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The Naked Pravda — 189 episodes · page 1 of 2
Lucian Kim explains how a generational clash over Soviet nostalgia enabled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Unpacking the economics behind Russia’s military recruitment machine, with researcher Janis Kluge
Russia has crushed open defiance in occupied Ukraine. Scholar Jade McGlynn explains how the resistance went underground to survive.
What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at 4 a.m.? The curious case of Nomma Zarubina.
EHistorian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘revolutionary euphoria to the madness of war’
Is Trump’s Venezuela operation a ‘gift to Putin,’ and what is the state of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’?
Moscow Times opinion editor Charlie Hancock discusses the challenges of commissioning commentary on Russia amid the war in Ukraine
Pavel Durov’s Russian biographer explains the tech-bro feudalism that drives Telegram
Simon Shuster on the fall of Andriy Yermak
Andrei Sannikov on Lukashenko’s latest gambit — and why the West keeps taking the bait
Russia’s elites once dreaded war. Now, they fear peace.
Elena Kostyuchenko explains why E.U. multiple-entry visas were so crucial for Russian dissidents and journalists
Julia Ioffe’s ‘Motherland’
Four scenarios for the next chapter in Russia’s war against Ukraine
Here’s what you do when Russia won’t stay out of your airspace
Joshua Yaffa explains how Donald Trump got NATO to pay up
Pulitzer-winner Benjamin Nathans on the Soviet dissident movement’s ‘many lives’
Everyday politics in Russia with Jeremy Morris
Jill Dougherty’s Russia
The banking scandal that broke Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition
Moldova’s knife-edge election and E.U. referendum
How Russian propaganda and ordinary Americans build ‘bespoke realities’
North Korea's role in the Ukraine War
Breaking down Russia's 2025 war budget
The North Caucasian clan warfare behind a deadly dispute at Wildberries, ‘Russia’s Amazon’
America's expanding crackdown on RT and Moscow's covert influence operations
EIranian ballistic missiles have entered the Ukraine War chat
The science of Russian Internet censorship and surveillance
Russian conscripts and Ukraine's Kursk offensive
The long-term economic effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine
How can Ukraine hold the line against Russia?
Kazakhstan's landmark murder trial
‘The American faith’: Why Russia targets evangelicals in Ukraine
Corruption and co-optation in Russia’s autocracy
How Russian disinformation really threatens the USA
Returning to the talks that could have ended the war in Ukraine
How Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov dies
Migration and discrimination in Putin’s Russia
The evolution of the Russian FSB
Daniel Roher and Julia Ioffe remember the Navalnys
EHow terrorism’s geopolitics brought tragedy to Moscow
Is Europe preparing for a wider Russian invasion?
Politico’s Alex Ward on Biden’s Russia and Ukraine policy
The Russian space nukes scare
Christopher Miller on how war came to Ukraine
The death of Alexey Navalny
Yandex’s restructuring and the future of Kremlin tech control
How Russia targets its critics abroad in wartime
How doomed presidential candidate Boris Nadezhdin rallied antiwar Russians
Why hasn’t the West seized Russia’s frozen sovereign assets?
The evolution of Russia’s combat recruitment
Memories of Russia
Growing up German in Soviet Kazakhstan, with Lena Wolf
How studying Russia became a paradox
Russia’s ban on the ‘LGBT movement’
Spotlight on Georgia
How Russian comedians find the humor in exile
EHow the USSR tried to run the world
Why is anti-Semitic violence spreading in Russia’s North Caucasus?
The Russian military’s ‘torture pits’
Russian music at war
How Russia pressures Central Asian migrants into military service
‘Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict Between Russia and the West’
Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh
What’s behind Putin’s recent spate of anti-Semitic statements?
The Pegasus spyware attack on Meduza
ERussian elections after an eternity under Putin
Jade McGlynn’s ‘Russia’s War’
The Kremlin’s new history textbook
‘Goodbye, Eastern Europe’ with Jacob Mikanowski
Why Alexey Navalny matters
Loyalty and competence in Russia's armed forces
The new era of Russian business politics
Counting Russia’s 47,000 killed combatants
The danger at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
An obituary for Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group
Deteriorating trans rights in Russia
Russia’s troubled ‘green future’
Putin's private life and off-the-books family
Pegasus spyware in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict
The Russian Internet at war
Russian prisons today
Ukraine’s fight inside Russia, behind enemy lines
How the Putin regime uses the memory of WWII
What human rights activism is still possible in Russia?
Russia's history of terrorism
Rostec’s PR war on Telegram
The Russian military’s growing discipline problems
EImaginary wives, seized children, Wagner Group's Pornhub campaign
ERussian youth culture and subcultures
The Russian Volunteer Corps and its neo-Nazi leader
What the hell is Russia’s Wagner Group?
Russian influence in Hungary
Russia’s wartime emigration sparks a ‘reckoning’ in Central Asia
War reporting in Ukraine with The Washington Post’s Kyiv bureau
‘Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers, and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine’
Beyond TV and polling in Russia
Problems with the West’s talk about Ukraine’s ‘decolonization’
Studying Russia from afar
The fight for the future of the Russian language