Audio / The Kyiv Independent's Deputy Chief Editor Toma Istomina talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about being...

Audio / The Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about her reaction to...

Audio / Linguist Yuri Shevchuk discusses the pronunciation of the Ukrainian capital and the political significance of speaking Ukrainian.

Audio / Olena Martynyuk was seven months pregnant and living in the U.S. when Russia invaded Ukraine. Her parents are in Ukraine and...

Audio / Peter Zalmayev evacuated his wife and two small children to Western Ukraine and traveled back toward Kyiv to report on the war.

Audio / After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian scholar Antonina Berezovenko stayed in Kyiv in spite of the constant shelling.

Audio / Mariya Chukhnova immigrated to the U.S. and watched Ukraine’s transformation, and now the war, from afar.

Audio / On his scheduled wedding day, Serhii Tereshchenko evacuated to Lviv with his fiancée and her sister.

Audio / A new podcast about members of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University community whose lives have been upended by Russia's...

Audio / An interview with Kimberly Marten about her research on climate change in the Russian Arctic.

Audio / An interview Freedom House researchers Nate Schenkkan and Isabel Linzer about their report on transnational repression. Photo by...

Audio / An interview with anti-corruption investigator Thomas Mayne about kleptocracy and what it means for democracies all over the world.

Audio / An interview with Alexis Lerner about her scholarship on authoritarianism and dissent in Russia, particularly in the context of...

Audio / An interview with Navalny's former colleague and friend Matthew Murray—a corruption and rule of law expert. Listen at Eurasianet....

Audio / An Azerbaijani gay man awaits asylum as the Trump Administration attempts to dismantle the asylum system. Listen on NPR.

Audio / The story of Liam, a young gay man from Azerbaijan seeking U.S. asylum while the Trump administration attempts to dismantle the...

Audio / A personal narrative about the passage of time. Listen at TheInterrupted.Life. Edited by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.

Audio / A Russian LGBTQI activist loses everything. Listen at TheInterrupted.Life. Edited by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.

Audio / Behind the viral moment that defined the 2020 Iowa Caucuses. Listen at TheInterrupted.Life. Ed. by Daniel Alarcón and Heba Elorbany.

Article/ I report on the pros and cons of a plan intended to modernize New York City's freight distribution system.