Josh Rudolph's guest appearances

Josh Rudolph

Democracy That Delivers

Out of Order

Making a Killing

Yuen Yuen Ang

Abigail Bellows

Jodi Vittori

Elissa Slotkin

Jonathan Katz

Benedetta Berti

Angel Romero

Alfredo Rodriguez

Scott Carpenter

William Yang

Martin Selmayr

Cecilia Malmström

Luke Harding

George Packer

Michael Johnston

OwlTail

Josh Rudolph and Abigail Bellows join Nate Sibley to explore how diplomacy, foreign development aid and financial policy can be leveraged against kleptocracy. Casey Michel and Paul Massaro discuss the hijacking of an airliner by Belarus’ kleptocratic dictator.

Ep. 8: Abigail Bellows and Josh Rudolph on Alternative Measures for Combating Corruption

This week, we’re handing the mic over to Josh Rudolph, the Malign Finance fellow at GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy and the author of the new report, Covert Foreign Money.Josh is joined by Luke Harding, best-selling author and senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Harding, who served as The Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007-2011, recently published the new book “Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West.” From Novichok poisonings to millions in covert money, Josh and Luke discuss how the Kremlin tries to spread its influence around the world. The fake news and Facebook trolls are just part of this story.   Links:Book: Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the WestReport: Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interference in DemocraciesArticle: Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin criticsOp-Ed: The Rise of Foreign Funds That Distort Western Politics

This week, we’re handing the mic over to Josh Rudolph, the Malign Finance fellow at GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy and the author of the new report, <a href="https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/covert-foreign-money/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Covert Foreign Money</a>.Josh is joined by Luke Harding, best-selling author and senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Harding, who served as The Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief from 2007-2011, recently published the new book “Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West.” From Novichok poisonings to millions in covert money, Josh and Luke discuss how the Kremlin tries to spread its influence around the world. The fake news and Facebook trolls are just part of this story.   Links:<ul><li>Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-State/dp/1783352051/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1601498182&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West</a></li><li>Report: <a href="https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/covert-foreign-money/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interference in Democracies</a></li><li>Article: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/alexei-navalny-russia-long-history-of-poisoned-kremlin-critics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alexei Navalny and the long history of poisoned Kremlin critics</a></li><li>Op-Ed: <a href="https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/josh-rudolph-on-the-rise-of-foreign-funds-that-distort-western-politics-in-the-financial-times/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Rise of Foreign Funds That Distort Western Politics</a></li></ul>

Shadow State: Josh Rudolph with Luke Harding on the Kremlin’s Quest for Chaos in the West

Due to technical difficulties at the CIPE studio, last week's Democracy That Delivers podcast is being published this week.  This week, Martina Hrvolova, Program Officer for Europe and Eurasia at CIPE, is our host. She is joined by Josh Rudolph, the Fellow for Malign Finance at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund. They discuss the issue of party financing from foreign sources, focusing on some country examples and channels, including shell companies or subsidiaries of foreign companies in recipient countries. He also introduces ASD’s influence tracker - a depository meant to expose the Russian government’s foreign interference activities in more than 40 transatlantic countries from 2000 to the present across the five tools ASD tracks. These tools are: information operations, cyberattacks, political and social subversion, strategic economic coercion, and malign finance.

Due to technical difficulties at the CIPE studio, last week's Democracy That Delivers podcast is being published this week.  This week, Martina Hrvolova, Program Officer for Europe and Eurasia at CIPE, is our host. She is joined by Josh Rudolph, the Fellow for Malign Finance at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund. They discuss the issue of party financing from foreign sources, focusing on some country examples and channels, including shell companies or subsidiaries of foreign companies in recipient countries. He also introduces <a href="https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/toolbox/authoritarian-interference-tracker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ASD’s influence tracker - </a>a depository meant to expose the Russian government’s foreign interference activities in more than 40 transatlantic countries from 2000 to the present across the five tools ASD tracks. These tools are: information operations, cyberattacks, political and social subversion, strategic economic coercion, and malign finance.

Democracy That Delivers #177: Josh Rudolph on Malign Finance Loopholes in Party Financing