Soviet Union and shaping current Russia and it’s Government and Ideologies. The government of the USSR. History of the Soviet rule. Laws, culture and everyday life of a Soviet citizen. What did they see? How did they get by? What did they go through? And what is left after the collapse of USSR? The other side of the cold war - talking about politics in the EU, history of the USSR and the Eastern European region in general. Mostly for Americans, who also happen to be history geeks. Also, we'r ...
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A podcast about the comparison of parliaments in various countries, taking a look at the inner workings of the system, important parties, history of elections, politically interesting events and, of course, controversy. We embrace controversy.
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Gang warfare in Caucasus returns and they don’t waste time. Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechen gangs vs. Ingushetia and Dagestan and their own gangs. Criminalization of [...]By Curonian
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Ukraine’s returned to the oil refinery bingo, Russian opposition squabbles among themselves, investigation confirms what we all knew – that Navalny got poisoned – and [...]By Curonian
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Russian problems with drones at the front. Also Maxim Kalashnikov explains his GLORIOUS (extreme sarcasm) plans for the future of Russia. Which is basically modern [...]By Curonian
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First of all, congratulations (no, seriously) to North Korea’s U20 women’s soccer team. And in the more serious news, analysis why the ideological fithers of [...]By Curonian
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Girkin gives a short interview to Russian state media while his buddies and the Russian people in general have become utterly disillusioned with the war. [...]By Curonian
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Ernest and Goodwin story reach it’s natural conclusion, Russian hardliners are losing faith in their government and becoming doomers, wives of the mobilized get arrested. [...]By Curonian
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Gigantic explosion in Tver, 90’s are returning to Russia and why nothing will change for the better while Putin is in charge.By Curonian
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Ukrainians are causing a lot of problems for Russians in the Kursk region – but not as many as the Russian officers are causing for [...]By Curonian
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Russia counterattacks in Kursk region, but stalls near Pokrovsk. Z channels continue to whine about the ‘wrong’ people and are yet again struck by unpleasant [...]By Curonian
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Z Community is having a bit of a civil war, Putin wants to live forever and confuses medics, and…well, the Joe Bide’s America Adventures have [...]By Curonian
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Russian TV netvork TNT, their HBO equivalent, has just presented a new, state sponsored, “comedy” series about Joe Biden, visiting Russia, because the sanctions are [...]By Curonian
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A little bit of my birthday celebration, intertwined with utter and complete corruption in the Russian army. And a bit more info on Pavel Durov.By Curonian
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Arrest of Pavel Durov has caused panic and shock among the Russian troops and the Z community – as all of their military comms rely [...]By Curonian
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You’ll laugh, of course, but there has been another ISIS related terror incident in Russia. Also, the unbelievable has happened, and a small bit of [...]By Curonian
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We’re back – this time, with fresh news about the events in Kursk. Putin’s visiting candy factory in Azerbaijan and lying about Beslan, failing to [...]By Curonian
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Russian Economy and More ft. Andrew Heaton pt.2
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As I’m working on yet more news episodes, here is (the more global and philosophical) part 2 of our conversation with Heaton from Political Orphanage.By Curonian
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Kursk. Timeline, Theories and Vatnik Tears.
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What’s happening in Kursk region, what are the perspectives for the Ukrainian side, what are the goals of the operation and what can be reallistically [...]By Curonian
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Russian Economy and More ft. Andrew Heaton pt.1 (Yes, Kursk ep is coming)
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Episode about events in Kursk oblast is coming very soon – it’s just that in my case, I literally am waiting until some people call [...]By Curonian
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News about the war in Ukraine! Z-vantiks comment on the prisoner exchange, including Girkin’s wife. And Russian soldiers are losing not only their gadgets, but [...]By Curonian
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Linux Propaganda ft. Sean from Advent of Computing
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As the big windows PC crash swept over the world, Russia remained unaffected. To explain why it was so, I invited my dear friend Sean [...]By Curonian
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Greetings, Comrades! As I’m busy, working on my news episode and dealing with all the personal stuff I’ve mentioned on previous episodes, I want to [...]By Curonian
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A Nazi from the Wagner group has been killed in Mali, Peculiarities of the national Crimea vacation and, of course, more “kartopolov law”. Oh, and [...]By Curonian
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Russians accidentally strike Romania with a few drones, continuation of the Kartapolov law (the gadget ban), and finally, Igor Girkin’s buddy, Maxim Kalashnikov muses about [...]By Curonian
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Comrades! Today I’m bringing You the most exquisite of vatnik tears! I thought it was not possible even theoretically, but a new breakthrough in idiocy [...]By Curonian
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News from the front: sanitary zone that Putin promised has been created, but there are nuances, hipocrisy of the whole Z-public, Ukraine winning the drone [...]By Curonian
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As I heard the news about the attempted Trump assassination, Alex from History Impossible reached out to me, and we had a conversation to make [...]By Curonian
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Putin and Zelensky react to Trump’s assassination attempt, Lukashenka backstabs Russia and news from the front.By Curonian
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Russia strikes a children’s hospital in Kyiv, Z-vatniks complain about the average Russian attitude towards the war and The Moscow Times gets declared illegal in [...]By Curonian
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Future of Warfare ft. John Michael Godier
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In this episode we are joined by our dear friend, a Sci-Fi author, YouTuber and Futurologist John Michael Godier to discuss the future of war. [...]By Curonian
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Situation on the front, Trump’s “peace plan”, Russians react to Kanye West and some good, hopeful news for Ukraine at the end.By Curonian
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News about the front – status of women and disabled people and also what do the Z channels think about the US election.By Curonian
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Russian relatives, my aunt and denunciations
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In this special episode, I explain what my aunt experienced in St. Petersburg and why I was so worried about her.By Curonian
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An in-depth look at the 23rd of June terror attacks in DagestanBy Curonian
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Z channels react to Putin’s visit to North Korea, outrage about Russian athletes going to olympics, ATACMS used to strike Russian territory, and food delivery [...]By Curonian
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In this episode: hostage crisis in Rostov-on-Don, look at Putin’s article for a North Korean newspaper, some deligthful Z-wankery and economic news as Russia’s drowning [...]By Curonian
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I go through telegram posts of various pro-war, pro-Putin public figures, looking at what they write about the recent developments in the war and the [...]By Curonian
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Putin spews blatant lies and sabre rattling at western journalists for 3.5 hours, new propaganda instructions (they’re not very good), and latest updates about the [...]By Curonian
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I went on Quora to answer people’s questions about the war in Ukraine. Some of them were meaningul, but…well, there’s plenty of Putin’s trolls to [...]By Curonian
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Girkin remains in prison after his appeals, Macron sends instructors to Ukraine and insists that the west should allow their weapons to be used to [...]By Curonian
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Today I am joined by a guest from the Canadian military who appproacheed me asking about whether or not I have made an episode about [...]By Curonian
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Greetings, Comrades! In this episode: Events on the front lines, Russia lies about their successes, Belousov unsurprisingly corrupt and dissappoints the pro-war people in Russia. [...]By Curonian
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Belousov has replaced Shoigu as Russia’s minister of defense – and for some reason, western media reports this as a threatening thing for Ukraine. In [...]By Curonian
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…so, I’ve been doing this for a decade now…
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Eastern Border 10th anniversary episode. A bit more meta-podcast stuff than usual, but don’t worry, plenty of important news as well. Discord invite link: https://discord.gg/HCu6J5hSBy Curonian
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We’re back! Putin just got inaugurated, but he’s actually just lost all legitimacy. Russia’s throwing around nuclear threats again, but at the same time Gazprom’s [...]By Curonian
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The Soviet Who Saved the World (ft. Alex from History Impossible)
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While I was in Texas, enjoying the honeymoon I knew I had to record stuff, because the show won’t wait for me, but I did [...]By Curonian
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Part 2 of what we’ve learned and experienced in Texas. Don’t worry, the episode with Alex about Stanislav Petrov is incoming, and so are horrible, [...]By Curonian
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Visiting the Political Orphanage, with Andrew Heaton
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In this episode, I’m hanging out live with our friend Heaton and we discuss the war, terrorism, politics and other fun stuff that you can’t [...]By Curonian
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Greetings, Comrades! We’re just married, in Texas, and saw NASA stuff. Back to news stuff on wednesday!By Curonian
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This is one of those episodes where I am riding the: “Okay, I was off for a few days, now I’m married, so what’s happe…oh…oh [...]By Curonian
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Greetings, Comrades! I’m gettinng married in a few hours. And on this special day, I wanted to give you a bit of a throwback, Soviet [...]By Curonian
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