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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.

     ‘The American faith’: Why Russia targets evangelicals in Ukraine

     ‘The American faith’: Why Russia targets evangelicals in Ukraine

    To learn about Russia’s targeting of evangelical Christians in occupied Ukraine, Meduza speaks to Steven Moore and Anna Shvetsova from the Ukraine Freedom Project and Catherine Wanner, a professor of history and religious studies at Penn State University.

    • 37 min
    Corruption and co-optation in Russia’s autocracy

    Corruption and co-optation in Russia’s autocracy

    Scholar David Szakonyi speaks to Meduza about his new article, “Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia,” exploring what it could reveal about the future of politics in Moscow.

    • 28 min
    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

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