The Political Periscope offers weekly interviews about politics, geopolitics, economy and more, from the perspective of the eastern flank of NATO, in the context of the war in Ukraine. The weekly podcast is created by Radio Wnet, stationed in Warsaw, Poland. The interviews are conducted by journalists of the Radio Wnet in Warsaw, Kiyv, Lviv, Beirut, Dublin, Vilnius, London, Taipei, Medellin, the Balkans and more. Our guests are mainly european politicians and experts in security and military.Radio Wnet is an independent media created in 2009 on the basis of the ideas of freedom and responsibility. From the very beginning of...
Latest episodes
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36 min
Ambassador of Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan has always been a staunch supporter of the international law
H.E. Nargiz Gurbanova the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Republic of Poland presents the official position of Azerbaijan on the r…
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24 min
"It's the first time since the interbellum that we will have all the levels of elections in Romania at the sam…
Mihai Christopher Marian Radovici, PhD student of the Bucharest University of Economics, speaks about the Generation Freedom forum in Warsaw in which he participated. He also expla…
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23 min
Stanislav Horbachevskyi: Ukrainian businesses are not competitors to Polish ones. We are partners
Stanislav Horbachevskyi, the CEO and founder of the Task Force Group, translation company, speaks about expanding a Ukrainian business to Poland, his experience with Polish market…
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29 min
Robert Lupitu: There are a lot of projects in the Three Seas Initiative. Now it's time to deliver
Robert Lupitu, editor in chief of Calea Europeana, the main EU & Transatlantic affairs media outlet in Romania comments on the Three Seas Initiative summit that took place in Bucha…
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25 min
Jana Lampe: Slovenians are a small nation with big hearts
The head of International Aid Division at Caritas Slovenia speaks about recent floods in the country, Polish and other international aid for Slovenia, Caritas' projects in Africa a…
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14 min
Boas Kragtwijk is running 2500 km from Amsterdam to Kyiv to raise money for Ukraine
Boas Kragtwijk, Dutch runner, is running a 2500 km long ultramarathon from Amsterdam to Kyiv to raise money for three ambulances. He is accomapnied by his coach Bram Vogels and pho…
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23 min
The majority of ethnic Latvians support Ukraine - Russian speakers in Latvia don't
Māris Andžāns, Ph.D. and associate professor from the Center for Geopolitical Studies Riga speaks about current political changes in Latvia - the new president, resignation of the…
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20 min
“We have this risk, we have this battle for neutrality of the Russian language version of Wikipedia”
Szymon Grabarczuk, Senior Community Relations Specialist at Wikimedia Foundation speaks about what Wikipedia really is and how it functions, how credible of a source it is, how to…
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30 min
Čedomir Stojković: In the political sense Aleksandar Vučić is the student of Moscow
Čedomir Stojković, the president of the October Group, lawyer and activist speaks about Russian influence in Serbia and how to fight it. He also explains the reality of Serbian pol…
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18 min
Shiho Rybski: I am optimistic about younger generation’s understanding of disinformation
Shiho Rybski, Director of Training and Exercises at The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats speaks about countering disinformation and the importance of fre…
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23 min
Zybertowicz: AI is like muddy water, we shouldn't jump in on the head
Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz, sociologist, expert on the AI, security advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, speaks about the potential risks of the Artifici…
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22 min
Legucka: In the long perspective Putin doesn't guarantee the stability of the regime
Prof. Agnieszka Legucka, analyst of the Polish Institute of International Affairs speaks about the recent mutiny in Russia led by Prigozhin and its implications for Putin's regime.…
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18 min
"Countries like Netherlands are circling around difficult subjects because Poland is critical for aid for Ukra…
Christiaan Paauwe, Central and Eastern Europe reporter for the Dutch public broadcaster NOS speaks about his impressions from the flooded Kherson after the blowing up of the Kakhov…
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20 min
Olchowski: Putin is more and more weak and in Russia you cannot be in charge if you are weak.
Jakub Olchowski, PhD, the head of the Eastern Europe department in the Institute of the Central Europe in Lublin talks about the different attitudes towards Russian aggression of U…
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29 min
Gen. Spalding: We have to separate clearly between totalitarian regimes and free societies for our societies t…
In this episode of the Political Periscope General Robert Spalding speaks about current geopolitical tensions involving Russia and China, the potential of escalated conflict, and t…
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30 min
Nandi Mazeingo: Germany says that at the time of their genocide against us, we were savages not protected by l…
Nandi Mazeingo, the chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation from Namibia speaks about the atrocities committed by German colonisers in the years 1904-1908 against Ovaherer…
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19 min
New Yorkers: it is the best place to live
Two gentlemen from the New York City talk about their City, why is it the best place to live but also about the current issues and concerns of the New Yorkers such as war in Ukrain…
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21 min
Žydrūnė Vitaitė: Technology is not going to create a danger for humanity but we may
Žydrūnė Vitaitė, co-funder of Women Go Tech project from Lithuania speaks about growing interest of women in tech sector, development of startups in Lithuania, digitalisation in th…
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29 min
Maria Tomak: For Russia, Crimea is a military base. For Ukraine, Crimea is a place of diversity, a window to t…
Maria Tomak, Head of the Crimea Platform Department in the Mission of the President of Ukraine in Crimea speaks about the Russian repressions against Crimean Tatars under Russian o…
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27 min
Davydiuk: Summer for Ukrainians is the summer in Crimea. We need to deoccupy it
Mykola Davydiuk PhD speaks about the actual goal of Russian missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian cities, the attitude and resilience of Ukrainian citizens, perspectives of t…