Kevin's guest today is well known in Russia to Echo of Moscow listeners and readers, and English speakers might know her as a contributing writer at The American Interest, where some of her latest articles address Russia’s captured Ukrainian sailors, the arrest of American investor Michael Calvey in Moscow, and a whole lot more. Please welcome to The Russia Guy Karina Orlova.In this interview, Orlova talks about how Russia’s corrupt legal system drove her to journalism. She describes her life as a Russian journalist living in Washington, D.C., and argues at length how the Republic Party is a threat to American democracy. She also explains how she manages to write about insider Russian politics from thousands of miles away.Read her work at The American Interest:https://www.the-american-interest.com/v/karina-orlova/“A Show Trial, and The Death of Putin”https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/02/04/a-show-trial-and-the-death-of-putin/“The Futile Search for a Russian Ideology”https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/02/14/the-futile-search-for-a-russian-ideology/Support this very podcast here:www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockMusic:Ну погоди, episode 14, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&t=7sОлег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ

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