https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/969e598d-c88d-4816-8096-4de63e337592 All things having to do with Russia are seen in the West through a renewed Cold War prism, with simplistic portrayals more befitting a Hollywood villain. Western media has been in a panic about an impending Russian invasion of Ukraine, while they celebrated a countrywide uprising in Kazakhstan that after a few days was put down. So what's really happening? Is it all right-wing color revolutions provoked by the West? Local anger manipulated by elites? Perhaps a bit of both? What are the local dynamics at play? To discuss, Rania Khalek was joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies at Free University Berlin. TIME CODES: 0:00 Intro 1:37 Is there really a threat of Russia invading Ukraine? 14:02 What was behind the protests in Kazakhstan? 25:09 Ukraine’s Euromaidan benefited neoliberalism & empowered the nationalist far right 36:56 Impact of Western-funded civil society & NGOs 45:37 The mainstream erasure of millions of pro-Russia Ukrainians 54:56 Were the protests in Belarus another Maidan event? 58:04 Crisis of capitalism, spontaneous upheavals & hijacking protests 1:04:34 Ukrainian far right and neo-Nazis 1:13:56 Solving the conflict in Ukraine Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:32:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/969e598d-c88d-4816-8096-4de63e337592 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.