173 Episodes

  1. How Russian comedians find the humor in exile

    Published: 11/20/2023
  2. How the USSR tried to run the world

    Published: 11/10/2023
  3. Why is anti-Semitic violence spreading in Russia’s North Caucasus?

    Published: 11/5/2023
  4. The Russian military’s ‘torture pits’

    Published: 10/28/2023
  5. Russian music at war

    Published: 10/21/2023
  6. How Russia pressures Central Asian migrants into military service

    Published: 10/13/2023
  7. ‘Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict Between Russia and the West’

    Published: 10/7/2023
  8. Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh

    Published: 9/30/2023
  9. What’s behind Putin’s recent spate of anti-Semitic statements?

    Published: 9/22/2023
  10. The Pegasus spyware attack on Meduza

    Published: 9/16/2023
  11. Russian elections after an eternity under Putin

    Published: 9/9/2023
  12. Jade McGlynn’s ‘Russia’s War’

    Published: 9/1/2023
  13. The Kremlin’s new history textbook

    Published: 8/19/2023
  14. ‘Goodbye, Eastern Europe’ with Jacob Mikanowski

    Published: 8/11/2023
  15. Why Alexey Navalny matters

    Published: 8/3/2023
  16. Loyalty and competence in Russia's armed forces

    Published: 7/28/2023
  17. The new era of Russian business politics

    Published: 7/22/2023
  18. Counting Russia’s 47,000 killed combatants

    Published: 7/15/2023
  19. The danger at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

    Published: 7/11/2023
  20. An obituary for Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group

    Published: 7/1/2023

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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.