Vladimir Putin: The B-Side (PREVIEW)

Vladimir Putin: The B-Side (PREVIEW)

August 15, 2026 · 22 min · Season 3

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This episode previews a discussion on Balaji Srinivasan's Network School moving to Kazakhstan and explores various aspects of Russia's history and birth rate statistics.

THIS IS A PREVIEW OF A BONUS B-SIDE EPISODE. For access to the full length version of this and every other biweekly bonus B-side, go to Patreon.com/illconceived -------------------------- Balaji Srinivasan's Network School got kicked out of Malaysia, so they're picking up stakes and moving to Kazakhstan while making a hard pivot into being a natalist compound. We're talking about it, plus we read your letters on: The shape of Russia during the 90s, 2000s, and now Traveling to Russia in the early 2010s Different statistics used to measure birth rates and how one statistic doesn't paint the whole picture Lyman Stone's tweet about Somalians and why he made the distinctions he did

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