We continue our series on the war in Ukraine. In this episode Vlado and I talk to journalist and anthropologist Alisa Sopova about what everyday life feels like in Ukraine as the war passes the 100 day mark. We discuss the regional differences in how the conflict is perceived, we ask whether Ukrainians have different views about Russian politicians and ordinary Russians, and we also talk about how Ukrainians perceive assistance from the west.
Alisa Sopova is an independent journalist from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. She worked as a journalist and a news editor for the largest local newspaper, Donbass. When the war broke out, she was faced with the challenge of reporting on violence in her own city. With the local journalism collapsing, she began working for international media, including The New York Times and Time magazine where her coverage focused on the war and its humanitarian impact. Alisa is an author and co-founder of a #5Kfromthefrontline project (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/5kfromthefrontline/) that aims to bring to light everyday experiences of civilian life at the frontlines. Alisa holds a BA in journalism from Moscow State University and an MA in Regional Studies from Harvard University. She is currently working on a doctorate in anthropology at Princeton.
Links to some of Alisa's pieces:
The Case for a UBI: A Conversation with Scott Santens
Breaking Things at Work: A Conversation with Gavin Mueller
The Value of Idleness: A Conversation with Brian O’Connor
Meaningful Work: A Conversation with Andrea Veltman
Making Light Work - A Conversation with David Spencer
Breaking up the United States: A Conversation with Chris Zurn
Regulating Virtual Reality: A Conversation with J Hughes and Alec Stubbs
Reading Between The Lines in Russia and Ukraine: A Conversation with Ambassador Vesko Garcevic
Making Russia Great Again?
Empires Strike Back - Did the “Balance of Power” Just Make a Comeback?: A Conversation with Vladimir Petrovic
School Integrations and Equal Education: A Conversation with Larry Blum
Harvard‘s Galileo Project: A Conversation with Avi Loeb
Institutional Corruption and Psychiatric Drugs: A Conversation with Lisa Cosgrove
My Favorite Passage: A conversation with Adam Beresford about Iliad, Book 24
A Three-Way Peace Deal in the Middle East: A Conversation with Ehud Eiran
Civic Dialogue in a Polarized Society: A Conversation With Lauren Barthold
Monuments, Racism and The Ethics of Public Memory: A Conversation with Dana Miranda
The Rise of Robot Overlords? A Conversation with Dan Feldman
Thucydides and the Plague: A Conversation with Greg Fried
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