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How the Kyiv Independent used global sympathy to generate membership revenue

12/17/2025 • 42 min

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/ The Kyiv Independent launched in 2021, and its timing was in some ways fortuitous, since it was only a few months later that Russia launched a full-scale invasion in Ukraine. Suddenly, the entire world was paying attention to the country, and the Kyiv Independent happened to be the most authoritative English-la… Play episode

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