Guests: Elana Resnick and Viktor Pal on waste, recycling, reuse, and race in (post-)Communist Eastern Europe.
Guests: Ilya Budraitskis, Svetlana Erpyleva, and Greg Yudin on Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition, and the prospects of political pluralism in Russian society.
Guest: Karl Qualls on Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.
Guests: Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska on zoos, non-humans, and Animal Studies in Eastern Europe and Russia
Guest: David France on his film Welcome To Chechnya.
Guest:
Evgenia Kovda is a Brooklyn-based Russian filmmaker from Moscow currently pursuing MFA in Integrated Media arts at Hunter College in New York. “Girlfriends” is her first narrative short film.
Music:
Bauhaus, “Slice of Life,” Burning from the Inside, 1983.
Girlfriends (Podrugi) from Evgenia Kovda on Vimeo.
