Talk Eastern Europe – Episode 6

Metropalitan Epiphonius at the signing of the Tomos for an autocephelous Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Photo (CC) The Presidential Administration of Ukraine

In this episode, Adam Reichardt sits down with Harvard University’s George Soroka to discuss the political, geopolitical and also spiritual implications of the granting of Autocephaly to the newly created Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

George Soroka is a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where he is also affiliated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Resources:

“A house divided. Orthodoxy in post-Maidan Ukraine” by George Soroka. Published in New Eastern Europe issue 3-4/2019

“Poroshenko has achieved a second independence from Russia” by Taras Kuzio. New Eastern Europe 15 October 2018

Ongoing coverage of Ukraine’s presidential election:  https://neweasterneurope.eu/category/ukraine-elections-2019/

Music featured in the podcast:

Opening theme: Sum of My Fears by Dazie Mae:  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dazie_Mae/Last_Jazz_in_Paris/03-1518107-Dazie_Mae-Sum_of_My_Fears

Liturgy of the Faithful / Ukrainian Orthodox chant

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