April 8 - Russia Warns Ukraine Not to Use Force Against Protests it is Provoking; An American Whose Adopted Home is Rwanda on the 20th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide

Full Program

Part 1

With Russian “political tourists” occupying government buildings in Ukraine, we will begin with Russia warning Ukraine of civil war if it uses force to quell the protests it is provoking, and the U.S. and NATO warning Russia to stay out of Ukraine. Alexander Motyl, a professor of Political Science at Rutgers University who is a specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR and author of “The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism 1919 – 1929”, joins us to discuss his latest article in the Kiev Post “Could Russia Occupy Ukraine” and this increasingly volatile situation that could quickly get out of hand and lead to serious bloodshed between Russia and Ukraine and a confrontation between the West and Putin’s Russia.

Part 2

Then we speak with Josh Ruxin, the director of Health Builders in Rwanda who has led projects in several developing countries operating at the intersection of public health, business and international development. He lives with his family in his adopted home of Rwanda where his wife runs a successful restaurant and is the author of “A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope and a Restaurant in Rwanda”. We discuss the commemoration this week in Rwanda of the 20^th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the extent to which the country has revived and the people have healed from the almost incomprehensible massacres of over 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis at the hands of Hutu extremists, many of whom killed former neighbors, friends, spouses and children.