About this episode

Brian Whitmore discusses the current political landscape in Ukraine with Casey Michel, focusing on corruption and kleptocracy.

On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore breaks it all down with journalist, author, and longtime Kremlin-watcher Casey Michel, head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human RIghts Foundation and author of the books American Kleptocracy, Foreign Agents, and United States of Oligarchy.

People in this episode

Host: Brian Whitmore

Guest: Casey Michel

Topics covered

• Ukrainian politics
• Kremlin analysis
• corruption
• kleptocracy
• journalism

Keywords

• Zelensky
• Kremlin
• kleptocracy
• corruption
• Ukraine
• Casey Michel

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Human Rights Foundation

Books & works: American Kleptocracy, Foreign Agents, United States of Oligarchy

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