February 23, 2022

Ukraine and the defense of European democracy were front and center at the Munich Security Conference this past weekend. Christiane sat down with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, who spoke about Canada’s support for Kyiv and its own struggles with the COVID-19 protests that paralyzed Ottawa.

To take the measure of the mood at the Kremlin – as well as that of ordinary Russians – Christiane speaks with Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Journalist Masha Gessen’s latest article in The New Yorker tells of life on the Ukraine-Russia border, where locals talk of misleading propaganda and language divides. Gessen sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the current crisis -- and what the media gets wrong about Vladimir Putin.

The world remains on watch for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence having warned that war is imminent. In Ukraine, President Zelensky has called up military reservists and vowed that the country will not cede any territory. Estonia also borders Russia and its prime minister has been urging NATO to strengthen its defenses in eastern Europe. She joins the program from Tallinn.