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Lucian Kim explains how a generational clash over Soviet nostalgia enabled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Feb 24, 2026
33m 17s
Unpacking the economics behind Russia’s military recruitment machine, with researcher Janis Kluge
Feb 20, 2026
25m 39s
Russia has crushed open defiance in occupied Ukraine. Scholar Jade McGlynn explains how the resistance went underground to survive.
Feb 12, 2026
35m 09s
What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at 4 a.m.? The curious case of Nomma Zarubina.
Feb 6, 2026
29m 07s
Historian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘revolutionary euphoria to the madness of war’
Jan 14, 2026
44m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/24/26 | Lucian Kim explains how a generational clash over Soviet nostalgia enabled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine✨ | Soviet nostalgiaRussia-Ukraine conflict+4 | Lucian Kim | his book | RussiaUkraine | RussiaUkraine+5 | — | 33m 17s | |
| 2/20/26 | Unpacking the economics behind Russia’s military recruitment machine, with researcher Janis Kluge✨ | economicsmilitary recruitment+3 | Janis Kluge | Медуза | Russia | Russiamilitary+3 | — | 25m 39s | |
| 2/12/26 | Russia has crushed open defiance in occupied Ukraine. Scholar Jade McGlynn explains how the resistance went underground to survive.✨ | resistanceoccupied Ukraine+3 | Jade McGlynn | King’s College London | Ukraine | resistanceUkraine+3 | — | 35m 09s | |
| 2/6/26 | What happens when you drunk-text the FBI about Russian spies and prostitutes at 4 a.m.? The curious case of Nomma Zarubina.✨ | drunk textingFBI+5 | Mike Eckel | RFE/RLFSB | — | drunk textFBI+5 | — | 29m 07s | |
| 1/14/26 | Historian William Jay Risch looks back at Euromaidan and Ukraine’s road from ‘revolutionary euphoria to the madness of war’✨ | EuromaidanUkraine+4 | William Jay Risch | new book | Ukraine | EuromaidanUkraine+5 | — | 44m 04s | |
| 1/9/26 | Is Trump’s Venezuela operation a ‘gift to Putin,’ and what is the state of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’?✨ | U.S. foreign policyVenezuela+4 | Seva GunitskyCraig Kennedy | MeduzaU.S. | Venezuela | TrumpVenezuela+5 | — | 45m 24s | |
| 12/23/25 | Moscow Times opinion editor Charlie Hancock discusses the challenges of commissioning commentary on Russia amid the war in Ukraine✨ | commentarymedia challenges+3 | Charlie Hancock | Moscow Times | RussiaUkraine | Moscow TimesCharlie Hancock+5 | — | 28m 15s | |
| 12/16/25 | Pavel Durov’s Russian biographer explains the tech-bro feudalism that drives Telegram✨ | biographytechnology+3 | Nikolay Kononov | TelegramThe Populist: The Untold Story of Pavel Durov and Telegram | — | Pavel DurovTelegram+5 | — | 35m 25s | |
| 12/9/25 | Simon Shuster on the fall of Andriy Yermak✨ | Ukrainian politicswar in Ukraine+3 | Simon Shuster | Ukrainian president | — | Andriy YermakSimon Shuster+4 | — | 35m 16s | |
| 12/5/25 | Andrei Sannikov on Lukashenko’s latest gambit — and why the West keeps taking the bait✨ | Belaruspolitical repression+3 | Andrei Sannikov | LukashenkoMinsk | — | BelarusLukashenko+5 | — | 24m 17s | |
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| 11/22/25 | Russia’s elites once dreaded war. Now, they fear peace. | Meduza talks with independent journalist Farida Rustamova about how Putin’s war effort changed the rules of the game for Russia’s “old elites” — and made them fear peace. | — | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | Elena Kostyuchenko explains why E.U. multiple-entry visas were so crucial for Russian dissidents and journalists | Meduza interviews journalist and activist Elena Kostyuchenko to find out why the loss of E.U. multiple-entry visas is such a major problem for Russia’s scattered network of dissidents, independent journalists, and activists. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/25 | Julia Ioffe’s ‘Motherland’ | Journalist Julia Ioffe returns to The Naked Pravda to discuss her new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. | — | ||||||
| 10/9/25 | Four scenarios for the next chapter in Russia’s war against Ukraine | Political scientist Maria Snegovaya joins The Naked Pravda to discuss the mounting costs straining the Kremlin’s war machine and four plausible scenarios for the Russia–Ukraine war’s next chapter. | — | ||||||
| 9/24/25 | Here’s what you do when Russia won’t stay out of your airspace | Dr. Olga Oliker discusses escalating incursions by Russian aircraft into NATO airspace in Eastern Europe, drawing comparisons to Turkey downing a Russian bomber in Syria in the November 2015. | — | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | Joshua Yaffa explains how Donald Trump got NATO to pay up | Journalist Joshua Yaffa discusses his June 2025 New Yorker article, “Collective Punishment: Why is Donald Trump upending America’s commitment to NATO?” and how the looming threats of Russian aggression and U.S. withdrawal pressure Europe. | — | ||||||
| 6/23/25 | Pulitzer-winner Benjamin Nathans on the Soviet dissident movement’s ‘many lives’ | Historian Benjamin Nathans joins The Naked Pravda to discuss his latest book, “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement” (Princeton University Press, August 2024). | — | ||||||
| 5/28/25 | Everyday politics in Russia with Jeremy Morris | Anthropologist Jeremy Morris joins The Naked Pravda to discuss his latest book, “Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance” (Bloomsbury, March 2025). | — | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | Jill Dougherty’s Russia | The Naked Pravda interviews journalist and author Jill Dougherty about her new memoir, “My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin.” | — | ||||||
| 11/9/24 | The banking scandal that broke Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition | With help from financial transparency expert Ilya Shumanov, Meduza breaks down the squabbling and criminal stakes at the heart of the scandal involving Probusinessbank, the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and activist Maxim Katz. | — | ||||||
| 11/2/24 | Moldova’s knife-edge election and E.U. referendum | The Naked Pravda talks to journalist and writer Paula Erizanu and Ecaterina Locoman, a senior lecturer in international studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute, about Moldova’s 2024 presidential election and constitutional referendum. | — | ||||||
| 10/26/24 | How Russian propaganda and ordinary Americans build ‘bespoke realities’ | Meduza spoke to disinformation expert Renée DiResta about Russian propaganda, how it’s evolved over the years, and how American social networks are responding (and not responding) ahead of the November 2024 vote. | — | ||||||
| 10/19/24 | North Korea's role in the Ukraine War | For a crash course in Russian-North Korean relations and a hard look at recent claims from the Ukrainian and South Korean governments of thousands of North Korean soldiers flooding the battlefield in Ukraine, Meduza spoke to Dr. Fyodor Tertitsky. | — | ||||||
| 10/5/24 | Breaking down Russia's 2025 war budget | The Naked Pravda talks to Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center fellow Alexandra Prokopenko about Russia’s 2025 draft budget, focusing on planned allocations to the military. | — | ||||||
| 9/29/24 | The North Caucasian clan warfare behind a deadly dispute at Wildberries, ‘Russia’s Amazon’ | The Naked Pravda speaks to Ilya Shumanov, the general director of Transparency International-Russia in exile, about the clan conflict at the heart of a merger between the online marketplace Wildberries and the outdoor advertising company Russ Group. | — | ||||||
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