Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili Under Arrest In Ukraine, Russia Barred From 2018 Winter Olympics For Doping, And Global Notes: Lemon Bucket Orkestra

By Worldview Staff

Dec 13, 2017, 2:53pm CT

Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov, right, speaks to the media after an Russian Olympic committee meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. The Russian Olympic Committee formally gave its blessing Tuesday for the country's athletes to compete under a neutral flag at the upcoming Pyeongchang Games. AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili Under Arrest In Ukraine, Russia Barred From 2018 Winter Olympics For Doping, And Global Notes: Lemon Bucket Orkestra

By Worldview Staff

Dec 13, 2017, 2:53pm CT

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On today’s show:

Anders Åslund, resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, discusses the case of former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who was arrested last week.
We talk about the International Olympic Committee decision to ban the Russian Federation from the 2018 Winter Olympics with sports journalist Mark Johnson, author of Spitting in the Soup: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports.
For Global Notes, Worldview producer Julian Hayda introduces us to the band Lemon Bucket and its creator, Mark Marczyk.