Recent Posts

American Famine Relief to Soviet Russia

Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

October 16, 2020

Russian and American Empire

Guests: Daniel Immerwahr and Willard Sunderland on American and Russian Empire.

October 9, 2020

Enter Dopeworld

Guest: Niko Vorobyov on the adventures in dopeworld.

October 2, 2020

Russian Serfdom and American Slavery

Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.

September 25, 2020

SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move

Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.

September 23, 2020

Putin on CNN

So far it’s just a short clip . Hopefully, CNN will make the whole interview available. But this clip contains what everyone is talking about. Namely, Putin’s suggestion that the Bush Administration provoked this war to help John McCain. I think Putin made a big PR blunder. His words will be sent through the American spin cycle so fast that I’m sure by tomorrow pundits will be calling for blood.

http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=dom&vid=/video/world/2008/08/28/chance.russian.putin.unplugged.cnn