79. VIEW FROM UKRAINE: Ivan Shmatko and Dafna Rachok on Ukrainian society, politics & identity - treatment of vulnerable groups, & divergence of Ukrainian and Russian identity, society and politics

Ivan Shmatko, PhD student at the University of Alberta, and Dafna Rachok, PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington, discuss what we can learn about Ukrainian society from Ukraine's public health services and the treatment of vulnerable groups; how Ukrainian identity, society and politics has diverged from Russia's; conditions and forced mobilisation in occupied territories; and anticipation in Ukraine of a coming counteroffensive. 

Article on Crimea referenced by Dafna in the discussion: Jen Carroll on public health in occupied Crimea 

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