In Moscow's Shadows
By Mark Galeotti
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Dec 1, 2023
One of our top favourite podcasts. Delivered in a delightfully English wry style by a renowned expert in the field of all things Russian, especially politics. Highly recommended if you want up-to-date informed insights and analytically rigorous perspectives (unlike soc media) on what's likely going on in Russia. Political, economic and social - it's all there.
Nov 26, 2023
Dec 24, 2022
Description
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 contribute to my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/InMoscowsShadows
The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, counter-terrorism, civil affairs and similar situations.
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In Moscow's Shadows 143: Of MICE and Man
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 142: Heresies and Revolutions
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 141: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (kinda)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 140: Terrorism and Totalitarianism
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 139: Why Even Sham Elections Can Matter
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 138: Gangster Geopolitics
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 137: They Pretend To Lead Us, We Pretend To Believe
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 136: Avenging Navalny
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 135: Navalny in the late Soviet Union
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 134: Kaliningrad still at the Crossroads
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 133: Books on Russia, Books on Ukraine
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 132: A View from the Provinces
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 131: European Strategy and Vorobyov's Prospects
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 130: Questions I Can't Answer
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 129: It's All About Putin's Eggs
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 128: Politics, War and Lunacy - a look forward to 2024
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 127: When Napoleon was Nuked and Other Russian Conspiracy Theories
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 126: Truth and Tedium in Putin's Marathon Town Hall and the Russian Press
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 125: Putin's Coming Back! And So's the Cold War?
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 124: Putin's Performative Politics
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 123: Russia's 'Red-Brown' Leftists, and How I Became A Voice of the West
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 122: Taking on Conventional Wisdom About Putin
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 121: Making Sense of Makhachkala
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 120: Putin is Dead! (well, probably not)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 119: Manifestos to the Left of me, Manifestos to the Right
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 118: Clueless in Gaza - Russia and the current Middle East crisis
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 117: Security Politics and the President Who Can't Change His Spots
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 116: Putin's "Forever War" (which isn't)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 115: Kadyrov and the Conflict Entrepreneurs
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 114: Six of the Best (?)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 113: And Goodnight Wagner?
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 112: Goodbye Prigozhin
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 111: A Nervous Kremlin and a Neglected Police Force
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 110: Why Navalny Doesn't Hate The Goat
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 109: A Tale of Two Last Wars, Afghanistan and Ukraine
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 108: Where Have All The Generals Gone?
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 107: Where Are We Now On Prigozhin's Mutiny?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 106: The Spooky Side of Prigozhin's Mutiny
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 105: Prigozhin's Mutiny
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 104: Paranormal Putinism
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 103: The Rise of the Princeling Patrushev, the Grey Cardigan
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 102: The Wolf that Only Howls: the Chechens in Ukraine
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 101: Phoney Wars and Rising Stars
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May 28, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 100: All the News That's Fit to Print (in Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
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May 14, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical
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May 07, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 98: Dogs of War (and Racoons)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 97: Where Are They Now?
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 96: Of Leaks and Lengths
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 95: Tatarsky, Gershkovich, Patrushev and Guns
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 94: What do you do with a problem like Medvedev?
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 93: Oligarchs and Judges
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 92: Everyone's Got an Agenda: Hungary, China, Neo-Nazis, Kadyrov, Anime Fans...
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 91: Russian Fantasies - Putin's address to the nation and the lessons from Russian science fiction
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 89: Tanks, the New Patriotic War and the Strelkov-Prigozhin Spat
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 88: Enter Gerasimov
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin's New Year's Address
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 86: Russian Rumours and Cognitive Biases
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 85: War and Peace (and how both are changing)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 84: Putin the History (Abuse) Man
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 83: Putin's decision-making; and Russian organised crime after the invasion
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 82: What Prigozhin Wants, What Putin Believes, and Why Russia Might Create its own Bureau 39
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 81: A Sampling of the Latest News; and the Russo-Chinese Intelligence Relationship
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 80: Annexations, Mobilisations, Martial Law and More
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 79: Putin's Dilemmas, on and off the battlefield
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 78: Organised Labour in a Neoliberal and Authoritarian Russia
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 77: Gorbachev's Hope vs Putin's Victimhood, a short rumination
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 76: The Impotence of Power and Giving Liz Truss some options for Narrative Warfare
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 75: Shoigu and Power under Putinism-Patrushevism
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 74: Putinism-Patrushevism
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 73: From Liberal Politics to Boris Johnson's Departure, answers to more listener questions
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 71: Russia, Ukraine and beyond - another miscellany
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 70: A Miscellany - Being Banned, Putin and Lavrov Speak Out, Divisions in the Elite and Listeners' Questions
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 69: A Bargain-Basement Empire in the Offing, and Who Is Sergei Kirienko?
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 68: No, Russia isn't winning in Ukraine, and no, there's no coup imminent...
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May 29, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 67: Why September is the Month to Watch, and 'Putin, Ukraine and the Revenge of History'
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May 18, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 66: Silovik, Nuclear, Criminal and Religious - a Choice of Victories
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May 01, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 65: Fabian Burkhardt on Russia's Elites, Coups and Rumours
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 64: Dvornikov, Mishustin, Scenarios and Traitors - more about Ukraine
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 63: Terrible Crimes, Terrible Rulers, Terrible Dilemmas
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 62: Ukraine: A New Strategy, An Absent Shoigu, An Angry National Guard and a Medieval Lithuanian Comparison
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 61: Ukraine: When Autocracy meets Technocracy - Putin's War, Info War, Spook War
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 60: Ukraine: Nuclear Options, National Morale, and How Kyiv Can Save Moscow
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 59: Imagining a Ukrainian peace deal
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 58: Ukrainian thoughts, welcome to stagnation, and more 2022 predictions
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 57: Who's Trapping Whom on Ukraine, and some 2022 Predictions for Russia
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (6): A Christmas Scandal
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 24 December 2021: Dmitry Mironov
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 56: Jaw-Jaw so Far, not War-War (brief thoughts on the state of play)
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (7): Russia’s Planet Business in 2022
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 55: Kazakhstan, through the Russian lens
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 54: Naughty or Nice? What 2022 May Hold For Russia's Rulers
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 53: Trick or Treaties - Russia's proposals to 'resolve' the current crisis
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 52: Nightmares before Christmas? Ukraine and the Russian underworld
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 51: Ukraine, Prisons, Legitimacy and Lombards...
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 50: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus and Ukraine
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 49: Survivalism in Russia. And cheese.
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 48: What can you learn from Tula? On Russian provincial life and politics, Governor Dyumin, and busses
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 47: Postcards from Moscow
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 46: New 'Foreign Agent' restrictions and 'Hybrid Warfare'
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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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
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 44: As above, so below - a prison riot in Kamchatka and a society looking to a sanitised past for hope
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 43: Poklonskaya, Ethnic Rumbles and Naryshkin's Claims to be Putin's Mate
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 42: Moscow's Afghan Worries, and the Trouble with Predictions
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 41: The Communist Party Embattled...And Occultism and Russian Politics
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 40: 'Mishustinism' and 'Kozakisation' - the adventures of technocrats in Moscow and the Donbas
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 39: Putin's latest article on Ukraine and his attempt to place himself on the right side of history
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 38: The topic I never thought I'd address: Sport
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 37: Direct Line and the Politics behind Politics; and Wars in Afghanistan Compared
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 36: Good News/Bad News: The Geneva Summit and Coronavirus on the Rise
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 35: Crackdown, Belarus, HMS Defender and the Putin-Biden Summit
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 34: Belarus, of course
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May 27, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 33: The Russian Orthodox Church PLC; and No Country For Old Securocrats
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May 23, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 32: Victory Day and Memory Politics, and the Kremlin in WW2
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May 09, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 31: Navalny, Patrushev, Orban, and more [RELOADED]
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May 01, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 30: The (Czech) Lion that Roared
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 29: Is Russia Declining, and Is Putin's Handsome?
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 28: The LDPR: Paralunatic Wing of United Russia
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 27: Men of Force and Forceful Language
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 26: Moscow's Marvels, and Mob Murder
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 25: Navalny in Prison
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 24: Scenarios for Russia after Navalny, and Dzerzhinsky vs Nevsky [reloaded]
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 23: Is Navalny the best thing that ever happened to Putinism? Russia's 'Stolypin moment'?
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 22: The Morning After A Hot Day in Russia
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 18 January 2021: What does the Kremlin do with Navalny?
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 21: The Federal Protection Service (FSO) and Russian security politics; and Three Stories About the Opposition
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 4 January: Kulikovo, 1380 to 2021
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 1 January: Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 28 December: Directorate K and the FSB's dilemma
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 25 December: Afghan Christmas
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 20: Spooks: more Navalny, will the FSB change tack, and did the SVR carry out a 'cyberattack'?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 19: The Navalny Hit (after the Bellingcat/Insider report)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 18: Life in the Communist Party? And Three Random Stories
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 24 November 2020: Konstantin Malofeev and his Tsargrad party - a potential threat to the Kremlin from the right?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 17: Russian Gangsters; and Kadyrov and Captain America
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 16: The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR): and Is Putin Ill? (Spoiler: Probably Not)
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 1 November 2020: Five Things Bugging Me in Western Russia Coverage
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 15: In conversation with Anna Arutunyan, on sanctions, calling Putin's bluff, and various bunches of guys
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 14: The Kremlin, Will and Empire; and, A Fistful of Books #1
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 29 September 2020: A Week in the life of Sergei Naryshkin
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 13: The GRU, and why is it so hard to leave Putin?
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 19 September 2020: Questioning Less about Navalny
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 12: Drift in Russian Politics and the Decay of the 'Hybrid Regime'; on Cheating, in dissertations, politics and the underworld
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 6 September 2020: Belarus's Strongmen
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 11: On Power and its perceived absence: the National Guard, the European Union
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 22 August 2020: #Navalny
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 19 August 2020: Belarus, Russia and the Information War
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 11 August 2020: Russia and Belarus
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 10: Russian Influence, Soft Power and Dark Power
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 9: Thrones of Bayonets (and hacking coronavirus research)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 8: Serebrennikov, Miniakhmetov and Set' and the 'Three Russias'
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 7: Technocrats and Cultural Warriors, and Why I'd Vote No In the Constitutional Plebiscite
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 6: The Most Dangerous Man in Russia
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 7 June 2020: A Plot in Prague, The Murders That Weren't
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 5: Disinformation (and deep-cover spies and Libya)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 25 May 2020: Gangsters, SMEs and Covid economic policy
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 4: Vorontsov, Police Protests and Community Action (plus 'late Putinism', spooks and Western policy)
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May 18, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 3: Victory Day, National Myths and Patron's Questions
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May 09, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 2: Mishustin, Sechin, Institutional vs Personal Power
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May 02, 2020 |
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In Moscow's Shadows 1: Coronavirus, Sobyanin, Social Contracts and Big Len
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Apr 25, 2020 |