In Moscow's Shadows
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In Moscow's Shadows 242: Igor Sechin, Sharpening Putin's Pencils for 30 Years
50 mins; March 29, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 241: When Attack Dogs Turn
42 mins; March 22, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 240: Frankenstein's Putinism
50 mins; March 15, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 239: Wars Foreign and Domestic
49 mins; March 08, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 238: Bangers and Mish
52 mins; March 01, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 237: How A 1552 Siege Explains A 2022 Invasion
61 hours 49 mins; February 22, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 236: What Is Russia?
52 mins; February 15, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Rebel Russia
27 mins; February 10, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 235: From a GRU to a Kill
52 mins; February 08, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: How Putin Is Protected
22 mins; February 03, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 234: PACE’s Picks, Ukraine’s Grid, Russia’s Corruption
42 mins; February 01, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 233: News, from Abu Dhabi to Kamchatka; and Chechnya After Kadyrov
49 mins; January 25, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 232: the Black Priest vs the Death Cult
45 mins; January 18, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine
64 hours 40 mins; January 11, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 230: The Rise and Fall of a Chechen Gang
64 hours 59 mins; January 04, 2026
In Moscow's Shadows 229: Heroes and Villains
44 mins; December 28, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 228: Blood & Soil versus Bread & Butter
48 mins; December 21, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 227: It's War! (within the emigre opposition, at least)
53 mins; December 14, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 226: Monsters in the Woods
34 mins; November 30, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 225: A Chance for Peace in Ukraine?
51 mins; November 23, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 224: In Helsinki's (and Kyiv's) Shadows
44 mins; November 16, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin, Who... or What?
42 mins; November 09, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 222: Are We Seeing A New Putin?
47 mins; November 02, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 221: Is the Sun Rising over Russo-Japanese Relations?
39 mins; October 26, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 220: Power Politics in the FSB and a new 'Most Dangerous Man in Russia'?
44 mins; October 12, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 219: Decoding Putin in Valdai
49 mins; October 05, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 218: Putin, the Blunderer-in-Chief?
58 mins; September 28, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 217: MiGs in Estonian skies, exercises on Poland's borders - a threat to Europe?
52 mins; September 21, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 216: What Security Guarantees for Ukraine Might Work?
47 mins; September 14, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 215: A Tale of Two Coups
48 mins; September 07, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 214: Law and Lawlessness in Late Putinism (or, Late Brezhnevism redux)
45 mins; August 31, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 213: Foreign Agents in Russia, Foreigners in Ukraine...
50 mins; August 24, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 212: War and Peace and Alaska
46 mins; August 17, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 211: Trump, Putin, Alaska...
46 mins; August 10, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 210: Is Russia Being Sentenced To The Digital Gulag?
44 mins; July 27, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 209: Eagle, Dragon, Bear - how the Ukraine war drives Moscow into Beijing's orbit
52 mins; July 20, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 208: 5 Million Downloads and Counting! A Q&A Compilation
56 mins; July 13, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 207: What Is Going On Between Baku and Moscow?
45 mins; July 06, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 206: Corruption, Putinism's Achilles' Heel
56 mins; June 29, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 205: The Peace Crisis that faces Russia after the Ukraine War
59 mins; June 22, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 204: The Opportunity and the Threat, Moscow and Iran, Moscow and the West
56 mins; June 15, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 203: Can Putin Afford To End The War?
57 mins; June 08, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 202: What Is This Resilience Thing Anyway?
57 mins; May 29, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 201: Peacetalkers and Warfighters
50 mins; May 18, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 200: Victory Day (whose?)
44 mins; May 11, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 199: the General in GenPop
49 mins; May 04, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 198: War (in Russia's underworld) and Peace (in Ukraine)?
53 mins; April 27, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 197: Russia's future fascist turn?
50 mins; April 20, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 196: Space, the Failing Frontier
48 mins; April 13, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 195: Q&A, Part 2
51 mins; April 09, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 194: Q&A, Part 1
60 hours 15 mins; April 06, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 193: Mishustin's Annual Report: what he says, what he doesn't
58 mins; March 30, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 192: What if Ukraine could join the EU in months, not years?
58 mins; March 23, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 191: How is Russian Foreign Policy Made?
51 mins; March 16, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 190: Sanctions, Spies, and Suspect Legitimacy
51 mins; March 09, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 189: Oval Office Mugging and Russia's Police in Crisis
49 mins; March 02, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 188: War and Peace and Trump
47 mins; February 23, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 187: Tatarstan
48 mins; February 09, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Ukrainskii Sindrom
19 mins; February 02, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 186: Why is Putin's Russia so Prone to Conspiracy Theories?
48 mins; February 02, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 185: The One With All The Stuff
51 mins; January 26, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 184: One Hundred Years of Companionship?
45 mins; January 18, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 183: War and Peace (and Public Opinion)
42 mins; January 12, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 182: Things To Watch in 2025
54 mins; January 05, 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 181: Strap in for a Bumpy 2025
34 mins; December 29, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 180: Keep Calm and Carry On
57 mins; December 22, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 179: Sex, Drugs & Rocky Roads
52 mins; December 15, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 178: Assad la vista, baby - what does Damascus's fall mean for Russia?
46 mins; December 08, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 177: Adaptation in Russia and Ukraine
50 mins; December 01, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 176: Is Andrei Belousov the Lavrov of the Defence Ministry?
55 mins; November 24, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 175: 'In a dangerous world, strike first' - Russian strategic culture
48 mins; November 17, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 174: Putin, Trump, and the 'Polyphonic' world order
37 mins; November 10, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin
49 mins; November 03, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 172: BRICS without Straw
39 mins; October 26, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows bonus minipodcast: North Koreans in Russia?
16 mins; October 21, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 171: The invisible and invidious Sergei Korolev, perhaps the next head of the FSB
47 mins; October 20, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 170: The Opposition Soap Opera
48 mins; October 13, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 169: The GUSP, the most secret of Russia's secret services
47 mins; October 06, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 168: Putin Wants Us To Have Nuclear Nightmares
43 mins; September 29, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 167: Shoigu Redux
47 mins; September 21, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 166: Raider Nation, a quick news round-up
18 mins; September 18, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 165: Prince Bogdoi, Information Logjams and Public-Private Empire
58 mins; September 15, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 164: From Ballots to Babies, a quick news round-up
25 mins; September 12, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 163: The Importance of Optimism (even when it comes to Russia)
50 mins; September 08, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 162: Lavrov's (Living) Obituary
47 mins; September 01, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 161: What's Going On in Russian Prisons?
55 mins; August 25, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 160: Kursk as Political Actor and Allegory
58 mins; August 18, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 159: The Kursk Incursion
40 mins; August 11, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 158: A Hectic Week in Russia
58 mins; August 04, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 157: No Crime and Much Punishment: the Gershkovich Case and recent books on Russia's prisons
49 mins; July 28, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 156: Are Putin's Praetorians up to the challenges of the future?
57 mins; July 21, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 155: Putin's Shadow War on the West
56 mins; July 13, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 154: What (if anything) does the Labour Party victory in the UK mean for Ukraine and Russia?
48 mins; July 06, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 153: Geopolitics, Nepotism, Terror and Assassination... (all the nice things)
61 hours 58 mins; June 30, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 152: Prigozhin's Mutiny, One Year On
67 hours 8 mins; June 23, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 151: From Switzerland to SMERSH
45 mins; June 16, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 150: An Unfunny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
56 mins; June 09, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 149: Dyumin, Deterrence and a Deputy
54 mins; June 02, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 148: 'Purging' the Military; the politics of anti-corruption in a corrupt system
44 mins; May 26, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 147: The Reshuffle, Or Change To Preserve Things As They Are
56 mins; May 19, 2024