In Moscow's Shadows 158: A Hectic Week in Russia

Where to start? The prisoner exchange and subsequent furore over released dissidents' statements? More arrests of senior military figures? The bizarre shenanigans over a controversial merger in Russian online business? Wagner's heavy losses in Mali? I try tackling them all. NB: Updated 5 August to reflect Ilya Yashin's subsequent further comments on the war. The BNE Intellinews article I mentioned is here. The podcast's corporate partner and sponsor is Conducttr, which provides software fo...