I’m Gregory Warner, host of the NPR podcast Rough Translation. I’ve reported in Ukraine on and off over the years. After the impeachment hearings put the country in a global spotlight and peace talks with Russia began, I went back to Ukraine. Ask me anything about my reporting.

Here I am, ready to answer your questions: https://i.redd.it/ofxcww75ch441.jpg

I’m looking forward to talking to you about the state of Ukraine is right now, in this unusual moment in time: When a comedian runs the country and is trying a new approach to fight corruption while a global chess match is being played out between Russia and the United States to gain Ukraine’s loyalty. Ukraine finds itself in the middle of U.S. politics as Democrats pursue impeachment against President Trump. Add also that Russian disinformation challenges Ukrainians’ own perception of themselves and their place in the world.

Here’s the latest from our recent series:

Episode 1: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780959294/ukraine-part-1-race-against-the-machine

Episode 2: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784746019/whose-ukraine-is-it-anyway

Rough Translation has won awards from the Overseas Press Club and Scripps Howard Foundation, and I am a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale. Before I joined NPR, I climbed mountains with smugglers in Pakistan for This American Life, descended into illegal mine shafts in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Marketplace's "Working" series, and dragged my accordion across Afghanistan on the trail of the "Afghan Elvis" for WNYC's Radiolab.

I'll start answering questions at 2 p.m. EST.

You can follow me on Twitter: @radiogrego

Submitted December 16, 2019 at 12:05PM by npr https://ift.tt/2svfHXW