In Moscow's Shadows 65: Fabian Burkhardt on Russia's Elites, Coups and Rumours
For an experimental change in format, this episode is given over to a long conversation with...
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In Moscow's Shadows 66: Silovik, Nuclear, Criminal and Religious - a Choice of Victories
A week before Victory Day, I consider some different constituencies' notions of victories....
Could the two witnesses be people other than those who the theologians claim them to be?
When are Russians really going to start feeling the pressure of the shooting war in Ukraine and...
In Moscow's Shadows 69: A Bargain-Basement Empire in the Offing, and Who Is Sergei Kirienko?
In the first part of this slightly rambling episode, I develop on a theme I covered for the...
Something of a magazine episode. In the first half I talk about my being banned from Russia...
In Moscow's Shadows 71: Russia, Ukraine and beyond - another miscellany
After tackling three of recent developments worth noting - the evolving military command...
In Moscow's Shadows 74: Putinism-Patrushevism
I play around with the concept of Putinism-Patrushevism, that while Putin's broad ambitions...
In Moscow's Shadows 77: Gorbachev's Hope vs Putin's Victimhood, a short rumination
A short, one-segment piece in which I consider one of the less widely-discussed aspects of...
In Moscow's Shadows 78: Organised Labour in a Neoliberal and Authoritarian Russia
It's Labo(u)r Day here in DC, so I look at the - pretty poor - state of organised labour in...
In Moscow's Shadows 79: Putin's Dilemmas, on and off the battlefield
Military analysts often talk about the way forces seek to 'impose dilemmas' in their...
The gift of tongues isn't what your church or synagogue is saying that it is.
In the first part of the podcast, I address the first batch of questions put to me by my Patrons,...
In Moscow's Shadows 83: Putin's decision-making; and Russian organised crime after the invasion
A fresh batch of Patrons' questions, clustered around Putin, his influences (no, Ivan Ilyin...
In Moscow's Shadows 84: Putin the History (Abuse) Man
My own contribution to the current discussion about how Putin tries to use and abuse history, and...
In Moscow's Shadows 86: Russian Rumours and Cognitive Biases
Is Putin contemplating fleeing to Venezuela? Is Medvedev more powerful than Patrushev? Does it...
In Moscow's Shadows 88: Enter Gerasimov
So what might it mean for Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov to be made the new overall...
In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s
The apparent hit on a Russian rightist, propagandist, and self-styled "swindler and mercenary"...
Putin has finally set a date for his annual address to the Federal Assembly, 21 February. He will...
In Moscow's Shadows 92: Everyone's Got an Agenda: Hungary, China, Neo-Nazis, Kadyrov, Anime Fans...
Why did Budapest 2023 remind me of Moscow 2007? Are Hungary or China 'pro-Russia'? What...
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