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 71: Russia, Ukraine and beyond - another miscellany
After tackling three of recent developments worth noting - the evolving military command...
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 74: Putinism-Patrushevism
I play around with the concept of Putinism-Patrushevism, that while Putin's broad ambitions...
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 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...
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 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 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 86: Russian Rumours and Cognitive Biases
Is Putin contemplating fleeing to Venezuela? Is Medvedev more powerful than Patrushev? Does it...
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 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 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 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...