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In Moscow's Shadows

Mark Galeotti

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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 101: Phoney Wars and Rising Stars

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May 28, 202349:30pending

In Moscow's Shadows 100: All the News That's Fit to Print (in Rossiiskaya Gazeta...

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May 14, 202334:27pending

In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becomi...

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May 7, 202345:52pending

In Moscow's Shadows 98: Dogs of War (and Racoons)

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Apr 29, 202354:13pending

In Moscow's Shadows 97: Where Are They Now?

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Apr 22, 202347:48pending

In Moscow's Shadows 96: Of Leaks and Lengths

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Apr 16, 202349:05pending

In Moscow's Shadows 95: Tatarsky, Gershkovich, Patrushev and Guns

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Apr 4, 202356:53pending

In Moscow's Shadows 94: What do you do with a problem like Medvedev?

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Mar 26, 202346:26pending

In Moscow's Shadows 93: Oligarchs and Judges

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Mar 19, 202344:30pending

In Moscow's Shadows 92: Everyone's Got an Agenda: Hungary, China, Neo-Nazis, Kad...

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Mar 5, 202355:31pending

In Moscow's Shadows 91: Russian Fantasies - Putin's address to the nation and th...

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Feb 11, 202353:00pending

In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the...

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Feb 5, 202350:39pending

In Moscow's Shadows 89: Tanks, the New Patriotic War and the Strelkov-Prigozhin...

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Jan 29, 202357:05pending

In Moscow's Shadows 88: Enter Gerasimov

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Jan 12, 202347:22pending

In Moscow's Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin's New Year's Address

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Jan 1, 202354:57pending

In Moscow's Shadows 86: Russian Rumours and Cognitive Biases

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Dec 10, 202235:54pending

In Moscow's Shadows 85: War and Peace (and how both are changing)

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Dec 4, 202255:27pending

In Moscow's Shadows 84: Putin the History (Abuse) Man

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Nov 20, 202259:59pending

In Moscow's Shadows 83: Putin's decision-making; and Russian organised crime aft...

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Nov 13, 202254:27pending

In Moscow's Shadows 82: What Prigozhin Wants, What Putin Believes, and Why Russi...

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Nov 6, 202253:01pending

In Moscow's Shadows 81: A Sampling of the Latest News; and the Russo-Chinese Int...

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Oct 30, 202239:42pending

In Moscow's Shadows 80: Annexations, Mobilisations, Martial Law and More

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Oct 22, 202259:41pending

In Moscow's Shadows 79: Putin's Dilemmas, on and off the battlefield

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Sep 16, 202244:08pending

In Moscow's Shadows 78: Organised Labour in a Neoliberal and Authoritarian Russi...

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Sep 5, 202236:29pending

In Moscow's Shadows 77: Gorbachev's Hope vs Putin's Victimhood, a short ruminati...

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Sep 1, 202217:24pending

In Moscow's Shadows 76: The Impotence of Power and Giving Liz Truss some options...

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Aug 28, 202258:27pending

In Moscow's Shadows 75: Shoigu and Power under Putinism-Patrushevism

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Aug 15, 202253:52pending

In Moscow's Shadows 74: Putinism-Patrushevism

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Jul 31, 202249:50pending

In Moscow's Shadows 73: From Liberal Politics to Boris Johnson's Departure, answ...

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Jul 17, 202259:02pending

In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin

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Jul 10, 202255:06pending

In Moscow's Shadows 71: Russia, Ukraine and beyond - another miscellany

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Jul 2, 202258:39pending

In Moscow's Shadows 70: A Miscellany - Being Banned, Putin and Lavrov Speak Out,...

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Jun 18, 202246:54pending

In Moscow's Shadows 69: A Bargain-Basement Empire in the Offing, and Who Is Serg...

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Jun 13, 202251:22pending

In Moscow's Shadows 68: No, Russia isn't winning in Ukraine, and no, there's no...

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May 29, 202245:50pending

In Moscow's Shadows 67: Why September is the Month to Watch, and 'Putin, Ukraine...

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May 18, 202246:39pending

In Moscow's Shadows 66: Silovik, Nuclear, Criminal and Religious - a Choice of V...

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May 1, 202253:58pending

In Moscow's Shadows 65: Fabian Burkhardt on Russia's Elites, Coups and Rumours

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Apr 22, 20221:04:34pending

In Moscow's Shadows 64: Dvornikov, Mishustin, Scenarios and Traitors - more abou...

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Apr 16, 202252:09pending

In Moscow's Shadows 63: Terrible Crimes, Terrible Rulers, Terrible Dilemmas

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Apr 3, 202228:23pending

In Moscow's Shadows 62: Ukraine: A New Strategy, An Absent Shoigu, An Angry Nati...

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Mar 26, 202229:09pending

In Moscow's Shadows 61: Ukraine: When Autocracy meets Technocracy - Putin's War,...

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Mar 12, 202246:32pending

In Moscow's Shadows 60: Ukraine: Nuclear Options, National Morale, and How Kyiv...

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Feb 27, 202231:02pending

In Moscow's Shadows 59: Imagining a Ukrainian peace deal

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Feb 20, 202231:54pending

In Moscow's Shadows 58: Ukrainian thoughts, welcome to stagnation, and more 2022...

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Feb 14, 202232:32pending

In Moscow's Shadows 57: Who's Trapping Whom on Ukraine, and some 2022 Prediction...

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Jan 30, 202252:30pending

Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (6): A Christmas Scandal

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Jan 28, 202211:14pending

Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 24 December 2021: Dmitry Mironov

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Jan 24, 202213:16pending

In Moscow's Shadows 56: Jaw-Jaw so Far, not War-War (brief thoughts on the state...

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Jan 22, 202222:41pending

Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (7): Russia’s Planet Business in 2022

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Jan 12, 202214:50pending

In Moscow's Shadows 55: Kazakhstan, through the Russian lens

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Jan 9, 202239:16pending