Our introductory episode to ReligioPolitics, our six-part podcast series, focuses on the successful campaign in early 2019 in Ukraine to create a Ukrainian Orthodox Church by then-President Poroshenko who later lost in a landslide to Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian that had impersonated him on a popular show. Joining the program to explain its implications for geopolitics in Eastern Europe is Dr. Gene Lemcio, Affiliated Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the UW.