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In Moscow's Shadows
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In Moscow's Shadows 146: Britain and Russia, Eternal Frenemies
45 mins; May 12, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 145: How Corruption Works Under Putin
53 mins; May 05, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 144: Of Talks and Thugs
67 hours 10 mins; April 21, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 143: Of MICE and Man
58 mins; April 14, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 142: Heresies and Revolutions
53 mins; April 07, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 141: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (kinda)
55 mins; March 31, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 140: Terrorism and Totalitarianism
52 mins; March 24, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 139: Why Even Sham Elections Can Matter
55 mins; March 17, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 138: Gangster Geopolitics
54 mins; March 09, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 137: They Pretend To Lead Us, We Pretend To Believe
50 mins; March 02, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 136: Avenging Navalny
41 mins; February 25, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 135: Navalny in the late Soviet Union
61 hours 12 mins; February 18, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 134: Kaliningrad still at the Crossroads
54 mins; February 11, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 133: Books on Russia, Books on Ukraine
50 mins; February 04, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 132: A View from the Provinces
48 mins; January 28, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 131: European Strategy and Vorobyov's Prospects
68 hours 57 mins; January 21, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 130: Questions I Can't Answer
45 mins; January 14, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 129: It's All About Putin's Eggs
39 mins; January 07, 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 128: Politics, War and Lunacy - a look forward to 2024
55 mins; December 29, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 127: When Napoleon was Nuked and Other Russian Conspiracy Theories
55 mins; December 23, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 126: Truth and Tedium in Putin's Marathon Town Hall and the Russian Press
45 mins; December 17, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 125: Putin's Coming Back! And So's the Cold War?
49 mins; December 10, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 124: Putin's Performative Politics
53 mins; December 03, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 123: Russia's 'Red-Brown' Leftists, and How I Became A Voice of the West
55 mins; November 19, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 122: Taking on Conventional Wisdom About Putin
42 mins; November 12, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 121: Making Sense of Makhachkala
51 mins; November 04, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 120: Putin is Dead! (well, probably not)
43 mins; October 29, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 119: Manifestos to the Left of me, Manifestos to the Right
58 mins; October 22, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 118: Clueless in Gaza - Russia and the current Middle East crisis
42 mins; October 14, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 117: Security Politics and the President Who Can't Change His Spots
46 mins; October 08, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 116: Putin's "Forever War" (which isn't)
51 mins; October 01, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 115: Kadyrov and the Conflict Entrepreneurs
62 hours 27 mins; September 24, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 114: Six of the Best (?)
52 mins; September 10, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 113: And Goodnight Wagner?
51 mins; September 03, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 112: Goodbye Prigozhin
46 mins; August 27, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 111: A Nervous Kremlin and a Neglected Police Force
58 mins; August 20, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 110: Why Navalny Doesn't Hate The Goat
55 mins; August 12, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 109: A Tale of Two Last Wars, Afghanistan and Ukraine
53 mins; July 26, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 108: Where Have All The Generals Gone?
40 mins; July 16, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 107: Where Are We Now On Prigozhin's Mutiny?
56 mins; July 09, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 106: The Spooky Side of Prigozhin's Mutiny
37 mins; July 02, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 105: Prigozhin's Mutiny
50 mins; June 25, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 104: Paranormal Putinism
46 mins; June 20, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 103: The Rise of the Princeling Patrushev, the Grey Cardigan
36 mins; June 11, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 102: The Wolf that Only Howls: the Chechens in Ukraine
38 mins; June 04, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 101: Phoney Wars and Rising Stars
49 mins; May 28, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 100: All the News That's Fit to Print (in Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
34 mins; May 14, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical
45 mins; May 07, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 98: Dogs of War (and Racoons)
54 mins; April 29, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 97: Where Are They Now?
47 mins; April 22, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 96: Of Leaks and Lengths
49 mins; April 16, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 95: Tatarsky, Gershkovich, Patrushev and Guns
56 mins; April 04, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 94: What do you do with a problem like Medvedev?
46 mins; March 26, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 93: Oligarchs and Judges
44 mins; March 19, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 92: Everyone's Got an Agenda: Hungary, China, Neo-Nazis, Kadyrov, Anime Fans...
55 mins; March 05, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 91: Russian Fantasies - Putin's address to the nation and the lessons from Russian science fiction
53 mins; February 11, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s
50 mins; February 05, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 89: Tanks, the New Patriotic War and the Strelkov-Prigozhin Spat
57 mins; January 29, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 88: Enter Gerasimov
47 mins; January 12, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin's New Year's Address
54 mins; January 01, 2023
In Moscow's Shadows 86: Russian Rumours and Cognitive Biases
35 mins; December 10, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 85: War and Peace (and how both are changing)
55 mins; December 04, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 84: Putin the History (Abuse) Man
59 mins; November 20, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 83: Putin's decision-making; and Russian organised crime after the invasion
54 mins; November 13, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 82: What Prigozhin Wants, What Putin Believes, and Why Russia Might Create its own Bureau 39
53 mins; November 06, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 81: A Sampling of the Latest News; and the Russo-Chinese Intelligence Relationship
39 mins; October 30, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 80: Annexations, Mobilisations, Martial Law and More
59 mins; October 22, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 79: Putin's Dilemmas, on and off the battlefield
44 mins; September 16, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 78: Organised Labour in a Neoliberal and Authoritarian Russia
36 mins; September 05, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 77: Gorbachev's Hope vs Putin's Victimhood, a short rumination
17 mins; September 01, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 76: The Impotence of Power and Giving Liz Truss some options for Narrative Warfare
58 mins; August 28, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 75: Shoigu and Power under Putinism-Patrushevism
53 mins; August 15, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 74: Putinism-Patrushevism
49 mins; July 31, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 73: From Liberal Politics to Boris Johnson's Departure, answers to more listener questions
59 mins; July 17, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin
55 mins; July 10, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 71: Russia, Ukraine and beyond - another miscellany
58 mins; July 02, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 70: A Miscellany - Being Banned, Putin and Lavrov Speak Out, Divisions in the Elite and Listeners' Questions
46 mins; June 18, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 69: A Bargain-Basement Empire in the Offing, and Who Is Sergei Kirienko?
51 mins; June 13, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 68: No, Russia isn't winning in Ukraine, and no, there's no coup imminent...
45 mins; May 29, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 67: Why September is the Month to Watch, and 'Putin, Ukraine and the Revenge of History'
46 mins; May 18, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 66: Silovik, Nuclear, Criminal and Religious - a Choice of Victories
53 mins; May 01, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 65: Fabian Burkhardt on Russia's Elites, Coups and Rumours
64 hours 34 mins; April 22, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 64: Dvornikov, Mishustin, Scenarios and Traitors - more about Ukraine
52 mins; April 16, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 63: Terrible Crimes, Terrible Rulers, Terrible Dilemmas
28 mins; April 03, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 62: Ukraine: A New Strategy, An Absent Shoigu, An Angry National Guard and a Medieval Lithuanian Comparison
29 mins; March 26, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 61: Ukraine: When Autocracy meets Technocracy - Putin's War, Info War, Spook War
46 mins; March 12, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 60: Ukraine: Nuclear Options, National Morale, and How Kyiv Can Save Moscow
31 mins; February 27, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 59: Imagining a Ukrainian peace deal
31 mins; February 20, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 58: Ukrainian thoughts, welcome to stagnation, and more 2022 predictions
32 mins; February 14, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 57: Who's Trapping Whom on Ukraine, and some 2022 Predictions for Russia
52 mins; January 30, 2022
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (6): A Christmas Scandal
11 mins; January 27, 2022
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 24 December 2021: Dmitry Mironov
13 mins; January 23, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 56: Jaw-Jaw so Far, not War-War (brief thoughts on the state of play)
22 mins; January 22, 2022
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (7): Russia’s Planet Business in 2022
14 mins; January 11, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 55: Kazakhstan, through the Russian lens
39 mins; January 09, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 54: Naughty or Nice? What 2022 May Hold For Russia's Rulers
31 mins; January 01, 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 53: Trick or Treaties - Russia's proposals to 'resolve' the current crisis
20 mins; December 19, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 52: Nightmares before Christmas? Ukraine and the Russian underworld
40 mins; December 12, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 51: Ukraine, Prisons, Legitimacy and Lombards...
39 mins; November 28, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 50: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus and Ukraine
47 mins; November 21, 2021
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