The Naked Pravda

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

Episodes

Total: 170

‘Russians in America’: Russian immigrants and visitors in the U.S. discuss the 2020 Democratic primaries
2020/2/28

The Democratic Party's primaries are underway in the United States, where the country's increasingly

‘Starting WWII’: Today's war of words between Russia and Poland over the history of the late 1930s
2020/2/21

Earlier this month, Meduza published an article by Andrey Pertsev about President Vladimir Putin's s

‘Academic Freedom’: The fight over political activism inside Moscow's Higher School of Economics
2020/2/14

In mid-January, administrators at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE, perhaps the best univers

‘RuNet Sovereignty’: How Russia is trying to isolate its Internet segment from the rest of the world, maybe
2020/2/7

The “Agora” human rights group and digital activists at Roskomsvoboda recently released a report on

‘Conspiracy theories’: What Americans and Russians reveal about themselves in the stories they tell about each other
2020/1/24

In recent years, we've witnessed a strange convergence of Russian and American conspiratorial thinki

‘Executive power in Russia’: How we know what we know about Kremlin politics and what to expect from Putin's new Constitutional shakeup
2020/1/17

Most weeks, it's fair to say that you could probably roll your eyes at a 30-minute podcast about the

‘Tabloids and an inferiority complex’: The business and political strategy behind the media's biased Russia coverage
2019/12/20

According to a report by the news agency “Rossiya Segodnya,” almost half of the articles in the fore

‘The Information Nation’: Kremlin researchers and forensic journalists intersect at Russia’s black market for leaked personal data
2019/12/6

The Russian Presidential Affairs Department’s Scientific Research Computing Center (GRCC) develops s

‘Instead of her face, I saw a pizza’: How women in Russia are fighting back against sexual assault
2019/11/29

In life and in news reporting, violence against women is a sadly “evergreen” topic, but the issue ha

‘The Naked Pravda’ premiere trailer: Meduza’s new English-language podcast
2019/11/27

“The Naked Pravda” highlights how Meduza’s top reporting intersects with the wider research and expe