Dear listeners, Hello and welcome to the 27th episode of ‘The Ink Well’ podcast. Our today’s guest is a historian, polyglot and freelance writer, Artemii Migavchik. As a historian, Artemi wrote a thesis about Stalinist repressions in the Soviet Union. As a polyglot, he speaks Ukrainian, Russian, German, and Dutch and now he is also learning Lithuanian. As a writer, he writes about the contemporary realities in Russia, Ukraine and the EU. Join our today’s conversation and listen to our discussion about the Ukrainian language, Kievan Rus’ and the reasons behind the Russo-Ukrainian war from both the Western and Russian points of view. If you found our conversation interesting, please support the podcast by subscribing to it on your favourite podcast-listening platform or leaving a short comment or a review. This helps the project greatly, as it influences the algorithms to put the content out in front of more people. Thank you. ▶️ Video version on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/bdf9fhp7 🌐 My contacts: https://linktr.ee/pauliusjuodis