Olga Rudenko

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218 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Apr

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

So Zelensky doesn't have a choice that Trump, I think, thinks that he has.

Well, so by the end of 2021, I had been working in this newspaper in Kiev called Kiev Post for 10 years at the time.

And I was at the time deputy chief editor.

And it was a place that was pretty different from Kiev.

many other Ukrainian media outlets in the sense that it had enjoyed editorial independence kind of against the odds, because it was not profitable.

It was getting some money from its owner every month.

But at the same time, the chief editor at the time managed to maintain the editorial independence of the newsroom.

And that's not something that you take for granted when you work in Ukrainian media, because

If you are in a paper that is being subsidized by the owner, then usually it means that the owner dictates what to write.

And by dictates, I mean pretty directly.

And it was not the case with The Cave Post, and we were really enjoying this privileged position of being independent.

And then at the end of 2021, near the end of 2021, that started changing.

Well, because a few years before that, the paper changed owners and the new owner went along with the rules for a few years and maintained the independence of the newspaper.

And then I think his patience ran out because he kept getting phone calls from people very high up.

And the calls would be about the critical coverage of the paper.

And I don't think he was, in his core, you know, a big fan of independent journalism.

I don't think he bought into it because he believed in independent press.

And his patience ran out, and he started putting pressure on the newsroom to tone down the critical coverage and to make some changes that the newsroom was opposed to.

Not just the chief editor, who was the main defender of data independence, but actually the whole newsroom was opposed to it.

And then the owner, I think his patience ran out completely.

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