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...
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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...
The gift of tongues isn't what your church or synagogue is saying that it is.
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...
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