The Eastern Border

I gathered everything that we know for sure and did some proper analysis on what happened, so here you go. Prigozhin's death with all the facts, possible versions of events and proper analysis. Better than what you'll get anywhere else. 

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Breaking, and as it happens. Verified data. Part 2, after more info is known.

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First news episode with our new microphone. Russia says it doesn't need democracy, Z-patriots now seriously advocate for "finding out" stuff about NATO, and why the Luna-25 mission was such an epic failure and why it matters. Oh, and Wagner Group is being pushed out of Africa too.

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News about the war. Situation on the front, the "meanwhile in Russia" segment, which contains a lot of human rights abuse, and also I got hacked yesterday. 

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Today I'm talking about my conversation with the Ukrainian officer, responsible for Russian PoW's in Zaporizhizye region, a bit on the other stuff that happened to me while I was over there, and respond to some things you asked about yesterday's episode.

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This is the name that was chosen to be the title of Navalny's letter. The first one that he's posted via his team after the latest sentence of 19 years. The problem is - if you pick a title like that, it puts a certain responsibility on You - or more likely Your team. You have to take it seriously, any message with such a title ought to be witty, well-written, explosive and thought provoking. The 'collective west' likes their subtle references, nuances and symbolism. This could have been great. But then Navalny's team absolutely failed to live up to the title. And nobody there actually gives a shit. And Navalny has neither read the books, nor seen the movie nor even heard of Hunter S. Thompson.

This is one of those cases, where it is very likely that his PR team picked a "cool sounding title" gave it to Alexey and he, without any additional information or knowledge, wrote what he thought would be expected with such a title.

There is a bright lining to all of this, however. If I get my PhD in communications science, then I know that I'll be using this letter in class to show how terrible form can undermine content - made all the worse when the content is about how important proper form is. Enjoy!

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Greetings, Comrades! I'm back from Ukraine, there are things I need to catch up on, stuff happening, articles to write, and lots to talk about. For the next few days I'll be once again releasing episodes daily - otherwise we'll reach Carlin levels of podcast lenght. This time, as I managed to talk with some economists, I wanted to talk about the material side of why I think Russia will be facing internal struggles pretty soon. Treat this as a companion episode to the Russia's Suicidal Consciousness one. Oh, and there's some weird news too.

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Greetings from Krivy Rih! Recording in a cottage in Zelensky’s home city about the news related to the war.

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I think I just experienced the most Gonzo thing in my life. This...this was a hell of a night. We got arested by Ukrainian border guards on the Transnistrian border, due to an angry, drunk man, who was wearing nothing but his underpants. Also, lost my GoPro. 

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Greetings, Comrades! Before I make a news episode (as there has been a lot of things going on) I’d like to give You my first interview from Kyiv, with an American enterpeneur Mark, who’s been helping Ukraine and is now working towards driving more investment here. Enjoy!

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