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The Naked Pravda

The Naked Pravda

102 Episodes • By Медуза / Meduza • meduza.io/en/podcasts/the-naked-...
Meduza’s English-language podcast, The Naked Pravda highlights how our top reporting intersects with the wider research and expertise that exists about Russia. The broader context of Meduza’s in-depth, original journalism isn’t always clear, which is where this show comes in. Here you’ll hear from t ...more
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The Naked Pravda
The Naked Pravda
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The Russian military’s growing discipline problems
In a new investigative report, journalists at Mediaz... more
Mar 25 2023 32m
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Imaginary wives, seized children, Wagner Group's Pornhub campaign
Show host Kevin Rothrock revisits noteworthy news st... more
Mar 17 2023 18m
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Russian youth culture and subcultures
Late last month, there was a sudden and brief explos... more
Mar 11 2023 34m
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The Russian Volunteer Corps and its neo-Nazi leader
On Thursday morning, March 2, a few dozen armed men ... more
Mar 3 2023 37m
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What the hell is Russia’s Wagner Group?
Amid an escalating public conflict between Russia’s ... more
Feb 23 2023 42m
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Russian influence in Hungary
In early February 2022, as Russia massed more than 1... more
Feb 17 2023 38m
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Russia’s wartime emigration sparks a ‘reckoning’ in Central Asia
In the initial months after Moscow launched its full... more
Feb 10 2023 59m
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War reporting in Ukraine with The Washington Post’s Kyiv bureau
On May 11, 2022, The Washington Post announced that ... more
Feb 3 2023 28m
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‘Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers, and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine’
Writer Anna Arutunyan, author of “The Putin Mystique... more
Jan 27 2023 34m
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Beyond TV and polling in Russia
On this week’s episode of The Naked Pravda, Meduza s... more
Jan 20 2023 42m
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Problems with the West’s talk about Ukraine’s ‘decolonization’
In an article titled “Ukrainian Voices?” recently pu... more
Dec 30 2022 37m
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Studying Russia from afar
Given current events in Russia and Ukraine, much of ... more
Dec 22 2022 33m
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The fight for the future of the Russian language
In a guest essay this week for Meduza, philologist G... more
Dec 3 2022 31m
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Who the hell is Evgeny Prigozhin?
A couple of months ago, videos from Russian prisons ... more
Nov 23 2022 59m
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An idiot’s guide to the current state of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
It’s been more than 266 days since Russia launched a... more
Nov 18 2022 33m
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What if Russian commercial aviation cuts too many safety corners?
It’s an exaggeration to say that Russian aviation ha... more
Nov 11 2022 33m
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What if Russia uses a dirty bomb in Ukraine?
On October 23, following a report in Russia’s state ... more
Nov 4 2022 44m
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Would Russians be able to rationalize the war against Ukraine without gendered rhetoric?
Now that Vladimir Putin is 70 years old, we’re under... more
Oct 21 2022 31m
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Will U.S. partisan politics undermine American support for Ukraine?
On Tuesday, November 8, the U.S. is holding midterm ... more
Oct 15 2022 36m
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If China invades Taiwan, what happens to the war in Ukraine?
The Chinese government has consistently threatened t... more
Oct 8 2022 31m
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What if Russia uses nuclear weapons?
When announcing a draft to reinforce Moscow’s invasi... more
Oct 1 2022 43m
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What if Vladimir Putin dies tomorrow?
As acting president, elected president, prime minist... more
Sep 23 2022 42m
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Season three trailer
Meduza’s only English-language podcast, The Naked Pr... more
Sep 22 2022 2m
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Kadri Liik explains ‘Putin’s archaic war’ and the Russia we lost
Meduza welcomes European Council on Foreign Relation... more
Jul 9 2022 28m
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Russian film and television before and since the invasion of Ukraine
After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukrai... more
Jun 25 2022 34m
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