Valerie Hopkins - Russia/Ukraine/Balkans - NYT

<p>The day the war broke out in Ukraine, Valerie Hopkins (<a href='https://twitter.com/VALERIEinNYT'>@VALERIEinNYT</a>) was in Kiev unsure of what was about to happen. Only a few months into working for The New York Times, she was at the center of the biggest story in the world. She now reports on the war as one of a dwindling number foreign correspondents in Russia, interviewing Russians who see the conflict in very different terms than the rest of the world. We also discuss her many years reporting across the Balkans.</p> <p>Countries featured: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Russia</p> <p>Publications featured: Financial Times, New York Times, The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Reuters</p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Rubix cube inventor's Lunch with the FT - <a href='https://bit.ly/3YphHeb'>https://bit.ly/3YphHeb</a></p> <p>Valerie's story about Ukrainians' Russian relatives not believing in war - <a href='http://bit.ly/3XKRKWv'>http://bit.ly/3XKRKWv</a></p> <p>Valerie on The Daily podcast on the Russian draft office - <a href='http://bit.ly/3XQwSgo'>http://bit.ly/3XQwSgo</a></p> <p>Her story Where have all the men in Moscow gone? - <a href='http://bit.ly/40aCjs5'>http://bit.ly/40aCjs5</a></p> <p>Nanna Heitmann's Instagram - <a href='https://bit.ly/3Juo6Ax'>https://bit.ly/3Juo6Ax</a></p> <p>Novaya Gazeta - <a href='http://bit.ly/40aVXnR'>http://bit.ly/40aVXnR</a></p> <p>Holod - <a href='http://bit.ly/3JqolMW'>http://bit.ly/3JqolMW</a></p> <p>Josh Yaffa's story on rape victims in Ukraine - <a href='http://bit.ly/3RiaWbB'>http://bit.ly/3RiaWbB</a></p> <p>Sigrid Schultz wikipedia - <a href='http://bit.ly/3Ha71Je'>http://bit.ly/3Ha71Je</a></p> <p>Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - <a href='https://bit.ly/3Ri0VLw'>https://bit.ly/3Ri0VLw</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Follow us on Twitter <a href='https://twitter.com/foreignpod'>@foreignpod</a> or on Facebook at <a href='https://www.facebook