Russia, behind the headlines as well as in the shadows. This podcast is the audio counterpart to Mar
Schrödinger's Defence Minister, at once busy and visible yet strangely inconsequential and inta
'Strategic culture' means the underlying cultural assumptions and threats and options that
It's impossible to avoid talking about the potential implications of Donald Trump's electi
I use reviews of three books to consider the risks and limitations of personalistic explanations of
(It seems to be obligatory to use a weak BRICS/bricks pun, so I felt I had to follow...)The BRICS su
Released to Patrons yesterday, a bonus mini-pod on the claims that North Korean combat troops are he
An all-spook episode, as I try to piece together the rise of FSB First Deputy Director Sergei Korole
At times it does look as if the emigre liberal opposition to Putin is in such a mess that it looks l
The appointment to the Security Council of Alexander Linets, head of the Main Directorate of Special
Putin's at it again, raising nuclear fears to unsettle the West. Or is the new revision to Russ
While the Security Council itself is having its time wasted with trivia, new Security Council Secret
I still haven't decided how/if to continue with these mid-week quickfire podcasts picking up on
What may a misadventure from 17th century Russian imperial history tell us about modern Russia? Why,
As promised, a quickfire interim episode covering some of the past week's stories, from drones
I spin off two recent books, Elena Kostychenko's, I Love Russia. Reporting from a lost country
Empty rumours of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's death on the internet yesterday, got
After another armed hostage taking by inmates (and bloody response), I consider what’s going on in R
As Ukraine's Kursk incursion rumbles on, what does it tell us about the political processes in
I had hoped to not have to record a podcast this weekend, but life does enjoy its little pranks. A s
Where to start? The prisoner exchange and subsequent furore over released dissidents' statement
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