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Meduza’s English-language podcast, The Naked Pravda highlights how our top reporting intersects with the wider research and expertise that exists about Russia. The broader context of Meduza’s in-depth, original journalism isn’t always clear, which is where this show comes in. Here you’ll hear from the world’s community of Russia experts, activists, and reporters about issues that are at the heart of Meduza’s stories and crucial to major events in and around Russia.

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Meduza’s English-language podcast, The Naked Pravda highlights how our top reporting intersects with the wider research and expertise that exists about Russia. The broader context of Meduza’s in-depth, original journalism isn’t always clear, which is where this show comes in. Here you’ll hear from the world’s community of Russia experts, activists, and reporters about issues that are at the heart of Meduza’s stories and crucial to major events in and around Russia.

    How Russian disinformation really threatens the USA

    How Russian disinformation really threatens the USA

    Meduza speaks to cyber, tech, and propaganda expert Gavin Wilde about his recent writings on the dangers of “overhyping” the threat of Russian disinformation in the United States.

    • 30 min
    Returning to the talks that could have ended the war in Ukraine

    Returning to the talks that could have ended the war in Ukraine

    Meduza interviews scholars Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko about their Foreign Affairs article, “The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine: A Hidden History of Diplomacy That Came Up Short — but Holds Lessons for Future Negotiations.”

    • 33 min
    How Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov dies

    How Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov dies

    Meduza speaks to Novaya Gazeta Europe editor-in-chief Kirill Martynov to dig into his outlet’s recent investigation into Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov and learn more about the predicament of Russia’s second-worst autocrat.

    • 26 min
    Migration and discrimination in Putin’s Russia

    Migration and discrimination in Putin’s Russia

    To learn about Russia’s migration policy under Putin and the xenophobic backlash to the Crocus City Hall attack, Meduza speaks to journalist Leyla Latypova, policy expert Temur Umarov, and political scientist Caress Schenk.

    • 46 min
    The evolution of the Russian FSB

    The evolution of the Russian FSB

    Foreign intelligence services expert Dr. Kevin Riehle joins The Naked Pravda to talk about the past, present, and future of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB.

    • 44 min
    Daniel Roher and Julia Ioffe remember the Navalnys

    Daniel Roher and Julia Ioffe remember the Navalnys

    Meduza speaks to Oscar-winning filmmaker Daniel Roher and journalist Julia Ioffe, one of America’s foremost voices on Russia-U.S. relations, for a look back at Alexey Navalny’s career in politics and ahead to the political future of his widow, Yulia.

    • 48 min

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