Ukraine entered the mid-1990s with new leadership and big decisions to make. In this episode, Dad explores the country’s second presidential election and peaceful transfer of power, the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, theintroduction of the hryvnia, and the adoption of Ukraine’s first modern constitution. We’ll see oligarchs tighten their grip, Crimea’s autonomy challenged, and President Leonid Kuchma try to balance Ukraine between Russia and the West — all while ordinary people navigated poverty, corruption, and glimpses of a new cultural identity.

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