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Reportercast July 2023 with Valeriya Melnichuk, strategic advisor for Ukraine
Valeriya Melnichuk is a former BBC Monitoring journalist who has worked in the public relations department at the Ukrainian finance ministry during the intense period of the nationalization of PrivatBank and liquidation of numerous other smaller lenders which had been fraudulent or corrupt. Her boss at the time was finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk, who Reportercast…
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Reportercast June 2022: Jamison Firestone on Russia sanctions
In this first episode, our guest is Jamison Firestone, a legendary lawyer and campaigner among Russia-watchers. He discusses his experience of living in Moscow in the 90s, then being driven out after his friend and colleague Sergei Magnitsky was killed for discovering a massive state-enabled corruption scheme. Jamison played a top role in the ensuing…