“The Naked Pravda” speaks to BuzzFeed News correspondent Chris Miller about the U.S. government’s decision to discard 45 ventilators sent by Russia...
Книги автора - Kevin Rothrock
Belarusian propaganda: From courting the West to taking Russia’s cues
“The Naked Pravda” speaks to Alexey Kovalev about his two most recent investigations into Belarusian propaganda: a decade-old PR campaign to ingrat...
‘RuNet Sovereignty’: How Russia is trying to isolate its Internet segment from the rest of the world, maybe
More crippling regulations and censorship saddles the Russian Internet every year, but it remains a space for surprisingly free speech and remarkab...
‘Instead of her face, I saw a pizza’: How women in Russia are fighting back against sexual assault
What compels rape survivors in Russia to come forward publicly? Are women’s rights advocates optimistic about making the country safer for women? H...
‘Conspiracy theories’: What Americans and Russians reveal about themselves in the stories they tell about each other
Conspiracy theories in America and Russia are booming and even converging today. What do these false narratives say about the two countries’ ...
Finding the poison: Dr. Marc-Michael Blum explains the analytical chemistry needed to identify nerve agents in patients
‘Meduza’ interviews biochemist Marc-Michael Blum about how analytical chemistry is able to identify nerve agents in patients and what the outlook i...
Stephen Cohen’s legacy
“The Naked Pravda” speaks to historian Sean Guillory about the significance of Stephen Cohen’s work on Nikolai Bukharin, about Cohen’s place in Ame...
‘Academic Freedom’: The fight over political activism inside Moscow’s Higher School of Economics
An in-depth look at controversial amendments to the internal rules and regulations on political activism by students and faculty at Moscow’s Higher...
‘Tabloids and an inferiority complex’: The business and political strategy behind the media’s biased Russia coverage
A recent study by Russia’s state media says half of Western reporting about Russia is “negative.” It turns out that a single tabloid journali...
‘The Information Nation’: Kremlin researchers and forensic journalists intersect at Russia’s black market for leaked personal data
Kremlin computer researchers and forensic journalists are natural enemies, but both groups sometimes rely on illegally traded leaked databases. Med...
Russia’s coronavirus vaccine: Assessing the risks and research behind ‘Sputnik V’
Meduza asks two American experts on healthcare and demography in Russia and Eurasia about “Sputnik V” – the coronavirus vaccine Moscow has approved...
Poisoned in Russia: Alexey Navalny fights for his life as a deadly trend catches up to the country’s top oppositionist
Meduza reviews Alexey Navalny’s mysterious illness and looks back at some recent poisonings in Russia to get a sense of what he’s up against.
...The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
“The Naked Pravda” speaks to Thomas de Waal, Jeffrey Mankoff, Arzu Geybulla, and Kevork Oskanian about the causes and potential future of the Nagor...
‘Executive power in Russia’: How we know what we know about Kremlin politics and what to expect from Putin’s new Constitutional shakeup
Vladimir Putin has proposed a redistribution of executive power in Russia. Or has he? Let’s dive deep into the politics of the Kremlin and th...
‘The Naked Pravda’ premiere trailer: Meduza’s new English-language podcast
The Naked Pravda highlights how Meduza’s top reporting intersects with the wider research and expertise that exists about Russia.
...For Russian eyes only: U.S. voter data, hackers, and the story that wasn’t
‘Meduza’ asks three analysts working on cyber-threats, digital diplomacy, and Russian politics about a controversial, misleading report published t...
‘Starting WWII’: Today’s war of words between Russia and Poland over the history of the late 1930s
Four historians explain why assigning blame in WWII is more complicated than it seems and how the fight over memory in Russia and Poland muddies th...
‘Constitutional Gymnastics’: Russia’s strange initiative to keep Vladimir Putin in office for years to come
The Russian authorities are marching forward with sweeping reforms to the country’s Constitution. What laws are being bent or trampled in the...