24 februari 2026
33 min
Lucian Kim explains how a generational clash over Soviet nostalgia enabled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion, journalist Lucian Kim discusses his book, tracing the war from Soviet collapse and imperial nostalgia to one man’s radicalization, and asks what, if anything, could have stopped it.
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20 februari 2026
Unpacking the economics behind Russia’s military recruitment machine, with researcher Janis Kluge
26 min
12 februari 2026
Russia has crushed open defiance in occupied Ukraine. Scholar Jade McGlynn explains how the resistance went underground to survive.
35 min
6 februari 2026
What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at 4 a.m.? The curious case of Nomma Zarubina.
29 min
14 januari 2026
Historian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘revolutionary euphoria to the madness of war’
44 min
9 januari 2026
Is Trump’s Venezuela operation a ‘gift to Putin,’ and what is the state of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’?
45 min
23 december 2025
Moscow Times opinion editor Charlie Hancock discusses the challenges of commissioning commentary on Russia amid the war in Ukraine
28 min
16 december 2025
Pavel Durov’s Russian biographer explains the tech-bro feudalism that drives Telegram
35 min
9 december 2025
Simon Shuster on the fall of Andriy Yermak
35 min
5 december 2025
Andrei Sannikov on Lukashenko’s latest gambit — and why the West keeps taking the bait
24 min
22 november 2025
Russia’s elites once dreaded war. Now, they fear peace.
32 min