This section features select Nash Holos interviews with guests whose insight, experience, or creative work sheds light on Ukrainian life in Canada and around the world. These conversations offer context, perspective, and first hand accounts you won’t often hear elsewhere.
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Preserving Ukraine’s Intellectual Heritage: Dr. Oleg Kotsuba on HURI’s Work at Harvard
Read more: Preserving Ukraine’s Intellectual Heritage: Dr. Oleg Kotsuba on HURI’s Work at HarvardA conversation with Dr. Oleg Kotsuba, Director of Publications at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), on the institute’s grassroots origins, its influential publishing program, and the Ukrainian writers whose work is reshaping global understanding of Ukraine’s identity, history, and contemporary experience.
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How The Silence of Trees Took Shape: A Conversation with Ukrainian American author Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Read more: How The Silence of Trees Took Shape: A Conversation with Ukrainian American author Valya Dudycz LupescuUkrainian American author Valya Dudycz Lupescu joined me in 2011 to talk about The Silence of Trees, her debut novel rooted in wartime Ukraine, postwar displacement, and the memories and traditions carried into a new life in America. In 2026, her story resonates even more strongly.
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An Interview Recorded at the Peak of the Maidan Uprising: Mirko Petriw on Gas and Geopolitics
Read more: An Interview Recorded at the Peak of the Maidan Uprising: Mirko Petriw on Gas and GeopoliticsA 2013 conversation with Mirko Petriw examining how shale‑gas discoveries, Russian‑backed pressure campaigns, and sudden legislative crackdowns were reshaping Ukraine’s political landscape long before the full impact became clear.
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A Conversation with Sergei Loiko, Author of Aeroport, on His First‑Hand Experience at the Battle for Donetsk Airport
Read more: A Conversation with Sergei Loiko, Author of Aeroport, on His First‑Hand Experience at the Battle for Donetsk AirportA 2016 Nash Holos interview with war correspondent Sergei Loiko, reflecting on his four days inside the shattered Donetsk airport and the real events that shaped Aeroport.
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Listening Back: An Interview with Mirko Petriw — Ukraine on the Brink of War
Read more: Listening Back: An Interview with Mirko Petriw — Ukraine on the Brink of WarThis interview was recorded at the height of the Maidan uprising, in January of 2014. Just weeks later, Crimea would be annexed — a possibility unimaginable at the time of this conversation. It was a volatile time, marked by rapid and unprecedented changes that would permanently reshape Ukraine’s path forward. Listening now, it offers insights…
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Two authors chat about their books set in modern-day war-torn Ukraine
Read more: Two authors chat about their books set in modern-day war-torn UkraineIn late February 2025, shortly after the three-year mark of russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, I had the great privilege to speak on air with the authors of two remarkable books that bring home this devastating war in gripping novels that are hard to put down. Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger is an American author now living…
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“Canadian Kobzar” in conversation with Pawlina discussing Toonie Tuesday, Wild Hornets and more
Read more: “Canadian Kobzar” in conversation with Pawlina discussing Toonie Tuesday, Wild Hornets and moreIn this interview which first aired on Nash Holos in March 2025, Canadian Kobzar tells us about NAFO, the Wild Hornets, and the Toonie Tuesday fundraiser. To listen, click on the player. Transcript below. Enjoy! Pawlina: Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine is into its fourth year. Unfortunately, it has morphed into a political…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Jars Balan on Holodomor reports by Canadian journalist Rhea Clyman (Part 1)
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Jars Balan on Holodomor reports by Canadian journalist Rhea Clyman (Part 1)Rhea Clyman is a journalist who is little known today in the Jewish or Ukrainian communities, or for that matter, by Canadians in general. But in her day she reached international acclaim for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33 man-made Ukrainian famine known as the Holodomor, and the rise of Nazi Germany.…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Interview: Paulina Zelitsky Part 2
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage – Interview: Paulina Zelitsky Part 2Last week we aired the first part of an interview with Paulina Zelitsky, who published The Sea is Only Knee Deep. In this two-volume memoir she tells the fascinating story of her life growing up in the Soviet Union, working in Cuba on a Soviet naval base in the late 1960s, and her famous and…
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Ukrainian Jewish Heritage interview—Paulina Zelitsky Part 1
Read more: Ukrainian Jewish Heritage interview—Paulina Zelitsky Part 1A couple of weeks ago on Ukrainian Jewish Heritage, we aired a book review of the memoirs of a Jewish woman from Odessa. An engineer, who worked on a nuclear submarine station in Cuba during the height of The Cold War, shortly before a daring defection from the Soviet Union to Canada. Her name is…