The Naked Pravda Медуза

Financial Times Russia correspondent Anastasiia Stognei explains how the Russian economy manages surprisingly resilience in the face of Western sanctions, despite a more bleak long-term outlook.

International Crisis Group senior Ukraine analyst Simon Schlegel joins Meduza to talk about the lessons Kyiv and its allies must learn from the war so far if they hope to hold the line against Russia.

Meduza asks political scientist Colleen Wood, human rights activist Dinara Smailova, and journalist Aleksandra Akanaeva about the repercussions in Kazakhstan of the murder conviction of former Economic Minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev.

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.

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.

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.