The banking scandal that broke Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition
With help from financial transparency expert Ilya Shumanov, Meduza breaks down the squabbling and criminal stakes at the heart of the scandal involvin...
Moldova’s knife-edge election and E.U. referendum
The Naked Pravda talks to journalist and writer Paula Erizanu and Ecaterina Locoman, a senior lecturer in international studies at the University of P...
How Russian propaganda and ordinary Americans build ‘bespoke realities’
Meduza spoke to disinformation expert Renée DiResta about Russian propaganda, how it’s evolved over the years, and how American social networks are re...
North Korea's role in the Ukraine War
For a crash course in Russian-North Korean relations and a hard look at recent claims from the Ukrainian and South Korean governments of thousands of ...
Breaking down Russia's 2025 war budget
The Naked Pravda talks to Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center fellow Alexandra Prokopenko about Russia’s 2025 draft budget, focusing on planned allocations...
The North Caucasian clan warfare behind a deadly dispute at Wildberries, ‘Russia’s Amazon’
The Naked Pravda speaks to Ilya Shumanov, the general director of Transparency International-Russia in exile, about the clan conflict at the heart of ...
America's expanding crackdown on RT and Moscow's covert influence operations
To discuss the recent explosion of American police and diplomatic activity targeting RT and Russian covert influence operations in the U.S., The Naked...
Iranian ballistic missiles have entered the Ukraine War chat
To find out where the Russian-Iranian partnership is headed and what, if anything, changes in the Ukraine War with Tehran sending ballistic missiles t...
The science of Russian Internet censorship and surveillance
To unpack the tools that restrict and monitor the modern-day RuNet, Meduza speaks to experts Sarkis Darbinyan and Philipp Dietrich. This week’s episod...
Russian conscripts and Ukraine's Kursk offensive
The Naked Pravda welcomes RFE/RL journalists Mark Krutov and Sergey Dobrynin discuss the course of Ukraine’s Kursk incursion and to understand why sen...