Ranked #1
E44: Keith Gessen on The Quiet Americans
E44: Keith Gessen on The Quiet Americans
Kevin’s guest today is Keith Gessen, a novelist, journalist, literary translator, and assistant professor at Columbia Un... Read more
21 May 2018
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50mins
Ranked #2
E20: Going Vertical
E20: Going Vertical
In this episode, Kevin discusses “Going Vertical,” a new Russian blockbuster film about the USSR's 1972 Olympic basketba... Read more
13 Jan 2018
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12mins
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E58: Mark Galeotti
E58: Mark Galeotti
Kevin continues his interview series with professionals in the field of Russia expertise. Today's guest is Dr. Mark Gale... Read more
18 Sep 2018
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46mins
Ranked #4
E53: Anastasia Karimova
E53: Anastasia Karimova
On today’s show, Kevin talks to to Anastasia Karimova, a former activist and journalist in Russia. Today, she’s a gradua... Read more
24 Jul 2018
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31mins
Ranked #5
E54: How Russia Started Recruiting Hackers
E54: How Russia Started Recruiting Hackers
Kevin reads the full text of a new investigative report by Meduza’s Daniil Turovsky about how Russia’s war in Georgia sp... Read more
8 Aug 2018
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27mins
Ranked #6
E15: Dumb Americans and Crazy Anti-Semites
E15: Dumb Americans and Crazy Anti-Semites
Kevin commits Internet treason by criticizing his own country, moaning about Washington's inability to live up to its ow... Read more
1 Dec 2017
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21mins
Ranked #7
E95: Olesya Vartanyan on South Caucasus Breakaway Regions
E95: Olesya Vartanyan on South Caucasus Breakaway Regions
Today's guest is Olesya Vartanyan, Crisis Group’s analyst for the “EU Eastern Neighbourhood.” Based in Tbilisi, she rese... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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25mins
Ranked #8
E17: Aric Toler
E17: Aric Toler
Today's the first in The Russia Guy's new interview series. Kevin sat down (remotely. don't read too much into that word... Read more
19 Dec 2017
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29mins
Ranked #9
E42: Natalia Antonova
E42: Natalia Antonova
Kevin’s guest today is Natalia Antonova, who as many listeners already know is a prolific writer, and a journalist who’s... Read more
15 May 2018
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43mins
Ranked #10
E49: Talking Russian Pension Reform With an 8-Year-Old
E49: Talking Russian Pension Reform With an 8-Year-Old
On today’s show, Kevin reviews the pension reform proposal slipped into Russia’s news agenda last week, just as the coun... Read more
20 Jun 2018
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22mins
Ranked #11
E16: False Flags! Treason! Hacker Conspiracy!
E16: False Flags! Treason! Hacker Conspiracy!
Kevin discusses three stories in this episode:A conspiracy theory says the FSB leaked a hacker's confession to incrimina... Read more
13 Dec 2017
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25mins
Ranked #12
E38: Yasha Levine on Telegram
E38: Yasha Levine on Telegram
Today’s podcast guest is Yasha Levine, an investigative journalist and the author of the new book “Surveillance Valley: ... Read more
17 Apr 2018
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23mins
Ranked #13
E35: Neil Hauer on Russia in Syria
E35: Neil Hauer on Russia in Syria
In this episode, Kevin spoke to Neil Hauer, an independent analyst and journalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, who focuses... Read more
11 Apr 2018
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21mins
Ranked #14
E12: Putin's Sandwich Buddy and Some Damn Good Reporting
E12: Putin's Sandwich Buddy and Some Damn Good Reporting
After several weeks of silence, Kevin is back with a look at Evgeny Prigozhin, “Putin's favorite chef,” to talk troll fa... Read more
4 Nov 2017
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31mins
Ranked #15
E74: Maria Baronova on Leaving Russia's Opposition for ‘Russia Today’
E74: Maria Baronova on Leaving Russia's Opposition for ‘Russia Today’
Kevin's guest this week is Maria Baronova, a former opposition activist who now works for the state media network “Russi... Read more
12 Apr 2019
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41mins
Ranked #16
E97: Lincoln Pigman on Russian Cybersecurity
E97: Lincoln Pigman on Russian Cybersecurity
Today's guest is Lincoln Pigman, a Master’s graduate student at Oxford University and a research fellow at the Foreign P... Read more
21 Dec 2019
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30mins
Ranked #17
E62: Alina Polyakova on Life as a D.C. Think Tanker
E62: Alina Polyakova on Life as a D.C. Think Tanker
Today's guest is Alina Polyakova, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, an adjunct professor of European studies at Joh... Read more
12 Oct 2018
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53mins
Ranked #18
E72: Alexey Kovalev on ‘Russians Always Knew There Was No Collusion’
E72: Alexey Kovalev on ‘Russians Always Knew There Was No Collusion’
Today’s show looks at a controversial new op-ed that appeared in The New York Times on Friday, March 29, 2019, titled “R... Read more
31 Mar 2019
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43mins
Ranked #19
E96: Ariel Cohen on Political Risk in Russia
E96: Ariel Cohen on Political Risk in Russia
Today's guest is Ariel Cohen, a scholar focusing on political risk, international security and energy policy, and the ru... Read more
5 Dec 2019
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27mins
Ranked #20
E79: Ivan Golunov's Investigation Into Russia's Corrupt Funeral Business
E79: Ivan Golunov's Investigation Into Russia's Corrupt Funeral Business
On today’s show, Kevin reads the full text of his translation of Meduza investigative journalist Ivan Golunov’s August 2... Read more
12 Jun 2019
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53mins