{"id":1771,"date":"2024-02-14T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T14:48:08","slug":"zygar-gladstone-on-tuckers-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2024\/02\/14\/zygar-gladstone-on-tuckers-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zygar &amp; Gladstone on Tucker&#8217;s Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WNYC&#8217;s (NPR&#8217;s) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\">On the Media<\/a> has created a wonderful 17-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\/episodes\/tucker-went-russia-and-got-history-lesson\">segment examining the historical claims reiterated by Vladimir Putin<\/a> in his recent interview (\/monologue) with Tucker Carlson. The conversation between host Brooke Gladstone and Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar is well worth listening to. (I should probably specify &#8220;dissident journalist,&#8221; since &#8220;Russia&#8221; and &#8220;journalism&#8221; does not make for a persuasive combo these days. Zygar was the founding editor-in-chief of now banned Russian news channel <a href=\"https:\/\/tvrain.tv\/\">TV Rain\/Dozhd<\/a>, which continues to broadcast from abroad.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation covers only a few of the 14 &#8220;tales&#8221; or &#8220;myths&#8221; related to the historical relationship between Russia and Ukraine that Zygar describes in his recent book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/War-and-Punishment\/Mikhail-Zygar\/9781668013724\">War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia&#8217;s Invasion of Ukraine<\/a>. Zygar&#8217;s book is one of the first serious efforts by a Russian journalist <em>or<\/em> historian to begin the process of decolonizing Russian history. (And perhaps the first time U.S. public radio has compared Taras Shevchenko to African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, but it&#8217;s an apt comparison.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\/episodes\/tucker-went-russia-and-got-history-lesson\">The full radio segment can be listened to here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNYC&#8217;s (NPR&#8217;s) On the Media has created a wonderful 17-minute segment examining the historical claims reiterated by Vladimir Putin in his recent interview (\/monologue) with Tucker Carlson. The conversation between host Brooke Gladstone and Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar is well worth listening to. 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