In Moscow's Shadows
Russia, behind the headlines as well as in the shadows. This podcast is the audio counterpart to Mark Galeotti's blog of the same name, a place where "one of the most informed and provocative voices on modern Russia", can talk about Russia historical and (more often) contemporary, discuss new books and research, and sometimes talk to other Russia-watchers. If you'd like to keep the podcast coming and generally support my work, or want to ask questions or suggest topics for me to cover, do please...
Episodes (269)
In Moscow's Shadows 199: the General in GenPop
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In Moscow's Shadows 198: War (in Russia's underworld) and Peace (in Ukraine)?
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In Moscow's Shadows 197: Russia's future fascist turn?
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In Moscow's Shadows 196: Space, the Failing Frontier
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In Moscow's Shadows 195: Q&A, Part 2
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In Moscow's Shadows 194: Q&A, Part 1
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In Moscow's Shadows 193: Mishustin's Annual Report: what he says, what he doesn'...
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In Moscow's Shadows 192: What if Ukraine could join the EU in months, not years?
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In Moscow's Shadows 191: How is Russian Foreign Policy Made?
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In Moscow's Shadows 190: Sanctions, Spies, and Suspect Legitimacy
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In Moscow's Shadows 189: Oval Office Mugging and Russia's Police in Crisis
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In Moscow's Shadows 188: War and Peace and Trump
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In Moscow's Shadows 187: Tatarstan
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In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Ukrainskii Sindrom
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In Moscow's Shadows 186: Why is Putin's Russia so Prone to Conspiracy Theories?
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In Moscow's Shadows 185: The One With All The Stuff
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In Moscow's Shadows 184: One Hundred Years of Companionship?
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In Moscow's Shadows 183: War and Peace (and Public Opinion)
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In Moscow's Shadows 182: Things To Watch in 2025
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In Moscow's Shadows 181: Strap in for a Bumpy 2025
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In Moscow's Shadows 180: Keep Calm and Carry On
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In Moscow's Shadows 179: Sex, Drugs & Rocky Roads
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In Moscow's Shadows 178: Assad la vista, baby - what does Damascus's fall mean f...
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In Moscow's Shadows 177: Adaptation in Russia and Ukraine
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In Moscow's Shadows 176: Is Andrei Belousov the Lavrov of the Defence Ministry?
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In Moscow's Shadows 175: 'In a dangerous world, strike first' - Russian strategi...
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In Moscow's Shadows 174: Putin, Trump, and the 'Polyphonic' world order
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In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin
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In Moscow's Shadows 172: BRICS without Straw
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In Moscow's Shadows bonus minipodcast: North Koreans in Russia?
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In Moscow's Shadows 171: The invisible and invidious Sergei Korolev, perhaps the...
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In Moscow's Shadows 170: The Opposition Soap Opera
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In Moscow's Shadows 169: The GUSP, the most secret of Russia's secret services
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In Moscow's Shadows 168: Putin Wants Us To Have Nuclear Nightmares
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In Moscow's Shadows 167: Shoigu Redux
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In Moscow's Shadows 166: Raider Nation, a quick news round-up
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In Moscow's Shadows 165: Prince Bogdoi, Information Logjams and Public-Private E...
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In Moscow's Shadows 164: From Ballots to Babies, a quick news round-up
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In Moscow's Shadows 163: The Importance of Optimism (even when it comes to Russi...
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In Moscow's Shadows 162: Lavrov's (Living) Obituary
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In Moscow's Shadows 161: What's Going On in Russian Prisons?
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In Moscow's Shadows 160: Kursk as Political Actor and Allegory
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In Moscow's Shadows 159: The Kursk Incursion
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In Moscow's Shadows 158: A Hectic Week in Russia
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In Moscow's Shadows 157: No Crime and Much Punishment: the Gershkovich Case and...
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In Moscow's Shadows 156: Are Putin's Praetorians up to the challenges of the fut...
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In Moscow's Shadows 155: Putin's Shadow War on the West
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In Moscow's Shadows 154: What (if anything) does the Labour Party victory in the...
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In Moscow's Shadows 153: Geopolitics, Nepotism, Terror and Assassination... (all...
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In Moscow's Shadows 152: Prigozhin's Mutiny, One Year On
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