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In Moscow's Shadows — 286 episodes · page 3 of 3
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