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Back to the Stalin Era? An Inside Look at the Russian Elites, with Farida Rustamova and Margarita LiutovaPodcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Farida Rustamova and Margarita Liutova, independent journalists and authors of the Faridaily English-language newsletter, to discuss the shocking suicide of Russia’s transport minister, Roman Starovoit, and what it tells us about the pressure inside Putin’s power system.
A Friend in Need? Decoding Russia’s Position on the Israel-Iran War, with Nicole Grajewski and Arkady Mil-ManPodcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Nicole Grajewski, a fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Arkady Mil-Man, a senior researcher and head of the Russia Program at the Institute for National Security Studies, as well as a former Israeli ambassador to Russia, to discuss the fate of Russian influence in the Middle East amid the Israel-Iran conflict.
How Stable Is the Russian War Economy? With Alexandra ProkopenkoPodcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Alexandra Prokopenko, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and one of the leading experts on the Russian economy, to assess the current state of Putin’s wartime economy and discuss its future prospects.
Calculating Russia’s Losses in Ukraine, With Mika Golubovsky and David FrenkelPodcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by two representatives of the independent Russian media outlet Mediazona—English-language editor Mika Golubovsky and data team technical lead David Frenkel—to discuss their work counting Russia’s losses in spite of Moscow’s attempts to obscure that data.
