The Russia File Podcast
1) Anti-US Influence Campaigns in Latin America: Understanding the Russia-Venezuela-Iran Triangle
Latin America has long been a playground for Russia’s anti-Western influence operations. But today Russia isn’t alone in this game: In recent years Iran has become an increasingly prominent player on ...Show More
2) The Role of Africa in Russia’s Geopolitics
Russia’s intensive involvement with the African continent goes back decades. During the Cold War, Moscow viewed Africa as its “natural” sphere of influence and a staging ground for active measures and...Show More
3) Georgian Politics After Controversial “Foreign Agent” Law
In December 2023, Georgia was granted official European Union candidate status, but the country's path to EU membership may now be at risk because of the recently adopted law “on transparency of forei...Show More
4) The Russian Aviation Industry Two Years after the Sanctions
One of the sectors targeted by U.S. economic sanctions is Russia's civil aviation. Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Boeing and Airbus, whose planes constituted 70 percent of Russ...Show More
5) Russia’s Battle around Reproductive Health and Women’s Rights
Russian authorities are taking tentative steps to limit access to abortion and other aspects of reproductive health, ostensibly to combat the demographic crisis, which has been amplified by Russia’s f...Show More
6) Russia on the Second Anniversary of the Invasion of Ukraine
Two years after Russia launched the invasion of Ukraine, Izabella Tabarovsky sat down with Maxim Trudolyubov, editor in chief of the Kennan Institute’s Russia File blog, to discuss where Russia is tod...Show More
7) Ukraine on the Second Anniversary of the Russian Invasion
Two years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Izabella Tabarovsky sat down with Mykhailo Minakov, the Kennan Institute’s senior advisor on Ukraine and editor in chief of its Focus Ukraine b...Show More
8) Buryatia and the High Toll of Russia’s War in Ukraine on Ethnic Minorities
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has highlighted some of its own domestic problems. One of them is the uneven economic development of Russian regions and another is the unfair treatment of ethn...Show More
Buryatia and the High Toll of Russia’s War in Ukraine on Ethnic Minorities
42:52 | Jan 24th, 2024
9) Belarus Three Years After Protest
In August 2020, Aleksandr Lukashenko, authoritarian leader of Belarus, denied electoral fraud and claimed landslide victory in his sixth presidential election. The regime’s violent crackdown on the ma...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.10) Berlin as a Home of New Russian Political Exiles
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Berlin has emerged as a crucial center of activity for both Ukrainian refugees and Russian political exiles. It is here that many known and emerging leaders of t...Show More