Welcome to our very first subscriber-only podcast from Providence! I am Mark Melton, the journal’s deputy editor. These podcasts are part of our new, exclusive online content that subscribers can receive along with subscriber-only videos, complete PDF copies of current and past print edition issues, a discussion forum, and more.

This first episode is an extended conversation with Matt Gobush, who spoke with us last year about his trip to and research on Latvia, and specifically Russian speakers there. In our normal podcast, the Foreign Policy ProvCast, we released part of this conversation, but in this version we’re giving you a deeper dive.

I hope you enjoy our new subscriber-only content, and be sure to come back to the website often to find more.