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In Moscow's Shadows — 267 episodes
In Moscow's Shadows 247: Victory Day Without The Victory
In Moscow's Shadows 246: Is Russia A Great Power?
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
In Moscow's Shadows 195: Q&A, Part 2
In Moscow's Shadows 194: Q&A, Part 1
In Moscow's Shadows 193: Mishustin's Annual Report: what he says, what he doesn't
In Moscow's Shadows 192: What if Ukraine could join the EU in months, not years?
In Moscow's Shadows 191: How is Russian Foreign Policy Made?
In Moscow's Shadows 190: Sanctions, Spies, and Suspect Legitimacy
In Moscow's Shadows 189: Oval Office Mugging and Russia's Police in Crisis
In Moscow's Shadows 188: War and Peace and Trump
In Moscow's Shadows 187: Tatarstan
In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Ukrainskii Sindrom
In Moscow's Shadows 186: Why is Putin's Russia so Prone to Conspiracy Theories?
In Moscow's Shadows 185: The One With All The Stuff
In Moscow's Shadows 184: One Hundred Years of Companionship?
In Moscow's Shadows 183: War and Peace (and Public Opinion)
In Moscow's Shadows 182: Things To Watch in 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 181: Strap in for a Bumpy 2025
In Moscow's Shadows 180: Keep Calm and Carry On
In Moscow's Shadows 179: Sex, Drugs & Rocky Roads
In Moscow's Shadows 178: Assad la vista, baby - what does Damascus's fall mean for Russia?
In Moscow's Shadows 177: Adaptation in Russia and Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 176: Is Andrei Belousov the Lavrov of the Defence Ministry?
In Moscow's Shadows 175: 'In a dangerous world, strike first' - Russian strategic culture
In Moscow's Shadows 174: Putin, Trump, and the 'Polyphonic' world order
In Moscow's Shadows 173: Personalistic Power under Putin
In Moscow's Shadows 172: BRICS without Straw
In Moscow's Shadows bonus minipodcast: North Koreans in Russia?
In Moscow's Shadows 171: The invisible and invidious Sergei Korolev, perhaps the next head of the FSB
In Moscow's Shadows 170: The Opposition Soap Opera
In Moscow's Shadows 169: The GUSP, the most secret of Russia's secret services
In Moscow's Shadows 168: Putin Wants Us To Have Nuclear Nightmares
In Moscow's Shadows 167: Shoigu Redux
In Moscow's Shadows 166: Raider Nation, a quick news round-up
In Moscow's Shadows 165: Prince Bogdoi, Information Logjams and Public-Private Empire
In Moscow's Shadows 164: From Ballots to Babies, a quick news round-up
In Moscow's Shadows 163: The Importance of Optimism (even when it comes to Russia)
In Moscow's Shadows 162: Lavrov's (Living) Obituary
In Moscow's Shadows 161: What's Going On in Russian Prisons?
In Moscow's Shadows 160: Kursk as Political Actor and Allegory
In Moscow's Shadows 159: The Kursk Incursion
In Moscow's Shadows 158: A Hectic Week in Russia
In Moscow's Shadows 157: No Crime and Much Punishment: the Gershkovich Case and recent books on Russia's prisons
In Moscow's Shadows 156: Are Putin's Praetorians up to the challenges of the future?
In Moscow's Shadows 155: Putin's Shadow War on the West
In Moscow's Shadows 154: What (if anything) does the Labour Party victory in the UK mean for Ukraine and Russia?
In Moscow's Shadows 153: Geopolitics, Nepotism, Terror and Assassination... (all the nice things)
In Moscow's Shadows 152: Prigozhin's Mutiny, One Year On
In Moscow's Shadows 151: From Switzerland to SMERSH
In Moscow's Shadows 150: An Unfunny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
In Moscow's Shadows 149: Dyumin, Deterrence and a Deputy
In Moscow's Shadows 148: 'Purging' the Military; the politics of anti-corruption in a corrupt system
In Moscow's Shadows 147: The Reshuffle, Or Change To Preserve Things As They Are
In Moscow's Shadows 146: Britain and Russia, Eternal Frenemies
In Moscow's Shadows 145: How Corruption Works Under Putin
In Moscow's Shadows 144: Of Talks and Thugs
In Moscow's Shadows 143: Of MICE and Man
In Moscow's Shadows 142: Heresies and Revolutions
In Moscow's Shadows 141: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (kinda)
In Moscow's Shadows 140: Terrorism and Totalitarianism
In Moscow's Shadows 139: Why Even Sham Elections Can Matter
In Moscow's Shadows 138: Gangster Geopolitics
In Moscow's Shadows 137: They Pretend To Lead Us, We Pretend To Believe
In Moscow's Shadows 136: Avenging Navalny
In Moscow's Shadows 135: Navalny in the late Soviet Union
In Moscow's Shadows 134: Kaliningrad still at the Crossroads
In Moscow's Shadows 133: Books on Russia, Books on Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 132: A View from the Provinces
In Moscow's Shadows 131: European Strategy and Vorobyov's Prospects
In Moscow's Shadows 130: Questions I Can't Answer
In Moscow's Shadows 129: It's All About Putin's Eggs
In Moscow's Shadows 128: Politics, War and Lunacy - a look forward to 2024
In Moscow's Shadows 127: When Napoleon was Nuked and Other Russian Conspiracy Theories
In Moscow's Shadows 126: Truth and Tedium in Putin's Marathon Town Hall and the Russian Press
In Moscow's Shadows 125: Putin's Coming Back! And So's the Cold War?
In Moscow's Shadows 124: Putin's Performative Politics
In Moscow's Shadows 123: Russia's 'Red-Brown' Leftists, and How I Became A Voice of the West
In Moscow's Shadows 122: Taking on Conventional Wisdom About Putin
In Moscow's Shadows 121: Making Sense of Makhachkala
In Moscow's Shadows 120: Putin is Dead! (well, probably not)
In Moscow's Shadows 119: Manifestos to the Left of me, Manifestos to the Right
In Moscow's Shadows 118: Clueless in Gaza - Russia and the current Middle East crisis
In Moscow's Shadows 117: Security Politics and the President Who Can't Change His Spots
In Moscow's Shadows 116: Putin's "Forever War" (which isn't)
In Moscow's Shadows 115: Kadyrov and the Conflict Entrepreneurs
In Moscow's Shadows 114: Six of the Best (?)
In Moscow's Shadows 113: And Goodnight Wagner?
In Moscow's Shadows 112: Goodbye Prigozhin
In Moscow's Shadows 111: A Nervous Kremlin and a Neglected Police Force
In Moscow's Shadows 110: Why Navalny Doesn't Hate The Goat
In Moscow's Shadows 109: A Tale of Two Last Wars, Afghanistan and Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 108: Where Have All The Generals Gone?
In Moscow's Shadows 107: Where Are We Now On Prigozhin's Mutiny?
In Moscow's Shadows 106: The Spooky Side of Prigozhin's Mutiny
In Moscow's Shadows 105: Prigozhin's Mutiny
In Moscow's Shadows 104: Paranormal Putinism
In Moscow's Shadows 103: The Rise of the Princeling Patrushev, the Grey Cardigan
In Moscow's Shadows 102: The Wolf that Only Howls: the Chechens in Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 101: Phoney Wars and Rising Stars
In Moscow's Shadows 100: All the News That's Fit to Print (in Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical
In Moscow's Shadows 98: Dogs of War (and Racoons)
In Moscow's Shadows 97: Where Are They Now?
In Moscow's Shadows 96: Of Leaks and Lengths
In Moscow's Shadows 95: Tatarsky, Gershkovich, Patrushev and Guns
In Moscow's Shadows 94: What do you do with a problem like Medvedev?
In Moscow's Shadows 93: Oligarchs and Judges
In Moscow's Shadows 92: Everyone's Got an Agenda: Hungary, China, Neo-Nazis, Kadyrov, Anime Fans...
In Moscow's Shadows 91: Russian Fantasies - Putin's address to the nation and the lessons from Russian science fiction
In Moscow's Shadows 90: A Murder in Donbas Evokes the 90s and Putin Cosplays the 40s
In Moscow's Shadows 89: Tanks, the New Patriotic War and the Strelkov-Prigozhin Spat
In Moscow's Shadows 88: Enter Gerasimov
In Moscow's Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin's New Year's Address
In Moscow's Shadows 86: Russian Rumours and Cognitive Biases
In Moscow's Shadows 85: War and Peace (and how both are changing)
In Moscow's Shadows 84: Putin the History (Abuse) Man
In Moscow's Shadows 83: Putin's decision-making; and Russian organised crime after the invasion
In Moscow's Shadows 82: What Prigozhin Wants, What Putin Believes, and Why Russia Might Create its own Bureau 39
In Moscow's Shadows 81: A Sampling of the Latest News; and the Russo-Chinese Intelligence Relationship
In Moscow's Shadows 80: Annexations, Mobilisations, Martial Law and More
In Moscow's Shadows 79: Putin's Dilemmas, on and off the battlefield
In Moscow's Shadows 78: Organised Labour in a Neoliberal and Authoritarian Russia
In Moscow's Shadows 77: Gorbachev's Hope vs Putin's Victimhood, a short rumination
In Moscow's Shadows 76: The Impotence of Power and Giving Liz Truss some options for Narrative Warfare
In Moscow's Shadows 75: Shoigu and Power under Putinism-Patrushevism
In Moscow's Shadows 74: Putinism-Patrushevism
In Moscow's Shadows 73: From Liberal Politics to Boris Johnson's Departure, answers to more listener questions
In Moscow's Shadows 72: A Tale of Two Colonels, Strelkov and Putin
In Moscow's Shadows 71: Russia, Ukraine and beyond - another miscellany
In Moscow's Shadows 70: A Miscellany - Being Banned, Putin and Lavrov Speak Out, Divisions in the Elite and Listeners' Questions
In Moscow's Shadows 69: A Bargain-Basement Empire in the Offing, and Who Is Sergei Kirienko?
In Moscow's Shadows 68: No, Russia isn't winning in Ukraine, and no, there's no coup imminent...
In Moscow's Shadows 67: Why September is the Month to Watch, and 'Putin, Ukraine and the Revenge of History'
In Moscow's Shadows 66: Silovik, Nuclear, Criminal and Religious - a Choice of Victories
In Moscow's Shadows 65: Fabian Burkhardt on Russia's Elites, Coups and Rumours
In Moscow's Shadows 64: Dvornikov, Mishustin, Scenarios and Traitors - more about Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 63: Terrible Crimes, Terrible Rulers, Terrible Dilemmas
In Moscow's Shadows 62: Ukraine: A New Strategy, An Absent Shoigu, An Angry National Guard and a Medieval Lithuanian Comparison
In Moscow's Shadows 61: Ukraine: When Autocracy meets Technocracy - Putin's War, Info War, Spook War
In Moscow's Shadows 60: Ukraine: Nuclear Options, National Morale, and How Kyiv Can Save Moscow
In Moscow's Shadows 59: Imagining a Ukrainian peace deal
In Moscow's Shadows 58: Ukrainian thoughts, welcome to stagnation, and more 2022 predictions
In Moscow's Shadows 57: Who's Trapping Whom on Ukraine, and some 2022 Predictions for Russia
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (6): A Christmas Scandal
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 24 December 2021: Dmitry Mironov
In Moscow's Shadows 56: Jaw-Jaw so Far, not War-War (brief thoughts on the state of play)
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas 2021-22 (7): Russia’s Planet Business in 2022
In Moscow's Shadows 55: Kazakhstan, through the Russian lens
In Moscow's Shadows 54: Naughty or Nice? What 2022 May Hold For Russia's Rulers
In Moscow's Shadows 53: Trick or Treaties - Russia's proposals to 'resolve' the current crisis
In Moscow's Shadows 52: Nightmares before Christmas? Ukraine and the Russian underworld
In Moscow's Shadows 51: Ukraine, Prisons, Legitimacy and Lombards...
In Moscow's Shadows 50: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus and Ukraine
In Moscow's Shadows 49: Survivalism in Russia. And cheese.
In Moscow's Shadows 48: What can you learn from Tula? On Russian provincial life and politics, Governor Dyumin, and busses
In Moscow's Shadows 47: Postcards from Moscow
In Moscow's Shadows 46: New 'Foreign Agent' restrictions and 'Hybrid Warfare'
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
In Moscow's Shadows 44: As above, so below - a prison riot in Kamchatka and a society looking to a sanitised past for hope
In Moscow's Shadows 43: Poklonskaya, Ethnic Rumbles and Naryshkin's Claims to be Putin's Mate
In Moscow's Shadows 42: Moscow's Afghan Worries, and the Trouble with Predictions
In Moscow's Shadows 41: The Communist Party Embattled...And Occultism and Russian Politics
In Moscow's Shadows 40: 'Mishustinism' and 'Kozakisation' - the adventures of technocrats in Moscow and the Donbas
In Moscow's Shadows 39: Putin's latest article on Ukraine and his attempt to place himself on the right side of history
In Moscow's Shadows 38: The topic I never thought I'd address: Sport
In Moscow's Shadows 37: Direct Line and the Politics behind Politics; and Wars in Afghanistan Compared
In Moscow's Shadows 36: Good News/Bad News: The Geneva Summit and Coronavirus on the Rise
In Moscow's Shadows 35: Crackdown, Belarus, HMS Defender and the Putin-Biden Summit
In Moscow's Shadows 34: Belarus, of course
In Moscow's Shadows 33: The Russian Orthodox Church PLC; and No Country For Old Securocrats
In Moscow's Shadows 32: Victory Day and Memory Politics, and the Kremlin in WW2
In Moscow's Shadows 31: Navalny, Patrushev, Orban, and more [RELOADED]
In Moscow's Shadows 30: The (Czech) Lion that Roared
In Moscow's Shadows 29: Is Russia Declining, and Is Putin's Handsome?
In Moscow's Shadows 28: The LDPR: Paralunatic Wing of United Russia
In Moscow's Shadows 27: Men of Force and Forceful Language
In Moscow's Shadows 26: Moscow's Marvels, and Mob Murder
In Moscow's Shadows 25: Navalny in Prison
In Moscow's Shadows 24: Scenarios for Russia after Navalny, and Dzerzhinsky vs Nevsky [reloaded]
In Moscow's Shadows 23: Is Navalny the best thing that ever happened to Putinism? Russia's 'Stolypin moment'?
In Moscow's Shadows 22: The Morning After A Hot Day in Russia
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 18 January 2021: What does the Kremlin do with Navalny?
In Moscow's Shadows 21: The Federal Protection Service (FSO) and Russian security politics; and Three Stories About the Opposition
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 4 January: Kulikovo, 1380 to 2021
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 1 January: Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 28 December: Directorate K and the FSB's dilemma
Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas: 25 December: Afghan Christmas
In Moscow's Shadows 20: Spooks: more Navalny, will the FSB change tack, and did the SVR carry out a 'cyberattack'?
In Moscow's Shadows 19: The Navalny Hit (after the Bellingcat/Insider report)
In Moscow's Shadows 18: Life in the Communist Party? And Three Random Stories
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 24 November 2020: Konstantin Malofeev and his Tsargrad party - a potential threat to the Kremlin from the right?
In Moscow's Shadows 17: Russian Gangsters; and Kadyrov and Captain America
In Moscow's Shadows 16: The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR): and Is Putin Ill? (Spoiler: Probably Not)
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 1 November 2020: Five Things Bugging Me in Western Russia Coverage
In Moscow's Shadows 15: In conversation with Anna Arutunyan, on sanctions, calling Putin's bluff, and various bunches of guys
In Moscow's Shadows 14: The Kremlin, Will and Empire; and, A Fistful of Books #1
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 29 September 2020: A Week in the life of Sergei Naryshkin
In Moscow's Shadows 13: The GRU, and why is it so hard to leave Putin?
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 19 September 2020: Questioning Less about Navalny
In Moscow's Shadows 12: Drift in Russian Politics and the Decay of the 'Hybrid Regime'; on Cheating, in dissertations, politics and the underworld
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 6 September 2020: Belarus's Strongmen
In Moscow's Shadows 11: On Power and its perceived absence: the National Guard, the European Union
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 22 August 2020: #Navalny
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 19 August 2020: Belarus, Russia and the Information War
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 11 August 2020: Russia and Belarus
In Moscow's Shadows 10: Russian Influence, Soft Power and Dark Power
In Moscow's Shadows 9: Thrones of Bayonets (and hacking coronavirus research)
In Moscow's Shadows 8: Serebrennikov, Miniakhmetov and Set' and the 'Three Russias'
In Moscow's Shadows 7: Technocrats and Cultural Warriors, and Why I'd Vote No In the Constitutional Plebiscite
In Moscow's Shadows 6: The Most Dangerous Man in Russia
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 7 June 2020: A Plot in Prague, The Murders That Weren't
In Moscow's Shadows 5: Disinformation (and deep-cover spies and Libya)
In Moscow's Shadows Cellcast: 25 May 2020: Gangsters, SMEs and Covid economic policy
In Moscow's Shadows 4: Vorontsov, Police Protests and Community Action (plus 'late Putinism', spooks and Western policy)
In Moscow's Shadows 3: Victory Day, National Myths and Patron's Questions
In Moscow's Shadows 2: Mishustin, Sechin, Institutional vs Personal Power
In Moscow's Shadows 1: Coronavirus, Sobyanin, Social Contracts and Big Len