'A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Cases of Vodka' - Lev Golinkin reports from the fringes of PR

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Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Interview with Lev Golinkin

 Today’s guest, Lev Golinkin is the author of the recently-released A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, a memoir of Soviet Ukraine, which he left as a child refugee. See New York Times review: "Fleeing Ukraine With Little More Than Wit."
 
    Golinkin just wrote the piece "The Humanitarian Crisis in Eastern Ukraine Demands Attention," which states: "According to the latest, and admittedly conservative, UN estimates, the conflict in the southeastern Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) has resulted in over 5,000 deaths and 1.5 million refugees. For the forgotten 5.2 million who remain in Donbass, life since April 2014 has been a deadly kaleidoscope of warlords and armies, foreign fighters, shifting allegiances, morphing front lines, and indiscriminate carnage. ... Kiev continues to add layers to its blockade, making it nearly impossible for food and medicine to reach the 3 million civilians in rebel-controlled areas of Donbass..."

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