In Moscow's Shadows 250: Moscow's Comms Playbook (And Why It's So Bad)
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The episode discusses how the Kremlin's crisis management exacerbates political issues following a drone incident in Romania.
A Russian drone hits a Romanian apartment block, two civilians are injured, and suddenly a stray weapon becomes a case study in how Putin’s Kremlin handles bad news. Why does the Kremlin’s crisis management default to a belligerent, self-sabotaging sequence that turns a manageable incident into a wider political problem? It comes down to the priorities of an insecure, personalistic authoritarian system that equates any admission of failure with weakness, that regards information as a battlef...
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