About this episode

Brian Whitmore speaks with Mikhail Zygar to analyze the current state of the Kremlin and its implications.

On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Mikhail Zygar, author of the bestselling books All The Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin, War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, and the recently published The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism to make sense of it all and to separate the signal from the noise.

People in this episode

Host: Brian Whitmore

Guest: Mikhail Zygar

Topics covered

• Kremlin
• Russia
• Putin
• Ukraine
• politics
• invasion
• totalitarianism

Keywords

• Kremlin
• Mikhail Zygar
• Putin
• Ukraine
• politics
• invasion
• totalitarianism
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: All The Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin, War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism

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