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In Moscow's Shadows 246: Is Russia A Great Power?
May 3, 2026
51m 02s
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Apr 26, 2026
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In Moscow's Shadows 244: The War Word And The Clickbait Trap
Apr 19, 2026
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In Moscow's Shadows 243: Who Controls The Story In Russia?
Apr 5, 2026
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Mar 29, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/3/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 246: Is Russia A Great Power?✨ | Russia's power statusgreat power+4 | — | — | MaliRussia | Russiagreat power+5 | — | 51m 02s | |
| 4/26/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 245: Belousov And The War Machine✨ | Russian militarydefense procurement+3 | — | Russia’s Defence MinistryKremlin | — | Andrei BelousovPutin+5 | — | 43m 47s | |
| 4/19/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 244: The War Word And The Clickbait Trap✨ | Russiawar+3 | — | British press | — | Russiawar+5 | — | 46m 50s | |
| 4/5/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 243: Who Controls The Story In Russia?✨ | narrative controlauthoritarianism+4 | — | Post-Soviet Graffiti. Free Speech in Authoritarian States | RussiaDonbas | Russianarrative control+4 | — | 48m 01s | |
| 3/29/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 242: Igor Sechin, Sharpening Putin's Pencils for 30 Years✨ | oligarchsRussian politics+4 | — | Rosneft | — | Igor SechinPutin+5 | — | 50m 55s | |
| 3/22/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 241: When Attack Dogs Turn✨ | Russian politicsmedia manipulation+3 | — | Kremlin | EstoniaSt Petersburg+1 | Kremlindisinformation+5 | — | 42m 36s | |
| 3/15/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 240: Frankenstein's Putinism✨ | Putinismideology+4 | — | Stanford UPIdeology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime | — | Putinideology+6 | — | 50m 47s | |
| 3/8/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 239: Wars Foreign and Domestic✨ | Russia's perspective on the Iran warnon-contact warfare+3 | — | In Moscow's Shadows | IranUSA+1 | Iran warRussia+7 | — | 49m 48s | |
| 3/1/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 238: Bangers and Mish✨ | Russia's geopolitical strategydrone and missile strikes+3 | — | USAIsrael+2 | — | RussiaMikhail Mishustin+5 | — | 52m 18s | |
| 2/22/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 237: How A 1552 Siege Explains A 2022 Invasion✨ | warfarelogistics+4 | — | OspreySiege of Kazan 1552: Ivan the Terrible breaks the Kazan khanate | KazanUkraine | KazanIvan the Terrible+6 | — | 1h 01m 49s | |
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| 2/15/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 236: What Is Russia?✨ | RussiaNavalny+4 | — | Russian negotiation teamEpstein+1 | — | NavalnyRussia+5 | — | 52m 41s | |
| 2/10/26 | In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: Rebel Russia | A mini-episode that paying Patrons heard as part of their Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas bonuses. Forget the cliché that Russians accept power without protest, I sit down with author and analyst Anna Arutunyan to unpack a more complicated truth from her book Rebel Russia: Russia’s past is full of uprisings and dissent, yet weak social solidarity keeps those bursts of courage from becoming lasting institutions. When no stable forums exist for bargaining between citizens and the state, pressu... | 27m 42s | ||||||
| 2/8/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 235: From a GRU to a Kill | Yes, that's a lame James Bond title wordplay. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, second in command of Russian military intelligence (technically, GU; colloquially, still GRU) is gunned down in Moscow. Whodunnit, whydunnit, and what will it mean? Of course, I don't know, but I have a stab at these questions. The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, counter-terrorism, civil affairs and s... | 52m 51s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | In Moscow's Shadows Bonus Minipod: How Putin Is Protected | A mini-episode that paying Patrons heard as part of their Twelve Days of Shadowy Christmas bonuses, opening the gates on Vladimir Putin’s personal security. From rooftop snipers and sealed manholes to an armoured Aurus limo and a “ghost train” that slips through the rail network without a schedule, the machinery is vast, expensive, and designed to smother threats before they form. The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive c... | 22m 13s | ||||||
| 2/1/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 234: PACE’s Picks, Ukraine’s Grid, Russia’s Corruption | Four stories with counter-intuitive implications: PACE’s new platform for dialogue with “Russian democratic forces” beg the question of whether a handpicked roster, quota politics, and delegates closely tied to Ukrainian advocacy strengthen dialogue with Russians or hand the Kremlin an easy propaganda win. Does the much-hyped energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine offer little repair time but plenty of room for Moscow to refill missile stocks and plan salvos designed to overwhelm a... | 42m 36s | ||||||
| 1/25/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 233: News, from Abu Dhabi to Kamchatka; and Chechnya After Kadyrov | First, a look at some of the news as this year starts hard and bizarre: trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi (with military intelligence chiefs to the fore), the Greenland crisis and the perils of Trump's Board of Peace for a Russia that we might consider a 'middle power.' Then, once-in-a-generation blizzards in Kamchatka as a test of state capacity and Putin's engagement. With Kadyrov reportedly seriously ill (really, this time, we think), what prospects for this satrapy? His sons are too young, to... | 49m 23s | ||||||
| 1/18/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 232: the Black Priest vs the Death Cult | A tabloid brands Zelensky’s Christmas address a “black mass,” complete with glassy eyes, hidden codes, and a trance to “hack the noosphere” to cast a death curse on Putin. Huh? What? Why are occult narratives creeping from the fringe into Russia’s mainstream? And, for that matter, why are notions such that Russia is now in the grip of a "nihilistic death cult" also warping Western thinking? A trip deep down into a bizarre rabbit-hole. The Moskovsky Komsomolets article I discuss is here. Earli... | 45m 13s | ||||||
| 1/11/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine | The talk of a military force provided by the 'Coalition of the Willing' to help secure Ukraine after a peace is a non-starter, not least as it would preclude any peace deal. But it's easy to snipe from the sidelines, so this episode I stick my neck out: what do I think would represent a credible security guarantee for Ukraine that would also permit a peace? Buckle in, it's a long and wonkish episode, but in many ways that's the point: deterrence works when credibility beats rhetoric, and no s... | 1h 04m 40s | ||||||
| 1/4/26 | In Moscow's Shadows 230: The Rise and Fall of a Chechen Gang | Before the self-indulgence of a deep-dive into the rise and fall of the Chechen Lazanskaya Brigada in Moscow -- and why there are some worrying implications for the coming situation in Russia and Europe -- I look at recent developments: the appointment of Budanov as Zelensky's new chief of staff, the US operation in Venezuela, and recent drone strikes... The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid wa... | 1h 04m 59s | ||||||
| 12/28/25 | In Moscow's Shadows 229: Heroes and Villains | To end the year, instead of the grand sweep of geopolitics, let's look at a collection of people making the news, sometimes whether they like it or not. (PS: Listened to JD Vance at the Moscow Security Conference? A Freudian slip there -- of course, I meant Munich Security Conference!) And of course, as befits the last episode of the year, a little round up and thanks to everyone listening -- and doubly so, to my paying Patrons. The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which ... | 44m 20s | ||||||
| 12/21/25 | In Moscow's Shadows 228: Blood & Soil versus Bread & Butter | Putin's latest marathon press conference/call-in show Itogi Goda ('Results of the Year'), once Direct Line, has become an annual ritual. 4.5 hours, 3M submitted questions, but what can we learn? Intransigence over Ukraine, attempts to talk up the economy, but a marked disconnect with a population that feels its social contract has been broken... and a president who felt just a little less grounded and focused than in the past. The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, wh... | 48m 25s | ||||||
| 12/14/25 | In Moscow's Shadows 227: It's War! (within the emigre opposition, at least) | A demilitarised zone that invites armoured cars. A referendum that can’t be fairly run. A €210 billion pot that solves today’s bills but complicates tomorrow’s peace. We start with shuttle diplomacy and the hard edges of a potential DMZ in Donetsk. On paper it pauses the fight; in practice Rosgvardiya blurs policing and militarisation, turning “demilitarised” into a loophole big enough for armour. We then map the constitutional and moral traps around wartime elections or referendums, w... | 53m 10s | ||||||
| 11/30/25 | In Moscow's Shadows 226: Monsters in the Woods | There's not all that much to say about the Ukraine peace negotiations as delegations head to the USA and Russia, but I cover a few issues, from Trump's 'businessified' approach to geopolitics to the departures of both Andrii Yermak and Dmitri Kozak. In the second half, I use Russian folklore, and the arrays of terrifying threats in the deep woods and the potentially terrifying spirits of hearth and home as a parable for Russian strategic culture. Honestly. The forthcoming book I mention is So... | 34m 46s | ||||||
| 11/23/25 | In Moscow's Shadows 225: A Chance for Peace in Ukraine? | In the first half of the podcast, I look at the proposed Ukraine peace deal, which is only a foundation for proper negotiations, especially in terms of what it is not. In the second, I spin off Susanna Rabow-Edling's excellent book, The First Russian Revolution. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 (Reaktion Books) to consider some of the modern resonances. The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hyb... | 51m 35s | ||||||
| 11/16/25 | In Moscow's Shadows 224: In Helsinki's (and Kyiv's) Shadows | From where's Lavrov to whether it's time for Europe to speak to Putin directly, some questions with wider significance raised during my recent hectic trip to Finland. And, in the second half, how should we think about the likely fall of Pokrovsk and what to make of Ukraine's Midas Case corruption scandal -- and how it's being covered in Russia? The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software for innovative and immersive crisis exercises in hybrid warfare, cou... | 44m 52s | ||||||
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