This Means War: Ep 6 – Natia Seskuria
Peter Roberts talks to Natia Seskuria, Founder and Executive Director of the Regional Institute...
This Means War: Ep 6 – Natia Seskuria
Peter Roberts talks to Natia Seskuria, Founder and Executive Director of the Regional Institute...
In Moscow's Shadows 75: Shoigu and Power under Putinism-Patrushevism
Continuing from last episode, in which I postulate that Russia is now in the grip of...
How far is the Kremlin grappling with the problem of power and relevance: it has made promises,...
We all know the rabbinic way, right? If not, we will listen to them and then get the REAL way,...
In Moscow's Shadows 80: Annexations, Mobilisations, Martial Law and More
I'm back after a month of travels, and what a month it's been. In this...
Episode 5: Alexander Svechin: Inventor of Soviet Operational Art with Professor Gudrun Persson
Aleksandr Andreevich Svechin was an ethnic Russian born in Odessa in 1878. He became an officer...
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In Moscow's Shadows 85: War and Peace (and how both are changing)
What broader lessons about the changing nature of war, peace and power can we draw from the...
In Moscow's Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin's New Year's Address
A collection of topics: Putin's rather bellicose New Year Address and what to make of it,...
In Moscow's Shadows 89: Tanks, the New Patriotic War and the Strelkov-Prigozhin Spat
What does it mean that Western-designed tanks will now be supplied to Ukraine, and what - if any...
In Moscow's Shadows 94: What do you do with a problem like Medvedev?
Spinning off from a recent piece for the Spectator, I look at Dmitri Medvedev's decline and...
In Moscow's Shadows 96: Of Leaks and Lengths
What can we learn from the massive trove of US secret documents recently and incautiously leaked?...
In Moscow's Shadows 100: All the News That's Fit to Print (in Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
As a change from the usual, I look through the top six news items currently on the website of...
In Moscow's Shadows 101: Phoney Wars and Rising Stars
Bakhmut has (probably, kinda) fallen and Belgorod raided. The first is hardly a real defeat for...
In Moscow's Shadows 103: The Rise of the Princeling Patrushev, the Grey Cardigan
After the inevitable quick look at the Ukrainian counter-offensive (too little to say really...
In Moscow's Shadows 106: The Spooky Side of Prigozhin's Mutiny
A shorter episode, because there is still so much about the causes, course and consequences of...
In Moscow's Shadows 107: Where Are We Now On Prigozhin's Mutiny?
There still seems no escaping the fallout from Priogozhin's mutiny, whether we're...
In Moscow's Shadows 111: A Nervous Kremlin and a Neglected Police Force
Marking the anniversary of the second day of the 1991 August Coup, the day when momentum began to...
In Moscow's Shadows 112: Goodbye Prigozhin
What can we say about the death of Prigozhin (beyond good riddance?). At the risk of overstating...
In Moscow's Shadows 134: Kaliningrad still at the Crossroads
Is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad a dangerous Russian bastion threatening the West, a point...
Alexei Navalny (with Professor Graeme Robertson)
Stephen speaks to Professor Graeme Robertson about the life and death of Alexei Navalny....
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