GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic.
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LINKS:
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746
https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti
https://www.rusi.org/people/galeotti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti
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SPEAKER:
Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but
in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing
politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and
anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime,
security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and
Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University.
He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary
Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal
United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs
at New York University from 2009 to 2016.
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BOOKS:
Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024)
Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022)
Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New
Way of War (2022)
Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin
(2021)
Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan
War 1979 (2021)
Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong
(2019)
Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019)
Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018)
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WAR STUDIES:
Mark Galeotti: Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (2024)
Mark Galeotti: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the
Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023)
Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August
2008 (2023)
Mark Galeotti: Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the
mujahideen (2023)
Mark Galeotti: Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian
Crusade 1283–1435 (2023)
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
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Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
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Come Back Alive
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Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
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Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
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NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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