Russia, behind the headlines as well as in the shadows. This podcast is the audio counterpart to Mar
Today (9 May) is Victory Day, and the sad truth is that this also inevitably means claims and counte
A mysterious glitch silenced the first, Navalny-related part of this podcast. This has now been fixe
A personal and unpolished snap response to the news that the Czech government is expelling 18 Russia
Why is there this talk of Russia as a 'declining power' - and is it true? I'd suggest
Rumours that Zhirinovsky is going to step down from leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party look
Who are the main 'siloviki' or 'men of force,' the heads of Russia's securi
All the Ms. First of all, as a counter to the understandable pessimism about Russia at the moment, I
A short. 'one act' special: with the news (still unconfirmed) that Navalny is being sent t
With Navalny in prison, the opposition mobilising, and the state cracking down, what will happen nex
It's a deliberately provocative title, I know, but how might the 'Navalny effect' imp
Yesterday saw major protests all across Russia, a genuine success for Team Navalny. But now what? My
Another short 'cellcast', though given its timeliness, going public straightaway.In this c
The FSO, the Federal Protection Service (or Federal Guard Service) is more that just Putin's da
So Russia has a new laser system, called Peresvet. Pere-who? This gets me talking, for the last of t
How did Defence Minister Shoigu make it from graduating from Krasnoyarsk Poly as a construction engi
How might a scandal from 2019 affect who runs the FSB in 2021? And should we consider levels of elit
Today in 1979, Afghanistan was waking up under Soviet domination. In this first cellcast of the 2020
More on the Navalny case, the story that keeps unfolding, following the publication of his conversat
An impressively detailed investigation by Bellingcat and The Insider meticulously details the Russia
Is there life in the Communist Party, and any chance of it again becoming an opposition party, maybe
