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The Future of Eastern Europe

Season 4, Ep. 32

Wherein Ben welcomes Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia, to discuss Eastern European reactions to Russia and Trump. They also talk electronic government in Estonia, and Ben demonstrates one of the problems with e-government via a series of tech glitches.

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