Russia, behind the headlines as well as in the shadows. This podcast is the audio counterpart to Mar
An episode, I admit, on the nerdier end of the spectrum, as I dig into Putin's latest State of
Avenging may not be quite the right word, but what can the West do to punish the Kremlin for Navalny
Well, not really, but how Navalny's awful death helps illustrate how late Putinism in its &apos
Is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad a dangerous Russian bastion threatening the West, a point of v
As I'm travelling this weekend, this episode is a compilation of two sets of comparative book r
Barring particularly high-profile developments, we tend to look at Russia through the prism of Mosco
A podcast of two halves. First of all, I look at the dilemmas and limitations facing European (EU an
The essence of podcasting and punditry may be to peddle confident certainties, but often we don’t re
Russia is still gripped by an egg crisis, after prices rose 46% last year. Now the security apparatu
Less whimsical than the last one, the final episode of 2023 looks ahead to the coming year: the can
Was Moscow nuked in 1812? Have a thousand years of history been made up to conceal the power of the
I felt I ought to cover Putin's combined press conference and online town hall, but it was just
So, surprise, surprise, Putin's standing for re-election. A few thoughts on how it was announce
There's a myth that authoritarian leaders don't have to worry about public politics: argua
Has hell frozen over? Left Front leading light Leonid Razvozzhaev is backing the inclusion of ultra-
After looking at a few recent news stories that caught my eye, on everything from the Ministry of Ha
What can we learn from the ugly anti-Semitic riot at Makhachkala airport? Officially sanctioned, for
In what sounds more like a scene from Armando Ianucci's Death of Stalin, an anonymous Telegram
Alexei Navalny has posted a list of 10 questions he thinks all movers and shakers in the Russian (op
A quick and early episode looking at what roles and goals - if any - Russia has in the current Hamas
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