
MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ
@mashaubrenner
Writer, editor, journalist, audio producer; media manager @HarrimanInst; host & producer, Voices of Ukraine; Expert Opinions @Eurasianet; @columbiajourn alumna.
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In the 1st ep of #VoicesofUkraine, Season 2, MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ interviews Katia Shraga Davydenko of Columbia University Columbia Libraries about growing up Jewish in Soviet Kyiv, immigrating to New York, & her time protesting Russiaβs aggression & volunteering since 2014 harriman.columbia.edu/259772-2/


"The editor said, why are we talking about death in Paris? Canβt you just die a beautiful death in the Soviet Union?" β Natalka Bilotserkivets @columbiaideas Columbia Global Paris Center Read MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ's intrvw & join our 3/27 celebration of Ukrainian culture ow.ly/GGNP50NngV8

"We left on the last train from Donetsk to Kyiv. It was really dangerous because the train station was being bombed" β Nikita Grigorov. Read MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ's conversation with our current Harriman Resident/PKF fellow Columbia Global Paris Center @columbiaideas ow.ly/yLC250Nos5E

"After her death I cried for four months before I could edit the footage. Then I decided that it would be easier for me to look at the story as a director, not as her daughter" β Zoya Laktionova @columbiaideas Columbia Global Paris Center Read MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ's intrvw ow.ly/eeYh50Npu3p

"Many people in Poland told me they hadnβt cried since the war started. But once they saw the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra playing on stage again, they cried" β Anna Stavychenko. Read MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ's intrvw & join our 3/27 celebration of Ukrainian culture ow.ly/lV2e50NqAz2

Check out the latest Voices of Ukraine with Spanish journalist Argemino Barro Barro. He recounts his time reporting on Donbas in 2014

In the latest #VoicesofUkraine, MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ talked to Spanish journalist Argemino Barro Barro about his experiences reporting on Donbas in 2014, right when Russia began its destabilization efforts there. Listen & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! ow.ly/oI7G50NQSi1

Discover the Voices of Ukraine podcast from Harriman Institute Columbia University's Harriman Institute! Hear firsthand stories of Ukrainians living through Russia's aggression since 2014. harriman.columbia.edu/voices-of-ukraβ¦

Our newest story Mystery of the Disappearing Teepee is set in the Manhattan neighborhood of #Inwood where in the local park a teepee stood. Until it was gone. Only to return. Then disappear again. Who wanted this teepee gone, and why? rb.gy/54gu4 By: MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ

4. "For Udensiva-Brenner and Amarante, both immigrants, it is a place to feel a connection: to place, to the past, to nature." Carolyn Wells highlights MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ's beautiful essay for The Delacorte Review: delacortereview.org/2023/05/23/mysβ¦

Mystery of the Disappearing Teepee by MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ delacortereview.org/2023/05/23/mysβ¦ via Carolyn Wells

"This is not the moment to turn away from the place and people I love.β In Harriman Talks, Harriman Magazine editor MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ catches up w/ Liliane Bivings, MARS-REERS β23, Business Editor The Kyiv Independent ow.ly/5ecv50PSZyW

In Harriman Talks, Harriman Magazine editor MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ discusses developments in Ukraine and Russia w/Joshua Yaffa (Columbia Journalism School β07/Columbia | SIPA β08), contributing writer for The New Yorker ow.ly/TCMq50PXLkY

"After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she began to feel as if all of Moscow had relocated to Tbilisi." MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ on the lives of Russian expats fleeing the Kremlin. lithub.com/limbo-in-tbiliβ¦

This week in The The Delacorte Review: MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ, '21 M.S., details the lives of Russian expats who've landed in the Georgian capitol of Tbilisi. Check out the piece, co-published with Literary Hub: delacortereview.org/2023/10/19/in-β¦

Our latest story follows the lives of Russian exiles and persecuted journalists fleeing Moscowβs repression, crisscrossing in a city in flux, Tbilisi, Georgia, with no way back home. By MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ in collaboration with Literary Hub. rb.gy/ipogd

Since 2011, we've been hosting Paul Klebnikov Civil Society Fellows at the Institute. MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ caught up with five of them β independent Russian journalists in exile β in the latest issue of #HarrimanMag ow.ly/nLLo50URgK0


Spoke to MashaUdensivaBrenner ππ of the Harriman Institute about Ukraine, the war, its history and its future. This is the second episode of Harriman Magazine's new podcast, Beyond the Scoop: harriman.columbia.edu/beyond-the-scoβ¦