The Naked Pravda

Meduza’s English-language podcast, The Naked Pravda highlights how our top reporting intersects with

Episodes

Total: 170

It’s been seven weeks since a local branch of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service published a brie

It’s been a little more than a week since a group of armed men walked into a concert hall just outsi

For decades, NATO’s European members have depended on the U.S. to bolster their defense. Perhaps now

U.S. President Joe Biden took less than two minutes to bring up Russia in his 2024 State of the Unio

Last month, there was a sudden panic in the United States when House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turn

To mark the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Moscow’s ongoing campaign to seiz

Meduza reports on opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in prison and speaks to experts about his

After a year and a half of negotiations, Yandex founder Arkady Volozh and the company’s foreign shar

The Russian government has a message for its citizens living in exile: nowhere is safe for you. For

Boris Nadezhdin’s surname has its root in the Russian word for “hope,” and he’s inspired just that i

The U.S. government is reportedly becoming more “assertive” about backing the confiscation of roughl

The Naked Pravda explores how Russia’s mobilization drive is pressuring society and capturing men fo

Memories of Russia

2023/12/29

In a special holiday departure from The Naked Pravda’s usual coverage of Russian politics and news,

Answering the question “Where are you from?” has never come easily for Lena Wolf. As the descendents

There’s a paradox in studying Russia today: the country has become “more prominent in the news agend

On November 30, the Russian Supreme Court outlawed an organization that doesn’t exist: the so-called

Spotlight on Georgia

2023/12/2

On November 8, 2023, the E.U. recommended that Georgia be granted candidate status, which it applied

This week’s show spotlights the experiences of two comedians, “Dan the Stranger” (Denis Chuzhoi) and

This week, Meduza spoke to Dr. Sergey Radchenko about his next book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s

On the evening of October 29, a crowd of rioters stormed the Makhachkala airport and then flooded th