The Naked Pravda
Meduza’s English-language podcast, The Naked Pravda highlights how our top reporting intersects with the wider research and expertise that exists about Russia. The broader context of Meduza’s in-depth, original journalism isn’t always clear, which is where this show comes in. Here you’ll hear from the world’s community of Russia experts, activists, and reporters about issues that are at the heart of Meduza’s stories and crucial to major events in and around Russia.
Episodes (189)
Lucian Kim explains how a generational clash over Soviet nostalgia enabled Russi...
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Unpacking the economics behind Russia’s military recruitment machine, with resea...
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Russia has crushed open defiance in occupied Ukraine. Scholar Jade McGlynn expla...
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What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at...
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Historian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘re...
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Is Trump’s Venezuela operation a ‘gift to Putin,’ and what is the state of Russi...
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Moscow Times opinion editor Charlie Hancock discusses the challenges of commissi...
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Pavel Durov’s Russian biographer explains the tech-bro feudalism that drives Tel...
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Simon Shuster on the fall of Andriy Yermak
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Andrei Sannikov on Lukashenko’s latest gambit — and why the West keeps taking th...
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Russia’s elites once dreaded war. Now, they fear peace.
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Elena Kostyuchenko explains why E.U. multiple-entry visas were so crucial for Ru...
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Julia Ioffe’s ‘Motherland’
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Four scenarios for the next chapter in Russia’s war against Ukraine
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Here’s what you do when Russia won’t stay out of your airspace
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Joshua Yaffa explains how Donald Trump got NATO to pay up
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Pulitzer-winner Benjamin Nathans on the Soviet dissident movement’s ‘many lives’
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Everyday politics in Russia with Jeremy Morris
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Jill Dougherty’s Russia
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The banking scandal that broke Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition
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Moldova’s knife-edge election and E.U. referendum
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How Russian propaganda and ordinary Americans build ‘bespoke realities’
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North Korea's role in the Ukraine War
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Breaking down Russia's 2025 war budget
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The North Caucasian clan warfare behind a deadly dispute at Wildberries, ‘Russia...
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America's expanding crackdown on RT and Moscow's covert influence operations
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Iranian ballistic missiles have entered the Ukraine War chat
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The science of Russian Internet censorship and surveillance
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Russian conscripts and Ukraine's Kursk offensive
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The long-term economic effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine
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How can Ukraine hold the line against Russia?
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Kazakhstan's landmark murder trial
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‘The American faith’: Why Russia targets evangelicals in Ukraine
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Corruption and co-optation in Russia’s autocracy
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How Russian disinformation really threatens the USA
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Returning to the talks that could have ended the war in Ukraine
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How Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov dies
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Migration and discrimination in Putin’s Russia
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The evolution of the Russian FSB
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Daniel Roher and Julia Ioffe remember the Navalnys
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How terrorism’s geopolitics brought tragedy to Moscow
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Is Europe preparing for a wider Russian invasion?
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Politico’s Alex Ward on Biden’s Russia and Ukraine policy
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The Russian space nukes scare
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Christopher Miller on how war came to Ukraine
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The death of Alexey Navalny
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Yandex’s restructuring and the future of Kremlin tech control
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How Russia targets its critics abroad in wartime
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How doomed presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin rallied antiwar Russians
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Why hasn’t the West seized Russia’s frozen sovereign assets?
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