The Naked Pravda

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

Episodes

Total: 170

A new investigation from journalists at iStories and researchers at the Conflict Intelligence Team a

Russian music at war

2023/10/21

If major events and cultural shifts are what elevate music, now is an excellent time to take stock o

In August, a wave of police raids sent a chill through Russia’s migrant communities. By all appearan

Have you given much thought to the economic war that rages behind the scenes of Russia’s brutal inva

Following an “anti-terrorist” operation by the Azerbaijani military in Nagorno-Karabakh, what was a

Vladimir Putin has made a slew of anti-Semitic comments in the last few months, from saying Ukraine’

On June 23, 2023, hours before Yevgeny Prigozhin would shock the world by staging a mutiny against t

This week’s show tackles Russia’s 2023 regional elections, scheduled for Sunday, September 10, thoug

How complicit are ordinary Russians in the invasion of Ukraine? That’s a question at the core of Rus

A new Russian history textbook for 11th graders announced earlier this summer, “The History of Russi

“This is a history of a place that doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as Eastern Europe anymore.

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny famously returned to Moscow in January 2021, where he w

In the final week before the State Duma’s summer recess, Russian lawmakers have been ramming through

Since the early aftermath of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many major Western companies have b

How many Russians have been killed in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine? If you visited Meduza’s we

Moscow and Kyiv have traded allegations that the other side is planning a disastrous attack on the Z

Yevgeny Prigozhin is now (in)famous around the world for mounting a failed mutiny against the Russia

On June 14, the Russian State Duma passed the first reading of a new bill that would essentially ban

About a month ago, the Russian authorities outlawed Greenpeace, giving it the same treatment as Medu

Ten years ago this week, a curious thing happened: during the intermission of a ballet performance a