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00:00:00 - On the failed Ukrainian Kursk offensive

00:13:30 - SITREP. Kurakhovo and Toretsk conquered

00:21:30 - Deepstate & Greenland

00:26:15 - Lost Russian Nordic clay

00:31:45 - Yakut Knife 1v1 knife battle

00:43:00 - On Yakut culture

The DEEP DIVE into the Azeri plane crash, ethnic lobbies in Russia, the Chechen question and the ideology of Pan-Turkism is dropping very soon!

It has been a tough month. Happy upcoming Christmas!
00:02:00 - Assassinations of Kirillov and Shatsky in Moscow

00:12:54 - SBU vs FSB

00:23:00 - On Putin's Direct Line

00:27:00 - Oreshnik mysteries

00:39:00 - "Retaliation strikes" against Rylsk and Kiev

00:43:30 - Drone strikes against Kazan's high-rise

00:52:12 - On Youtube and Viber getting blocked

01:00:50 - Ukrainians scamming Russians into throwing molotov cocktails

01:12:50 - AFU lowering the mobilization age

01:22:30 - Ecological disaster in Kerch strait

00:00:00 - What happened since our last convo

00:05:45 - What is the Donbass like nowadays?

00:13:00 - Russell "Texas" Bentley and the Volunteer Ethos

00:32:00 - More on the Donbass; Russian music for foreign volunteers

00:43:40 - Western volunteers on the other side

00:48:00 - Energy drinks and video games

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:30 - World War III blues

00:10:30 - Sleazy psychopaths vs pseudo-Religious fanatics

00:18:20 - Zaluzhny confessions

00:21:00 - Deep strikes against Bryansk and Kursk

00:25:45 - Oreshnik IRBM. Production, specs and inflicted damage.

00:35:30 - "implications"

00:42:24 - Are Ukrainians ready to negotiate?

00:47:18 - Zhdalker 2

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00:02:00 - Early life. Why did Vladimir Brovkin emigrate

00:17:00 - Post-war Leningrad

00:21:00 - Khrushchev: Hero or Villain?

00:31:30 - Beria and Stalin. How did Russia survive

00:44:40 - Vydvizhentsy & Stalin the Americaboo

00:53:50 - "Confronting real America was shocking": Vladimir's adaptation in the US

01:00:15 - Stephen Cohen, Richard Pipes & Brovkin's academic path

01:12:00 - US academic Soviet battle & the 90s

01:27:00 - Brovkin coming back to Russia in 2000 (in Yekaterinburg!)

01:40:20 - Blitz questions from the audience

01:55:10 - Why did Vladimir attack Korean photo shop cashier in 1997

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In today's newscast, we cover a lot of ground: the arrest of Pavel Durov and the fallacy of the Sovereign Individual, some harsh words for Russian immigration politics (again), Kursk oblast as a Call of Duty theme park, the persecution of the Orthodox Church by the Kiev regime and, of course, the long-overdue update on Russian map painting.

00:00:50 - Durov arrested

00:14:00 - "Sovereign" techbro trillionaires vs the nation state

00:23:00 - Musk off

00:34:15 - UOC-MP banned in the Ukraine (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate)

00:48:40 - SITREP. Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions.

01:01:17 - Kursk situation. The Conscript Question.

01:14:55 - Foreign mercs & Tatar slave raid in Kursk

01:20:00 - Islamist revolt in Russian prison. Savva Fedoseev electoral campaign

01:28:20 - Russian missile strikes of August 26. Ukrainian drones in Saratov

A change of pace. We interviewed a French writer and translator of Russian poetry, Thierry Marignac, whose name i butchered hilariously at the start of the pod.

He was good friends with Eduard Limonov and married his ex-wife who taught him Russian. He frequently visited the USSR and Russia as a guest and witnessed the rise and fall of the eXile firsthand. He translated one the greatest modern Russian poets, Boris Ryzhiy.