A conversation with Timothy Snyder, a professor at the University of Toronto, and author of many pioneering books on the history of Eastern and Central Europe. This conversation focuses on the status of Ukraine in Europe, on the evolution of Russian foreign policy under President Vladimir Putin and the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine first in 2014 and then, on a much larger scale, in 2022.

A conversation with the historian Nicole Eaton, a professor of history at Boston College, on her new book, German Blood, Slavid Soil.

A conversation with sociologist Ekaterina V. Klimenko, affiliated scholar at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University, on the uses of medieval history in Russian politics and Russian foreign policy. Alicja Curanovic, professor at the University of Warsaw, will serve as a respondent.

A conversation with Dara Massicot, of the Carnegie Endowment, on the evolution of the Russian military after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the development of Russian strategy and the various conflicts, from Chechnya to the annexation of Crimea in 2014, that laid the foundation for Russia's decision, in 2022, to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.