The Eastern Border

Daily news digest about the war in Ukraine, this time about the letter that was leaked to Bellingcat. Didn’t trust the other English translations, made one myself. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily news update about what’s happening in the war in Ukraine. I’ll keep using Igor Girkin as a source, he probably doesn’t know that someone who speaks English even reads his stuff. I mean, hey, if the one person that I KNOW has info on Russian movements and plans on the ground then it's him, so why not make sure that all his info goes into Ukrainian hands. Support this show http://supporter.aca...

Greetings, Comrades! This time, we have a bit more in-depth ep about how it’s like on the border, how people are facing the difficulties here and a bit about the news as well. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily news from the war in Ukraine. This time, we use Igor Girkin as a source. And thankfully it hasn’t been as loud and terrible as in the previous days. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Continuing to give you the most recent and important information about the current war in Ukraine. This time, straight from the Polish-Ukrainian border Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Daily news digest about the current events in Ukraine, this time delivered from Warsaw, Poland! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily news update about what’s happened in the Russian agression towards Ukraine, please share and spread to people that you know! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! We bring you another daily news digest about the most important events, do not fall for disinformation! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! I hope this episode finds you in good health and spirit. Today we’re back with one of our analytical episodes. We are joined by Perri from The Red Line podcast and talk about Putin’s disinformation, current events and looking at what should we be watching ot in these dire times! Glory to Ukraine! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast....

Greetings, Comrades! This has been a LONG and hard day for us, I've done a lot of planning and research and everything, but here you go. The first news digest is here, more will follow - this one, like I said in the previous episode, I'm not charging Patrons for this, so don't worry. Have a great day, stay safe and glory to Ukraine! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . H...

Greetings, Comrades. A short intro about the recent events and what’s going to happen with our show now. The plan about what we’ll do when a war breaks out, is now activated. Glory to Ukraine! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our interview with the director of the first ever Latvian horror movie is here! Here’s the YouTube link where you can watch the movie for free –  https://youtu.be/VrkB6-S9d2M However, if you’d like to support the creator (and I highly recommend that you do) here’s an amazon link for the US and UK where you can buy the movie. –  https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PVNCCNZ/ref=atv_dp...

Greetings, Comrades! This might be a bit old since the news change every day and this was recorded on 14.02, however, when the time to get Russia on our news radar comes again…IF this one is truly over now, which I find doubtful, then this will definitely be informative for you. Juris is a Latvian/American journalist, one of the best we have, living in Latvia for many years now, but originally his...

Greetings, Comrades! Here's part 2 of our Soviet Deficit history, about how the USSR tried to fix the shortage issues...and failed miserably. Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This episode is all about what shortages we experienced in the Soviet Union and how 21 people died, because we lacked chewing gum. And it's actually not funny. Some of this stuff even surprised me, out of all things. Enjoy! Oh, and do consider becoming our patron at patreon.com/theeasternborder or just visit theeasternborder.lv and donate to the show! Support this show ht...

Greetings, Comrades! As we promised to Bob, here's our episode on the postal service of the USSR. This was a huge subject and we had to cut some stuff out as this was already a long episode - but it's chock full of interesting facts and stories, like a care package sent to some poor conscript in Vorkut or Khabarovsk. This episode made me realize that logistics are a nightmare and that folks who ca...

Greetings, Comrades! In this episode, we're joined by John Christmas, author of the recently released KGB Banker book and the cetral whistleblower in the famous Parex affair. We discussed corruption concerning the bank by high-standing politicians, funding Putin's regime and organised crime and what could be done about it. Enjoy! And don't forget to check out the KGB Banker! Support this show http...

Greetings, Comrades! Anete’s on vacation with her husband atm, I’ve fixed up my health but it’s still new year’s so this one was done in one take, and is my unedited actual live voice. This is about new year’s greetings, our plans for the next year…and also how winter holidays are celebrated in Russian prisons, because of course I just had to. Happy New Year! Happiness is EXTRA Mandatory! Support...

Greetings, Comrades! This episode is not very good in my mind, telling that honestly – I was in massive pain while recording, and we ended up having to abruptly end it, because it got really bad and I had to get in touch with medical personnel. However, so that the part 2 would make sense, and because I don’t know when exactly I’ll fit in a re-record, I hope that you’ll forgive me and enjoy what c...

Greetings, Comrades! We’re busy, recording episodes about Soviet everyday life, however this time, we bring you Michael from the amazing The Red Line podcast to discuss the peculiarities of post-soviet politics. It’s complicated, messy and leaves you slightly depressed with more questions than answers. Just the way we enjoy it here. We dragged out Michael and threatened him with KGB so that he’d g...

Greetings, Comrades! As the possibility of another war with Ukraine looms over us again, I dug through the weird parts of the Russian media that usually don't get covered that much in the west, especially Igor Girkin's (the ex-leader of Donbass separatists who started this whole mess back in 2014) takes on the matter, together with other, in my opinion, overlooked people and made it in a digest fo...

Greetings, Comrades!  To round up this month, I wanted to speak about something not as terrible as I have in the past few episodes, so to continue our military tech series, here's THE most famous Soviet WW2 plane of all time.  Enjoy! (I'm very happy to be able to say "enjoy" again, at the end of the episode) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast....

Greetings, Comrades! We welcome the return of the Stalin series with an episode about Holodomor, one of the first and lesser known mass acts of tyranny that Uncle Joe committed. This one...this one's dark. Extra dark. It's about the man-made famine of 1932-1933, a genocide of the Ukrainian nation. But I couldn't speak about anything else, as this...this is Holodomor rememberance month. Вічна пам'я...

This one isn't pretty and I already know that a lot of people won't like it. It's a bit of a harsh take, from a very realpolitik perspective on this matter.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! It's been a while since we've had a proper guest on my show - and this time, it's Roberto from History of Saquartvelo Georgia! I'm always happy to introduce You to others who care about our glorious side of the world, and his show's amazing. We spoke about the most bad-ass Georgian poet of all time, Galaktioni and his shenanigans with the Soviets and also had a lot of fun disc...