The Naked Pravda
A podcast by Медуза / Meduza
173 Episodes
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Pulitzer-winner Benjamin Nathans on the Soviet dissident movement’s ‘many lives’
Published: 6/23/2025 -
Everyday politics in Russia with Jeremy Morris
Published: 5/28/2025 -
Jill Dougherty’s Russia
Published: 4/29/2025 -
The banking scandal that broke Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition
Published: 11/9/2024 -
Moldova’s knife-edge election and E.U. referendum
Published: 11/2/2024 -
How Russian propaganda and ordinary Americans build ‘bespoke realities’
Published: 10/26/2024 -
North Korea's role in the Ukraine War
Published: 10/19/2024 -
Breaking down Russia's 2025 war budget
Published: 10/5/2024 -
The North Caucasian clan warfare behind a deadly dispute at Wildberries, ‘Russia’s Amazon’
Published: 9/29/2024 -
America's expanding crackdown on RT and Moscow's covert influence operations
Published: 9/18/2024 -
Iranian ballistic missiles have entered the Ukraine War chat
Published: 9/13/2024 -
The science of Russian Internet censorship and surveillance
Published: 8/24/2024 -
Russian conscripts and Ukraine's Kursk offensive
Published: 8/17/2024 -
The long-term economic effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Published: 6/15/2024 -
How can Ukraine hold the line against Russia?
Published: 6/8/2024 -
Kazakhstan's landmark murder trial
Published: 5/31/2024 -
‘The American faith’: Why Russia targets evangelicals in Ukraine
Published: 5/25/2024 -
Corruption and co-optation in Russia’s autocracy
Published: 5/18/2024 -
How Russian disinformation really threatens the USA
Published: 5/10/2024 -
Returning to the talks that could have ended the war in Ukraine
Published: 5/3/2024
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 the world’s community of Russia experts, activists, and reporters about issues that are at the heart of Meduza’s stories and crucial to major events in and around Russia.