How Has Coronavirus Transformed International Relations and Russia’s Foreign Policy?
The pandemic has failed to bring geopolitical rivals together, but has it created new divisions, or merely amplified existing disagreements? And have any lessons been learned for dealing with other gl...
29 Okt 202121min
Dissecting the State Duma Elections
Podcast host Alexander Gabuev is joined by Elizaveta Fokht, a reporter with the BBC Russian Service, and Andrew Roth, Moscow correspondent for The Guardian, to discuss the outcome of the recent electi...
24 Sep 202136min
What Are the Implications of the Afghanistan Crisis for Central Asia?
Nargis Kassenova, a senior fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies’ program on Central Asia, and Temur Umarov, a research consultant at Carnegie Moscow Center, join podcast host Al...
10 Sep 202121min
A Closer Look at Russia’s New National Security Strategy
How does the latest version of Russia’s National Security Strategy differ from the last one, released in 2015? Does the inclusion in it of environmental issues mean that this is finally a priority for...
22 Jul 202135min
Where Will the Crackdown in Belarus End?
“Repression is spreading like gas in a room: as long as there’s space there, it’s going to expand.” What’s Alexander Lukashenko’s game plan in Belarus? Could the West have done more when protests brok...
4 Jun 202130min
What’s the Point of the Latest U.S. Sanctions Against Russia?
Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Andrey Movchan, a nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Maria Shagina, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Eas...
30 Apr 202126min
Russia and the Indo-Pacific
In the wake of the first summit of the Quad countries (the United States, Japan, Australia, and India), this episode of the podcast focuses on the grouping’s scope, its cooperation with other nations,...
31 Mar 202125min
Has Russia’s COVID Vaccine Gotten Lost In Politics?
Is Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine as successful as the Kremlin claims? Are political considerations really preventing it from getting approval in Western countries? Why is the vaccination rate...
30 Mar 202127min
