The Naked Pravda

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

Episodes

Total: 170

Russia’s coronavirus vaccine: Assessing the risks and research behind ‘Sputnik V’
2020/8/30

If you’ve read anything about Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, “Sputnik V,” you know that it’s rolling

Poisoned in Russia: Alexey Navalny fights for his life as a deadly trend catches up to the country’s top oppositionist
2020/8/21

Opposition politician and Anti-Corruption Foundation creator Alexey Navalny was hospitalized early o

The Belarusian Election: Three experts explain what to expect from the presidential vote and the real political battle that follows
2020/8/8

On August 9, Belarus concludes its most contentious, openly dirtiest, and toughest presidential camp

The Sino-Russian Propaganda Pact: How Moscow and Beijing bungled a media partnership meant to promote each other
2020/7/31

For the past two years, several major state news organizations in Russia have been working with Chin

The FSO on the QT: The state of sociological work and opinion polling in Russia today
2020/7/25

In reporting and analysis about Russian politics, the question is ubiquitous: How does Vladimir Puti

Treason and Military Journalism in Russia: The arrest and prosecution of Ivan Safronov
2020/7/11

On the morning of July 7, federal agents arrested Ivan Safronov, a longtime journalist who recently

The Seventh Studio Case: What Kirill Serebrennikov means to Russia’s art world
2020/6/27

On Friday, June 26, a Moscow court announced verdicts in the controversial “Seventh Studio” case inv

‘Secondary Infektion’: Ben Nimmo explains how his investigative team helped to uncover a long-running Russian disinformation operation
2020/6/19

On today’s show, host Kevin Rothrock speaks to online-disinformation investigation pioneer Ben Nimmo

Nationalism and the Alt-Right: Another look at ‘Russian Lives Matter’
2020/6/13

This week’s show looks at Russian nationalism, activism in Russia against police brutality, and the

Russian Lives Matter: How America’s new civil rights movement reverberates in Russia
2020/6/6

On today’s episode, we’ll hear from five guests about race and injustice in Russia and the Soviet Un

Moral calculus under Putin: Joshua Yaffa talks about his new book, ‘Between Two Fires’
2020/5/22

This week's guest is Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker's Moscow correspondent and the author of the new b

It's business time: Max Seddon dissects the controversy at ‘Vedomosti’ and reviews the nature of financial reporting in Russia today
2020/5/15

In the past several weeks, Meduza has written extensively about the newsroom controversy at Vedomost

‘Red Dawn’: What Hollywood's most outlandish Cold War movie says about Americans and Russians
2020/4/24

In a world engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic, “The Naked Pravda” travels back in time to the care

Pandemic Justice: How COVID-19 and coronavirus containment measures have exacerbated problems in Russia's courts and prisons
2020/4/17

In regions and cities across Russia, state officials are taking extraordinary measures to limit peop

‘Russian Journalism's Newspeak’: How the Kremlin's euphemisms creep into reporting about disasters
2020/4/11

In late 2019, many Internet users started noticing that the Russian state media was increasingly des

‘The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad New Boss’: Editorial changes at ‘Vedomosti’ jeopardize one of Russia's best-respected business newspapers
2020/4/3

In late March 2020, after the owners of the newspaper Vedomosti confirmed that they'd reached a prel

‘Queer Science Fiction in Russian’: What space epics and tech dystopias tell us about post-Soviet minority activism
2020/3/27

LGBTQ activists in the Russophone world face obstacles that many in the Anglophone world do not, but

‘Russia's Chances Against Coronavirus’: Sizing up the country's healthcare capacity and social readiness for a pandemic
2020/3/20

As COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the world, the disease is pushing healthcare systems to the brink

‘Constitutional Gymnastics’: Russia's strange initiative to keep Vladimir Putin in office for years to come
2020/3/13

We’ve known it was coming since January when Vladimir Putin warned the nation, but now it’s moving a