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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?

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In Moscow's Shadows 242: Igor Sechin, Sharpening Putin's Pencils for 30 Years

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In Moscow's Shadows 241: When Attack Dogs Turn

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In Moscow's Shadows 240: Frankenstein's Putinism

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In Moscow's Shadows 239: Wars Foreign and Domestic

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In Moscow's Shadows 238: Bangers and Mish

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In Moscow's Shadows 237: How A 1552 Siege Explains A 2022 Invasion

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In Moscow's Shadows 236: What Is Russia?

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In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Rebel Russia

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In Moscow's Shadows 235: From a GRU to a Kill

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In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: How Putin Is Protected

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In Moscow's Shadows 234: PACE’s Picks, Ukraine’s Grid, Russia’s Corruption

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In Moscow's Shadows 233: News, from Abu Dhabi to Kamchatka; and Chechnya After Kadyrov

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In Moscow's Shadows 232: the Black Priest vs the Death Cult

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In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine

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In Moscow's Shadows 230: The Rise and Fall of a Chechen Gang

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In Moscow's Shadows 229: Heroes and Villains

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In Moscow's Shadows 228: Blood & Soil versus Bread & Butter

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In Moscow's Shadows 227: It's War! (within the emigre opposition, at least)

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In Moscow's Shadows 226: Monsters in the Woods

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In Moscow's Shadows 225: A Chance for Peace in Ukraine?

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In Moscow's Shadows 224: In Helsinki's (and Kyiv's) Shadows

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In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin, Who... or What?

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In Moscow's Shadows 222: Are We Seeing A New Putin?

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In Moscow's Shadows 221: Is the Sun Rising over Russo-Japanese Relations?

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In Moscow's Shadows 220: Power Politics in the FSB and a new 'Most Dangerous Man in Russia'?

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In Moscow's Shadows 219: Decoding Putin in Valdai

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In Moscow's Shadows 218: Putin, the Blunderer-in-Chief?

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In Moscow's Shadows 217: MiGs in Estonian skies, exercises on Poland's borders - a threat to Europe?

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In Moscow's Shadows 216: What Security Guarantees for Ukraine Might Work?

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In Moscow's Shadows 215: A Tale of Two Coups

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In Moscow's Shadows 214: Law and Lawlessness in Late Putinism (or, Late Brezhnevism redux)

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In Moscow's Shadows 213: Foreign Agents in Russia, Foreigners in Ukraine...

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In Moscow's Shadows 212: War and Peace and Alaska

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In Moscow's Shadows 211: Trump, Putin, Alaska...

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In Moscow's Shadows 210: Is Russia Being Sentenced To The Digital Gulag?

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In Moscow's Shadows 209: Eagle, Dragon, Bear - how the Ukraine war drives Moscow into Beijing's orbit

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In Moscow's Shadows 208: 5 Million Downloads and Counting! A Q&A Compilation

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In Moscow's Shadows 207: What Is Going On Between Baku and Moscow?

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In Moscow's Shadows 206: Corruption, Putinism's Achilles' Heel

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In Moscow's Shadows 205: The Peace Crisis that faces Russia after the Ukraine War

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In Moscow's Shadows 204: The Opportunity and the Threat, Moscow and Iran, Moscow and the West

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In Moscow's Shadows 203: Can Putin Afford To End The War?

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In Moscow's Shadows 202: What Is This Resilience Thing Anyway?

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In Moscow's Shadows 201: Peacetalkers and Warfighters

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In Moscow's Shadows 200: Victory Day (whose?)

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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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