In Moscow's Shadows 93: Oligarchs and Judges
Isn't it time to scrap the term 'oligarch'? In Russia - as perhaps, not in Ukraine...
In Moscow's Shadows 93: Oligarchs and Judges
Isn't it time to scrap the term 'oligarch'? In Russia - as perhaps, not in Ukraine...
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 97: Where Are They Now?
Even loyalists seem in some cases to be taking a step back, not for a moment standing against the...
In Moscow's Shadows 98: Dogs of War (and Racoons)
News that gas corporation Gazprom appears to be sponsoring a mercenary unit in Ukraine prompts me...
In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical
It's an easy journalistic shorthand to hall Putin a new tsar (I've done it myself), but...
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 102: The Wolf that Only Howls: the Chechens in Ukraine
A spat between Wagner's Prigozhin and Chechnya's Kadyrov provides a good opportunity to...
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 104: Paranormal Putinism
After the usual quick run-through of war-related news, I consider the rise of mysticism and...
In Moscow's Shadows 105: Prigozhin's Mutiny
Prigozhin's mutiny... or, 36 hours of what-the-hell? It's too close for a really...
Wagner Chief Calls Off Mutiny To 'Avoid Bloodshed'
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his troops to 'avoid bloodshed' and behind this...
Wagner Mutiny: A Crisis For Putin's Authority?
On Left Right & Centre, we dive deep into the situation in Russia, where mercenary leader...
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 108: Where Have All The Generals Gone?
Is there a post-mutiny purge of the military going on? What can we learn from the apparent...
In Moscow's Shadows 109: A Tale of Two Last Wars, Afghanistan and Ukraine
Can one draw meaningful parallels between the Soviets' 1979-88 war in Afghanistan, and the...
In Moscow's Shadows 110: Why Navalny Doesn't Hate The Goat
He may have just been sentenced to another 19 years, now in a 'special regime colony',...
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...
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