In Moscow's Shadows 35: Crackdown, Belarus, HMS Defender and the Putin-Biden Summit
A bit of a grab-bag: what to make of the continuing crackdown in Russia, is there scope to...
In Moscow's Shadows 35: Crackdown, Belarus, HMS Defender and the Putin-Biden Summit
A bit of a grab-bag: what to make of the continuing crackdown in Russia, is there scope to...
In Moscow's Shadows 43: Poklonskaya, Ethnic Rumbles and Naryshkin's Claims to be Putin's Mate
Sometimes it's worth digging into what look like less important stories, to see what lessons...
In Moscow's Shadows 51: Ukraine, Prisons, Legitimacy and Lombards...
Something of a miscellany. First of all, latest thoughts - that turn out to be disappointingly...
In Moscow's Shadows 52: Nightmares before Christmas? Ukraine and the Russian underworld
Quite what is Russia's game plan over Ukraine? It seems hard to explain through common...
In Moscow's Shadows 53: Trick or Treaties - Russia's proposals to 'resolve' the current crisis
A short, one-segment piece on Russia's proposed new treaties and how, despite what their...
In Moscow's Shadows 54: Naughty or Nice? What 2022 May Hold For Russia's Rulers
To kick off the year, rather than making some grand predictions about Russia, instead I speculate...
In Moscow's Shadows 55: Kazakhstan, through the Russian lens
A Russian-led force deploying into Kazakhstan has inevitably had some people talking invasion,...
In Moscow's Shadows 57: Who's Trapping Whom on Ukraine, and some 2022 Predictions for Russia
I spin a post on the Nezygar Telegram channel out to explore the current uncertain state of play...
In Moscow's Shadows 60: Ukraine: Nuclear Options, National Morale, and How Kyiv Can Save Moscow
What can one say about the unfolding horror in Ukraine. In this podcast I alight on a few...
I am not really sure what this message is specifically about, seriously, sometimes that happens.
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In Moscow's Shadows 68: No, Russia isn't winning in Ukraine, and no, there's no coup imminent...
Good news and bad news? Anyway, in the first part I explore what's happening in the Donbas,...
In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin
I look at the career of Igor Girkin, better known as Strelkov, the ultra-nationalist who has...
The final batch of patrons' and listeners' questions answered - sometimes better than...
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,...
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...
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...