Generation Putin - Hour Special

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Length: 59:01

"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too. Read the full description.

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Playing: Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist

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It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras.

Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. Embed, stream and share the special and segments on SoundCloud.

Playing: Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist

Putin_logo_square-1_small

It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras.

Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. Embed, stream and share the special and segments on SoundCloud.

Playing: Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist

Putin_logo_square-1_small

It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras.

Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. Embed, stream and share the special and segments on SoundCloud.

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Piece Description

It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras.

Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. Embed, stream and share the special and segments on SoundCloud.

Transcript

PROMO 1

BROOKE: Young people are shaking things up in the post-Soviet world. Their tactics might surprise you.

INNA: We just thought that ok, if you want to look at me then look at me. I’m naked, as you like.

BROOKE: Meet the topless protestors of Ukraine, and see a new side of the former USSR.

Join me, Brooke Gladstone, for Generation Putin, from the Seattle Globalist and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.

PROMO 2

Dissent can be dangerous in Kazakhstan, even for a punk rocker in the big city.

RUSLAN: They got the Internet watched, and the telephones. They’re watching us everywhere.

Protest, paranoia and punk rock.

I’m Brooke Gladstone. Join me for Generation Putin, from the Seattle Globalist and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange.

PROMO 3

Russian President Vladimir Putin is larger than life.

VASSILI: He was basically showering me with gifts. And I was creeped out and kind of at...
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Timing and Cues

LENGTH * Section * END TIME
0:59:00 Billboard 0:59:00
3:00:00 Newscast 1 (Silence) 3:59:00
2:00:00 Newscast 2 (Silence) 5:59:00
12:59:00 Segment A: 18:58:00
0:59:00 Break 19:57:00
14:45:00 Segment B: 34:42:00
0:59:00 Break 35:41:00
22:56:00 Segment C: 58:37:00
0:23:00 Music Bed ("Free Pussy Riot, F** Mitt Romney" - The Tempers) 59:00:00

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

See transcript.

OUTRO:

See transcript.

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Year	Length
Fiction	The XX	Coexist.	Young Turks	2012	00:19
Darkest Child	Kevin MacLeod	Royalty Free.	Royalty Free	2011	00:30
Heads Will Roll	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	It's Blitz!.	Interscope Records	2009	01:00
Ghost Processional	Kevin MacLeod	Royalty Free.	Royalty Free	2005	00:19
C.R.E.A.M. (Instrumental)	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).	Loud Records	1994	00:41
Requiem/???????	Takezhan	Single.	KPlus TV	2012	00:40
Cue 4	Morgan Dusatko	Barzan.	The Last Quest	2012	00:30
Parisian	Kevin MacLeod	Royalty Free.	Royalty Free	2007	00:41
Coda: Allegro molto vivace	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Swan Lake.	NA	1876	00:20
Wind of Change	Scorpions	Crazy World.	Vertigo/Mercury	1990	01:10
Mind Blown And Wiped Clean	TBASA	Good Good Good.	TBASA	2012	00:34
Georgia on My Mind	Ray Charles	The Genius Hits the Road.	ABC Records	1960	00:32
Hymn to Red October	Basil Poledouris	Hunt for Red October.	Paramount Pictures	1990	00:41
Punk Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away	Pussy Riot	Punk Prayer.	Dirt Records	2012	00:40

Additional Files

Full Transcript (Transcript-GenerationPutin.pdf)

Images

Protestors in Moscow, Sept. 15th 2012. Their banner shows Pussy Riot-style balaclavas.
Credit: Sarah Stuteville

Victory Cafe - Kiev, Ukraine
Credit: Sarah Stuteville

Additional Credits

Brooke Gladstone, Host
Martha Little, Editor
Jessica Partnow, Lead Producer
Sarah Stuteville, Producer
Alex Stonehill, Assistant Producer

Funding from Open Society Foundations.
Produced by The Seattle Globalist and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange with support from WNYC, KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, Global Voices and the University of Washington.

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