Imaginary wives, seized children, Wagner Group's Pornhub campaign

Show host Kevin Rothrock revisits noteworthy news stories in Russia from mid-March 2023 and celebrates 99 episodes of The Naked Pravda by reading some listener feedback.

Timestamps for this episode:

• (0:01) Evgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group paramilitary cartel starts recruiting on Pornhub
• (2:26) Russia knocks an American UAV into the Black Sea
• (3:52) The Russian Orthodox deacon who turned to Afro-Brazilian mysticism and invented a wife to cohost his anti-Ukrainian hate blog
• (5:44) How Kirill Butylin got sentenced to 13 years in prison for throwing Molotov cocktails at an army recruitment center
• (7:41) The story of Masha Moskaleva, the sixth grader taken from father after she turned in an anti-war drawing for art class
• (12:19) The latest srach (shitstorm) within the Russian opposition sparks a debate about sanctions relief and exit routes for “good oligarchs”
• (14:52) To celebrate 99 episodes of The Naked Pravda, Kevin shares some reviews from listeners

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