated Legacies: The U.S. and Russia in Afghanistan
49:04September 9, 2021
Brussels, Belgium. 21st September 2020. Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and European Parliament President David Sassoli attend a news conference.
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Democracy Promotion
A Demonstration for Dignity: A Conversation with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
31:37July 27, 2021
The Russian flag with a fingerprint transposed over the top
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Cybersecurity
Do Russia and the United States speak the same language on Cyber?
27:22July 8, 2021
US reconnaissance photo of Soviet missile site at Mariel Naval Port, Cuba, November 8, 1962
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History
Triggered: The Cuban Missile Crisis
30:42April 21, 2021
Mosaic design in blue and yellow
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Elections
Protests on the Silk Road: Analyzing Central Asia with the Oxus Society
16:59December 18, 2020
Boys and girls at Global Youth Voice - AIESEC International Congress 2012 in MGIMO, on August 18, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
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Society and Culture
The Putin Generation
23:05December 3, 2020
Peaceful protest of women in white in Belarus. August 2020.
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Civil Society
Belarus - The Ladies in White
21:08October 30, 2020
Selective text of words "politically correct"
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Society and Culture
"'You Can't Say That!' - Political Correctness, Russian-style
18:47September 15, 2020
Fake news image
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Disinformation
"Disinformation’s Threat to Democracy"
20:57August 14, 2020
George Soros at the Festival of Economics 2012
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Governance
"George Soros: The Anatomy of a Global Conspiracy Theory"
13:24July 10, 2020
CIRCA NOVEMBER 2018: a post stamp printed in the USSR shows Pioneers of Different Peoples, Globe, the series "The 40th Anniversary of All-Union Lenin Pioneer Organization", circa 1962
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Race and Ethnicity
"Yelena Khanga: On Family, Growing Up in the USSR, and Black Lives Matter"
16:37June 25, 2020
Vector image
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Cybersecurity
"Mixed Signals in the Cyber Realm"
19:52May 29, 2020
Health workers on a Moscow subway car.
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Coronavirus
"Russia's COVID Crisis"
22:14May 15, 2020
Cropped Cover of Beyond the North Wind
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Society and Culture
"Russkiy Stol: Russian Cuisine with Darra Goldstein"
21:31April 10, 2020
Two russian passports in hand. Russian official document on outdoor background
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Civil Society
"Brain Drain"
14:08March 11, 2020
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the Prague Treaty in 2010.
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Nuclear Weapons
"Nuclear Insecurity: Should New START Die?"
19:12January 21, 2020
Craig Mazin speaks at the event on the HBO miniseries Chernobyl this June.
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History
KennanX Podcast Episode 1:"Meltdown"
21:25January 9, 2020