The Naked Pravda
A podcast by Медуза / Meduza
173 Episodes
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Belarusian propaganda: From courting the West to taking Russia’s cues
Published: 9/19/2020 -
Finding the poison: Dr. Marc-Michael Blum explains the analytical chemistry needed to identify nerve agents in patients
Published: 9/12/2020 -
For Russian eyes only: U.S. voter data, hackers, and the story that wasn’t
Published: 9/4/2020 -
Russia’s coronavirus vaccine: Assessing the risks and research behind ‘Sputnik V’
Published: 8/30/2020 -
Poisoned in Russia: Alexey Navalny fights for his life as a deadly trend catches up to the country’s top oppositionist
Published: 8/21/2020 -
The Belarusian Election: Three experts explain what to expect from the presidential vote and the real political battle that follows
Published: 8/8/2020 -
The Sino-Russian Propaganda Pact: How Moscow and Beijing bungled a media partnership meant to promote each other
Published: 7/31/2020 -
The FSO on the QT: The state of sociological work and opinion polling in Russia today
Published: 7/25/2020 -
Treason and Military Journalism in Russia: The arrest and prosecution of Ivan Safronov
Published: 7/11/2020 -
The Seventh Studio Case: What Kirill Serebrennikov means to Russia’s art world
Published: 6/27/2020 -
‘Secondary Infektion’: Ben Nimmo explains how his investigative team helped to uncover a long-running Russian disinformation operation
Published: 6/19/2020 -
Nationalism and the Alt-Right: Another look at ‘Russian Lives Matter’
Published: 6/13/2020 -
Russian Lives Matter: How America’s new civil rights movement reverberates in Russia
Published: 6/6/2020 -
Moral calculus under Putin: Joshua Yaffa talks about his new book, ‘Between Two Fires’
Published: 5/22/2020 -
It's business time: Max Seddon dissects the controversy at ‘Vedomosti’ and reviews the nature of financial reporting in Russia today
Published: 5/15/2020 -
F**k the Pulitzer: A Russian investigative journalist says his team deserves recognition for breaking one of the stories that won ‘The New York Times’ its latest reporting award
Published: 5/8/2020 -
‘Red Dawn’: What Hollywood's most outlandish Cold War movie says about Americans and Russians
Published: 4/24/2020 -
Pandemic Justice: How COVID-19 and coronavirus containment measures have exacerbated problems in Russia's courts and prisons
Published: 4/17/2020 -
‘Russian Journalism's Newspeak’: How the Kremlin's euphemisms creep into reporting about disasters
Published: 4/11/2020 -
‘The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad New Boss’: Editorial changes at ‘Vedomosti’ jeopardize one of Russia's best-respected business newspapers
Published: 4/3/2020
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.