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In Moscow's Shadows 31: Navalny, Patrushev, Orban, and more [RELOADED]
A mysterious glitch silenced the first, Navalny-related part of this podcast. This has now been...
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In Moscow's Shadows 32: Victory Day and Memory Politics, and the Kremlin in WW2
Today (9 May) is Victory Day, and the sad truth is that this also inevitably means claims and...
In Moscow's Shadows 33: The Russian Orthodox Church PLC; and No Country For Old Securocrats
Is the Russian Orthodox Church a spiritual community, a political institution, or a business...
In Moscow's Shadows 27: Men of Force and Forceful Language
Who are the main 'siloviki' or 'men of force,' the heads of Russia's...
In Moscow's Shadows 34: Belarus, of course
A spur-of-the-moment, off-the-top-of-my-head take on what's going (wr)on(g) in Belarus: the...
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 36: Good News/Bad News: The Geneva Summit and Coronavirus on the Rise
The Geneva Summit: frankly, as good as one could expect, with Biden offering a shrewd carrot and...
The main reasons for the annual ritual of Putin's Direct Line phone-in encounter with the...
In Moscow's Shadows 38: The topic I never thought I'd address: Sport
A brief, single-segment podcast on the distinctive roles of sport for today's Kremlin. Not a...
Another short, single-segment episode, this time looking at 'On the Historical Unity of...
Is PM Mikhail Mishustin thinking long-term? His vision for Russia seems to be technocratic, maybe...
In Moscow's Shadows 41: The Communist Party Embattled...And Occultism and Russian Politics
Having long relied on it as a stalwart of the ‘systemic opposition’, the Kremlin now seems to be...
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...
I confess at this stage I couldn't think of much to say about the Russian elections that...
In Moscow's Shadows 49: Survivalism in Russia. And cheese.
While still processing a month spent in Russia, I feel that the uniting leitmotif is survivalism,...
In Moscow's Shadows 50: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus and Ukraine
In the first part, a little exploration of MID, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its decline -...
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...
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