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In Moscow's Shadows
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In Moscow's Shadows 49: Survivalism in Russia. And cheese.
50 mins; November 14, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 48: What can you learn from Tula? On Russian provincial life and politics, Governor Dyumin, and busses
46 mins; October 24, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 47: Postcards from Moscow
36 mins; October 17, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 46: New 'Foreign Agent' restrictions and 'Hybrid Warfare'
43 mins; October 02, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 45: Pretty much everything but the election: Lavrov's corruption, Team Navalny's strategy, Zapad-2021, Stories That Didn't Bark, and Shoigu's future
42 mins; September 19, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 44: As above, so below - a prison riot in Kamchatka and a society looking to a sanitised past for hope
29 mins; September 06, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 43: Poklonskaya, Ethnic Rumbles and Naryshkin's Claims to be Putin's Mate
50 mins; August 29, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 42: Moscow's Afghan Worries, and the Trouble with Predictions
39 mins; August 21, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 41: The Communist Party Embattled...And Occultism and Russian Politics
34 mins; August 04, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 40: 'Mishustinism' and 'Kozakisation' - the adventures of technocrats in Moscow and the Donbas
42 mins; July 27, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 39: Putin's latest article on Ukraine and his attempt to place himself on the right side of history
19 mins; July 13, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 38: The topic I never thought I'd address: Sport
19 mins; July 12, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 37: Direct Line and the Politics behind Politics; and Wars in Afghanistan Compared
41 mins; July 03, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 36: Good News/Bad News: The Geneva Summit and Coronavirus on the Rise
31 mins; June 18, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 35: Crackdown, Belarus, HMS Defender and the Putin-Biden Summit
38 mins; June 12, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 34: Belarus, of course
44 mins; May 27, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 33: The Russian Orthodox Church PLC; and No Country For Old Securocrats
59 mins; May 23, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 32: Victory Day and Memory Politics, and the Kremlin in WW2
36 mins; May 09, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 31: Navalny, Patrushev, Orban, and more [RELOADED]
52 mins; May 01, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 30: The (Czech) Lion that Roared
28 mins; April 18, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 29: Is Russia Declining, and Is Putin's Handsome?
33 mins; April 13, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 28: The LDPR: Paralunatic Wing of United Russia
42 mins; April 02, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 27: Men of Force and Forceful Language
42 mins; March 24, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 26: Moscow's Marvels, and Mob Murder
52 mins; March 14, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 25: Navalny in Prison
16 mins; February 27, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 24: Scenarios for Russia after Navalny, and Dzerzhinsky vs Nevsky [reloaded]
56 mins; February 21, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 24: Scenarios for Russia, and Dzerzhinsky vs Nevsky
39 mins; February 21, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 23: Is Navalny the best thing that ever happened to Putinism? Russia's 'Stolypin moment'?
39 mins; February 06, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 22: The Morning After A Hot Day in Russia
33 mins; January 24, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 18 January 2021: What does the Kremlin do with Navalny?
13 mins; January 18, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 21: The Federal Protection Service (FSO) and Russian security politics; and Three Stories About the Opposition
44 mins; January 11, 2021
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 4 January: Kulikovo, 1380 to 2021
16 mins; January 11, 2021
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 1 January: Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu
21 mins; January 08, 2021
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 28 December: Directorate K and the FSB's dilemma
20 mins; January 04, 2021
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 25 December: Afghan Christmas
20 mins; January 01, 2021
In Moscow's Shadows 20: Spooks: more Navalny, will the FSB change tack, and did the SVR carry out a 'cyberattack'?
36 mins; December 22, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 19: The Navalny Hit (after the Bellingcat/Insider report)
25 mins; December 15, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 18: Life in the Communist Party? And Three Random Stories
27 mins; December 06, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 24 November 2020: Konstantin Malofeev and his Tsargrad party - a potential threat to the Kremlin from the right?
20 mins; November 30, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 17: Russian Gangsters; and Kadyrov and Captain America
30 mins; November 22, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 16: The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR): and Is Putin Ill? (Spoiler: Probably Not)
39 mins; November 08, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 1 November 2020: Five Things Bugging Me in Western Russia Coverage
16 mins; November 07, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 15: In conversation with Anna Arutunyan, on sanctions, calling Putin's bluff, and various bunches of guys
41 mins; October 24, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 14: The Kremlin, Will and Empire; and, A Fistful of Books #1
38 mins; October 10, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 29 September 2020: A Week in the life of Sergei Naryshkin
9 mins; October 05, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 13: The GRU, and why is it so hard to leave Putin?
34 mins; September 26, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 19 September 2020: Questioning Less about Navalny
14 mins; September 19, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 12: Drift in Russian Politics and the Decay of the 'Hybrid Regime'; on Cheating, in dissertations, politics and the underworld
27 mins; September 12, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 6 September 2020: Belarus's Strongmen
12 mins; September 11, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 11: On Power and its perceived absence: the National Guard, the European Union
26 mins; August 30, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 22 August 2020: #Navalny
9 mins; August 29, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 19 August 2020: Belarus, Russia and the Information War
10 mins; August 19, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 11 August 2020: Russia and Belarus
10 mins; August 13, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 10: Russian Influence, Soft Power and Dark Power
28 mins; August 08, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 9: Thrones of Bayonets (and hacking coronavirus research)
32 mins; July 20, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 8: Serebrennikov, Miniakhmetov and Set' and the 'Three Russias'
27 mins; July 05, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 7: Technocrats and Cultural Warriors, and Why I'd Vote No In the Constitutional Plebiscite
24 mins; June 22, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 6: The Most Dangerous Man in Russia
23 mins; June 14, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 7 June 2020: A Plot in Prague, The Murders That Weren't
9 mins; June 14, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 5: Disinformation (and deep-cover spies and Libya)
27 mins; June 02, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 25 May 2020: Gangsters, SMEs and Covid economic policy
6 mins; June 01, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 4: Vorontsov, Police Protests and Community Action (plus 'late Putinism', spooks and Western policy)
39 mins; May 18, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 3: Victory Day, National Myths and Patron's Questions
38 mins; May 09, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 2: Mishustin, Sechin, Institutional vs Personal Power
32 mins; May 02, 2020
In Moscow's Shadows 1: Coronavirus, Sobyanin, Social Contracts and Big Len
40 mins; April 25, 2020
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