Oksana Huss and Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez talk about the war in Ukraine through the lenses of corruption

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Oksana Huss, a postdoctoral research fellow within the BIT-ACT project, and Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez, associate professor and specialist in anti-corruption studies at Osaka University, were invited by the  KickBack - The Anti-Corruption Podcast to discuss the unfolding events in Ukraine through the lenses of corruption.

The guests discussed the new wave of authoritarianism exporting corruption to liberal democracies and also possible forms of strategic corruption and the financial influence of Russia on Europe. 

They agreed that anti-corruption policies have to be focused on the transnational networks in a first-line, not only in developing countries.

Using her own background of anti-corruption in Ukraine, Huss also gave an overall view on Ukraine’s revolutions, decentralization reform, and challenges faced by the country.

You can listen to Huss and Pozsgai-Alvarez on the 70th episode of the KickBack - Global AntiCorruption Podcast. 

The podcast features in-depth interviews with a wide range of corruption experts. The guests so far have included Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, world-leading corruption scholars, chief Economists of Development Banks, former FBI agents, creative and passionate anti-corruption practitioners, high-ranking corruption investigators, and the first United Nations whistleblower.

The BIT-ACT project's principal investigator Alice Mattoni and its research fellows Fernanda Odilla and Anwesha Chakraborty also have been invited to talk about corruption in previous episodes of the podcast. 

The KickBackGAP is a podcast project by Nils Köbis, Christopher Starke, Matthew Stephenson & Jonathan Kleinpass. It can be accessed via Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, or Itunes.