In Moscow's Shadows
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In Moscow's Shadows is a news podcast hosted by Mark Galeotti. It has 265 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
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/InMoscowsShadowsThe 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 243: Who Controls The Story In Russia?
In Moscow's Shadows 242: Igor Sechin, Sharpening Putin's Pencils for 30 Years
In Moscow's Shadows 241: When Attack Dogs Turn
In Moscow's Shadows 240: Frankenstein's Putinism
In Moscow's Shadows 239: Wars Foreign and Domestic
In Moscow's Shadows 238: Bangers and Mish
In Moscow's Shadows 237: How A 1552 Siege Explains A 2022 Invasion
In Moscow's Shadows 236: What Is Russia?
In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Rebel Russia
In Moscow's Shadows 235: From a GRU to a Kill
In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: How Putin Is Protected
In Moscow's Shadows 234: PACE’s Picks, Ukraine’s Grid, Russia’s Corruption
In Moscow's Shadows 233: News, from Abu Dhabi to Kamchatka; and Chechnya After Kadyrov
In Moscow's Shadows 232: the Black Priest vs the Death Cult
In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 230: The Rise and Fall of a Chechen Gang
In Moscow's Shadows 229: Heroes and Villains
In Moscow's Shadows 228: Blood & Soil versus Bread & Butter
In Moscow's Shadows 227: It's War! (within the emigre opposition, at least)
In Moscow's Shadows 226: Monsters in the Woods
In Moscow's Shadows 225: A Chance for Peace in Ukraine?
In Moscow's Shadows 224: In Helsinki's (and Kyiv's) Shadows
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin, Who... or What?
In Moscow's Shadows 222: Are We Seeing A New Putin?
In Moscow's Shadows 221: Is the Sun Rising over Russo-Japanese Relations?
In Moscow's Shadows 220: Power Politics in the FSB and a new 'Most Dangerous Man in Russia'?
In Moscow's Shadows 219: Decoding Putin in Valdai
In Moscow's Shadows 218: Putin, the Blunderer-in-Chief?
In Moscow's Shadows 217: MiGs in Estonian skies, exercises on Poland's borders - a threat to Europe?
In Moscow's Shadows 216: What Security Guarantees for Ukraine Might Work?
In Moscow's Shadows 215: A Tale of Two Coups
In Moscow's Shadows 214: Law and Lawlessness in Late Putinism (or, Late Brezhnevism redux)
In Moscow's Shadows 213: Foreign Agents in Russia, Foreigners in Ukraine...
In Moscow's Shadows 212: War and Peace and Alaska
In Moscow's Shadows 211: Trump, Putin, Alaska...
In Moscow's Shadows 210: Is Russia Being Sentenced To The Digital Gulag?
In Moscow's Shadows 209: Eagle, Dragon, Bear - how the Ukraine war drives Moscow into Beijing's orbit
In Moscow's Shadows 208: 5 Million Downloads and Counting! A Q&A Compilation
In Moscow's Shadows 207: What Is Going On Between Baku and Moscow?
In Moscow's Shadows 206: Corruption, Putinism's Achilles' Heel
In Moscow's Shadows 205: The Peace Crisis that faces Russia after the Ukraine War
In Moscow's Shadows 204: The Opportunity and the Threat, Moscow and Iran, Moscow and the West
In Moscow's Shadows 203: Can Putin Afford To End The War?
In Moscow's Shadows 202: What Is This Resilience Thing Anyway?
In Moscow's Shadows 201: Peacetalkers and Warfighters
In Moscow's Shadows 200: Victory Day (whose?)
In Moscow's Shadows 199: the General in GenPop
In Moscow's Shadows 198: War (in Russia's underworld) and Peace (in Ukraine)?
In Moscow's Shadows 197: Russia's future fascist turn?
In Moscow's Shadows 196: Space, the Failing Frontier
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