Too neat for UATV, actually. It was first published by the youtube channel The Gaze, and then also featured on UATV.
Havent vetted The Gaze as a youtube channel. From a first glance it is integrated in the usual Ukrainian PR networks (judging by other host appearances, and topics chosen) quality level looks subpar (look, its a Führer 2.0 documentary…) so it aims at a broad audience.
But then this is mainly an uninterrupted interview with Stefano Bottoni.
Between 2002 and 2004, he was a doctoral student with a scholarship at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bologna, Department of Contemporary History, within the framework of the doctoral program “Storia d’Europa” (The History of Europe) (supervisor: Prof. Maria Salvati). Supervisors: prof. Francesco Benvenuti, Prof. Carla Tonini, Prof. Dennis Deletant (University of London - SSEES). He defended his doctorate on May 13, 2005. The title of his dissertation: Territorialità e politica etnica in Europa centro-orientale: il caso della Regione Autonoma Ungherese in Romania, 1952–1960
Polyglot : researches and publishes in Italian (level C2), Hungarian (C2), English (C1), Romanian (B2), French (B1) and German (B1).
2009–2011: research associate, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Center
01.03.2015 – 30.11.2015 Imre Kertész College, Jena . Title of the research project: Nation-building as internal security: the Romanian secret service and the Hungarian minority in Transylvania, 1956–1989
01.01.2012 – 28.02.2012: Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam . Visiting researcher in the framework of the international project Physical violence in State socialism
01.10.2007 – 01.10.2008: Volkswagen Stiftung: “Schleichwege”: Inoffizielle Begegnungen und Kontakte sozialistischer Staatsbürger 1956 – 1989. Research topic: Komárom/Komárno. Official and informal relations in a central European twin city (1960–1985)
01.05.2006 - 31.12.2006 Expert of the Romanian Presidential Commission on Communism (Comisia prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii comuniste din România)
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Currently in the media rotation circuit, probably via DW:
edit: Sidenote on the “Outsider within NATO” argument, this is not pressing at the moment. You can hear it through the grapevine, that currently seven NATO members are against (full) membership status of Ukraine - (as in: membership at this very moment).