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Since the Hamas attacks on Israel, the Ha'achim restaurant in Tel Aviv has become a community kitchen with volunteers, who prepare food parcels there, still reeling from the shock of recent events. In Ukraine, chef Ievgen Klopotenko has been proudly showcasing his country's gastronomy as an expression of culture and identity.

When Cooking Gets Political

How food is an expression of community, culture and identity in Israel and Ukraine.

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In Israel everything changed overnight on 7 October. In this episode, Tracks East looks at life in the Jewish state after the Hamas attack.

Israel: Life After Terror

In Israel everything changed overnight on 7 October. In this episode, Tracks East looks at life after the Hamas attack.

Has Russia's invasion of Ukraine plunged the world back into the Cold War? And what if Russia's attack on its neighbour was actually aimed at the United States? Jean-Michel Scherbak travels to New York for Tracks East to meet Ukrainian and Russian communities there.

USA-Russia A New Cold War?

Jean-Michel Scherbak travels to New York for Tracks East to meet Ukrainian and Russian communities there. Has Russia's invasion of Ukraine taken us back to the Cold War? 

The children of the Russian elite live out their dreams while their non-elite compatriots are sent to the front in Ukraine, invoking a well-connected parent allows them to escape mobilisation. Exiled Russian journalist Masha Borzunova sheds light on these parallel worlds.

Parallel Worlds at War

Exiled Russian journalist Masha Borzunova sheds light on the parallel world of the Russian elite's kids avoiding the war.

When war disrupts daily life, social issues often take a back seat. Tracks East meets the men and women who refuse to let armed conflict get in their way. Anna, a doctor in Kyiv, wants sexual liberation along with sexual health and Alina and Stanislava are campaigning for equal marriage.

Social Activism in Wartime

Tracks East meets the men and women who refuse to let armed conflict get in the way of social issues.

At the front, the war continues, but for Ukrainians, the process of remembering has already begun. How can the country honour its many dead while conflict endures? In this episode, Tracks East looks at the way in which men and women evoke the past and perpetuate its memory.

The Dead Don't Die: Never Forgetting

At the front, the war continues, but for Ukrainians, the process of remembering has already begun. How can the country honour its many dead while conflict endures?

Tracks East finds out how militarisation, migration, and an increasing polarisation within society are affecting the mood in Poland as elections approach.

The Polish Paradox

Tracks East finds out how militarisation, migration and an increasing polarisation within society are affecting the mood in Poland as elections approach.

Eighteen months after Russia invaded Ukraine, how is Russian civil society coping with Putin’s dictatorial drift? Tracks East investigates with journalist and debunker of fake news, Masha Borzunova.

Daily life in Putin's Russia

Eighteen months after Russia invaded Ukraine, how is Russian civil society coping with Putin’s dictatorial drift?

In September 2022 the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody set off nationwide protests in Iran. One year on from this civil unrest, Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Iranian Women Resist

Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

With the war in Ukraine, the spectre of a new food crisis is haunting Africa. Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. Ukrainian farmers working the land today are coming under Russian machine-gun fire. Finally, we head for Nairobi, where the distant war is weighing heavily on local people’s wallets.

Food: A Weapon of War

Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. 

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