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The Eastern Border
Presentation
Hosted byKristaps Andrejsons
GenreHistory, News
LanguageEnglish
Publication
Original releaseJune 27, 2015 (2015-06-27)
ProviderAcast
Related
Websitehttps://theeasternborder.lv/

The Eastern Border is a podcast about the politics and history of Eastern Europe, especially about life and culture in the Soviet Union. It focuses on how the USSR influenced its former constituents and the legacy it left behind, as well as news and current affairs in the region.

It is hosted by Latvian historian, philosopher, journalist and podcaster Kristaps Andrejsons who grew up during, and immediately after the fall of, the Soviet Union and who can not only fall back on the sources, but on personal memory and interviews with those who lived under the regime.

While there have always been episodes devoted to news and current affairs mixed in with the history episodes, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 the podcast changed from history to being devoted exclusively to news and backgrounds of the war. He has also made several trips to Ukraine to report from there. Necessitated by these events, the frequency of episodes has increased.

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Kristaps Andrejsons (born August 8, 1989, in Riga, Latvia) was born in what was then the Latvian SSR. He holds a Master's degree in Western philosophy from the University of Latvia and is a journalist[1] as well as a podcaster.

He has contributed to Foreign Policy magazine in the run-up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on the dangers faced by the Baltic countries[2] due to increased Russian agression, the cultural, historical, and religious underpinnings of the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv[3] And Russian president Putin's distorted views on Russian history[4].

During the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war he has contributed to various other podcasts, such as The Telegraph's podcast 'Ukraine: The latest' [5][6], a collaboration with one of the hosts of Ukraine Without Hype[7] and The Political Orphanage [8].

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Kristaps Andrejsons and Governor Vitalii Kim of Mykolaiv

Since February 2022 the podcast exclusively deals with updates from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The length and frequency of these episodes are more varied than regular episodes, dictated by the events of the Russo-Ukrainian war, but on average they appear 3-4 times a week.

Andrejsons has made several trips to Ukraine to report on the conflict. In ... 2022 he traveled to the recently-liberated areas north of Kyiv. ...

In September he visited Mykolaiv, together with fellow podcaster Anthony Bartaway, where they conducted interviews with among others the governor Vitalii Kim and commander of the Belarusian Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment fighting in Ukraine, Denis "Kit" Prokhorov[9], as well as visiting Ukrainian villages close to the front line and speaking with the soldiers who were fighting there.

Episodes

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Some subjects are standalone, others are too long for single episodes and are split into multiple episodes with varying numbers of episodes.

Most episodes have a duration of between thirty minutes and two hours and the publishing schedule is roughly every two weeks, however based on current events updates may happen more frequently.

Notable sub-series[to be included in episode list with colours, MK]

 
 

Ukraine (2019)
Russian Alaska (2020)

Episodes
# Published Length Theme Title Details
0 27 June 2015 7:34 Introduction
1 8 July 2016 1:01:34 The Beginning of the End
2 29 July 2015 52:25 The Soviet Army
3 10 August 2015 45:14 Soviet Culture 101
4 18 September 2015 1:07:23 Brezhnev in Spring
5 22 November 2015 1:01:37 The Afghanistan War
6 5 December 2015 35:50 The Olympic Burger
7 23 December 2015 40:38 Soviet Christmas Special
8 12 January 2016 53:35 Very Old Men Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko
9 31 January 2016 43:58 Gorbachev Gorby P1 Mikhail Gorbachev
10 29 February 2016 1:03:14 Chernobyl
11 20 March 2016 54:14 Gorbachev Still Gorby Mikhail Gorbachev
12 9 April 2016 44:47 The Red Space Race
13 1 May 2016 47:16 years 1988
14 19 May 2016 1:08:29 Love Thy Big Brother
15 30 May 2016 1:23:08 Childhood [Not for Children]
16 4 June 2016 1:08:56 Eastern Border on Fire! interview with Daniele Bolelli from History on Fire and The Drunken Taoist
17 23 June 2016 1:12:23 years Curtain in Tatters the year 1989 in the eastern bloc
18 30 June 2016 1:25:05 Putin is dead?! anniversary episode; investigation of a conspiracy theory
19 23 July 2016 44:43 Soviet Gladiators
20 12 August 2016 1:13:05 Happily ever after
21 21 August 2016 1:28:36 Lies, Big Lies and InterFax the Vilnius massacre and Russian propagandists
22 18 September 2016 1:05:28 Let's Talk about Texts
23 24 September 2016 1:12:56 Per spiritus ad astra
24 30 September 2016 1:02:13 Vor v Zakonye
25 11 October 2016 1:11:47 Punishment Punishment Part 1
26 19 October 2016 1:02:19 Punishment Punishment, Part2
27 31 October 2016 1:15:57 Punishment Punishment, part 3. Exile
28 10 November 2016 1:01:40 Curonians
29 21 November 2016 1:07:38 Death and Ideas
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35 26 November 2016 27:56 A Russian Diary - Prologue taster of a reading of A. Politkovskaya's "A Russian Diary"
36 28 November 2016 1:56:37 Telling "how it is" interview with Stephanie Ellaine Hunt
37 1 December 2016 46:11 Punishment The GULAG within me
38 11 December 2016 58:02 Interview with Johan Andersson lead designer of Paradox
39 16 December 2016 38:00 All In a threat has been made to Kristaps' life
40 9 January 2017 1:15:03 Red Dawn 1 - Meet the Ulyanovs
41 19 January 2017 1:46:40 Red Dawn 2 - 1905
42 28 January 2017 1:11:13 Red Dawn 3 - Lenin Gets Dangerous
43 4 February 2017 1:46:02 PDRP - Canada
44 9 February 2017 46:40 Welcome to Donetsk! a report about what it’s like to live in the Russian controlled territories in eastern Ukraine
45 17 February 2017 50:39 Red Dawn 4 - Nicky is no more
46 25 February 2017 1:12:02 Red Dawn 5 - The dawn has come
47 8 March 2017 56:36 International Women's Day. In space.
48 19 March 2017 1:21:35 Red Dawn 6 - Chaos Undivided
49 29 March 2017 1:31:53 Super-Lysenko! With old logo and everything!
50 7 April 2017 25:48 Russian responses to Syrian strikes. By popular demand.
51 10 April 2017 1:09:04 Red Dawn 7 - Livonia
52 17 April 2017 43:52 Law and Order. Kinda.
53 27 April 2017 1:06:03 Red Dawn 8 - Intermarium
54 8 May 2017 1:02:24 Reservation for Two with Andrew James Cotter from Iroquois History and Legends Podcast
55 12 May 2017 1:10:47 The Greatest - interview with Dan Carlin
56 25 May 2017 1:16:00 Red Dawn 9 - NEPman Stalin
57 31 May 2017 59:24 Red Dawn Finale - Lenin Eternal
58 11 June 2017 58:08 Man of Steel 1 - Stalin 101
59 18 June 2017 55:23 Propaganda, Vol.2 - The Revenge
60 28 June 2017 39:01 Man of Steel 2 - Stalin and Special anniversary episode
61 8 July 2017 1:02:31 Man of Steel 3 - Ask Uncle Joe
62 25 July 2017 53:15 Eastern European News - Volume 1
63 6 August 2017 1:35:33 Man of Steel 4 - Stalin vs Tito
64 22 Augusts 2017 39:40 Man of Steel Stalin '05
65 27 August 2017 1:11:20 Man of Steel 6 - Tblisi Heist
66 6 September 20217 1:03:54 SovConomics Part 1
67 14 September 2017 48:18 SovConomics 2 - There's no money but, you guys, hold on!
68 30 September 2017 50:56 Man of Steel 7 - Sad Stalin, No Liberty
69 13 August 2017 2:39:12 PDRP - Time Cube Logic ideologies and religions with David Sheally
70 21 October 2017 1:26:44 The Old Believers
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Extra Episodes

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Mixed with the regular history-, culture- or current affairs-focused episodes a number of extras have been published. Usually these entail interviews or collaborations with academics, authors and podcasters about loosely (but not always) related topics

Extra episodes
Date Length Title Details
14 February 2016 1:13:19 Astonishing Legends of The Eastern Border a conversation with Scott and Forrest from the Astonishing Legends podcast
21 March 2016 54:39 Strange Chernobyl in collaboration with the Strange Matters podcast
2 April 2016 25:34 Surprise Episode! - The Power of Rock'n'Roll the Eastern Border gets taken over by Glen and Daniel from The Lesser Bonapartes
31 May 2016 1:12:00 Lesser Bonapartes? More like Greater Bolsheviks! Kristaps is introduced as co-host of The Lesser Bonapartes
3 July 2016 2:02:23 Preview of PDRP, our spin-off show just launched: People's Democratic Republic of Podcast
9 July 2016 3:37:52 Surprise Episode 2 - The Northern Crusade from The Lesser Bonapartes, about the Baltic/Northern Crusade
14 July 2016 3:16:11 Who are "us"? with Darryl Cooper from Martyr Made
28 August 2016 2:02:07 Wide-eyed cynics Glen from the Lesser Bonapartes podcast, meets Prof CJ from the Dangerous History Podcast
21 December 2016 1:04:44 Christmas Extra: Dark Mythsmas to you all! a tipsy parody of QI, with Twilight Histories, Astonishing Legends, Rumor Flies and Blurry Photos
14 July 2017 49:49 Extra: Vanga with Strange Matters
31 July 2017 2:52 PSA: Video Episode invitation to watch the video of a Soviet car festival and a Latvian tank museum
11 October 20217 1:04:37 Extra: STASI vs KGB back from holiday in Berlin with East German intelligence
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Guests and podcast connections

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Various guests and fellow podcasters have appeared on The Eastern Border. Kristaps Andrejsons has appeared in other podcasts:

  • Astonishing Legends
  • Strange Matters
  • Lesser Bonapartes
  • Daniele Bolelli from History on Fire and The Drunken Taoist
  • People's Democratic Republic of Podcast - spin-off which takes a look at parliaments and political systems of countries around the world
  • Darryl Cooper from Martyr Made
  • Prof CJ from the Dangerous History Podcast
  • Dan Carlin
  • Dark Myths
  • Ukraine: The Latest[10]
  • Twilight Histories
  • Astonishing Legends
  • Rumor Flies
  • Blurry Photos
  • Andrew Heaton from The Political Orphanage
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References

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  1. ^ "Kristaps Andrejsons author page". TVNET.
  2. ^ Andrejsons, Kristaps (January 11, 2022). "Baltic Citizens Worry They're Next on Russia's Menu". Foreign Policy.
  3. ^ Andrejsons, Kristaps (February 6, 2022). "Russia and Ukraine Are Trapped in Medieval Myths". Foreign Policy.
  4. ^ Andrejsons, Kristaps (February 22, 2022). "Putin's Speech Laid Out a Dark Vision of Russian History". Foreign Policy.
  5. ^ "'Ukraine: The latest'". The Telegraph.
  6. ^ "'Ukraine: the latest". The Telegraph. September 30, 2022.
  7. ^ "Ukraine Without Hype". Ukraine Without Hype. October 3, 2022.
  8. ^ "Russia's Sham Referendums in Ukraine". The Political Orphanage. October 5, 2022.
  9. ^ Andrejsons, Kristaps (October 4, 2022). "Baltkrievu pulka komandieris Ukrainā: Vispirms uzvarēt Ukrainā, pēc tam - gāzt Lukašenko". Klik TVNET.
  10. ^ "Fighting continues around Zaporizhzhia, how drones have changed warfare, & the view from Latvia". The Telegraph. September 1, 2022.
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