Russian Serfdom and American Slavery
Guests: Amanda Brickell Bellows and Alessandro Stanziani on Russian serfdom and American slavery.
September 25, 2020
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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
Protests in Belarus
Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.
September 11, 2020
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.
September 2, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
August 31, 2020
Murder
The Russian Mafia
Guest: Mark Galeotti on The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia published by Yale University Press.
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August 3, 2018
Russia’s Mass Protests Five Years On
Guest: Marc Bennetts on I’m Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin’s War on Russia’s Opposition.
January 16, 2017
Politkovskaya Ten Years On
It’s been ten years since an assassin put four bullets in Anna Politkovskaya—three in her chest, one in her head, the hallmark of a contract hit. And what can be said on this macabre anniversary?
October 7, 2016
The Mysterious Poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Murza
Guest: Carl Shreck on the poisoning of Vladimir Kara-Muza.
January 17, 2016
Nemtsov Murder Reverberations and Early 1930s Armenia
Guests: Pavel Baev on the fallout of the Nemtsov murder; Pietro Shakarian on Armenia.
March 19, 2015
March 4, 2015
Surkov and Neo-Nazis?
My latest for Russia Magazine, “Did Vladislav Surkov Help Fund Neo-Nazis?“: It’s long been rumored that Vladislav Surkov funded and directed football hooligans and Russian
February 28, 2014
Battlefield Volgograd
My article for Next City, “Why the Terrorists Chose Volgograd,” Volgograd has a long history of violence. Originally Tsaritsyn, it was a key southern outpost
January 1, 2014
Volgograd Bombing
Russia suffered its first terrorist attack outside the North Caucasus since the Domodedovo airport bombing that killed 37 and injured 178 in January 2011. Though
October 21, 2013
Six and Sixty
This post was also published at Warscapes. Sunday, October 7, marks six years since Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment elevator. The assailant shot
October 6, 2012