Telling Ukraine's Story and Supporting Ukrainians Four Years After Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
In this episode, Bakhti sits down with Nate Mook, an award-winning documentarian who has led organizations providing humanitarian aid to Ukr...
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A series of conversations hosted by the United States Helsinki Commission on human rights and comprehensive security in Europe and beyond. The Helsinki Commission, formally known as the Comm...
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Coming of Age in 1968: Youth Music, Politics, and Protest Behind the Iron Curtain
The year 1968 has become synonymous with protest and upheaval around the world. On this episode of the Transatlantic, Bakhti talks with Adri...
The Dissident Playbook: Soviet Lessons for Putin's Russia
How does the Soviet Union's approach to human rights compare to contemporary Russia? Bakhti is joined by historian Benjamin Nathans to discu...
Should free speech be absolute?
Bakhti is joined by Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar focused on global expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression....
Religious Freedom as the Tip of the Spear of Comprehensive Security
Why does religious freedom matter in today's world? Ambassador Sam Brownback draws on decades of experience to explain why it is central to...
Keeping Hope Alive as a Journalist in Exile
On this week's episode, Bakhti sits down with Nastassia Rouda, director of Nasha Niva, a Belarusian media outlet operating in exile in Vilni...
What Do Americans Think About Ukraine? Views From a Bike Ride Across America
On this episode of the Transatlantic, host Bakhti Nishanov talks to Georgiy Kent, who took an unusual detour after finishing his graduate pr...
What Shapes a National Identity?
Is the United States a nation state? Does it have a national identity? On this episode of the Transatlantic, scholar Colin Woodard discusses...
The Quest to Uncover Russia's Shadow War on the West
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has also escalated a shadow war against the West. Using cyberattacks, destructi...
Negotiating with Russia: Lessons from the Cold War
For decades Western policymakers have struggled to understand the mindset of the Russian people and their leaders. This episode of The Trans...
Systems of Terror: An Inside Look at Life Under Russian Occupation
In the years since it launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has subjected thousands of Ukrainian civilians to tortuous treatme...
Welcome to the Transatlantic!
The Helsinki Commission's podcast is back! We are excited to be launching The Transaltantic, a podcast bringing you human stories across oce...
Russia Hates the Truth
Transgender journalist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, a U.S. citizen, joins host Alex Tiersky to describe her journey, first to Ukraine as a war corr...
On the Precipice
The OSCE has been central to diplomatic efforts around Russia's war against Ukraine. In this episode, Ambassador Michael Carpenter, U.S. Per...
Brothers in Arms
Since February 2022, thousands of non-Ukrainians have signed up to help defend Ukraine from Russian aggression. In this episode, two former...
Russia's Arsenal of Aggression
One particularly insidious tool in Russia's arsenal of aggression is the Kremlin's use of mercenaries, in particular against Ukraine. In thi...
Nobody Cheers for Goliath: How Ukraine Is Winning the Information War Against Russia
The physical battle of tanks and bombs or territory gained and lost is only one terrible part of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's war again...
Conflict Is Not Gender Neutral
When the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security was adopted in 2000, it marked the first time that the UN Securit...
Contending with China
The Chinese Communist Party poses major challenges to the transatlantic community's ideals of governance and human rights. In this episode,...
Russian Intention, Russian Aggression
From September 10 – 16, ZAPAD 2021—a major Russian military exercise that includes thousands of troops—will take place in and around Belarus...