Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Troll: LUKE HARDING on Russia’s new Code War

Hold the front podcast page! The infamous Russia Report could well come out next week. What will it reveal? The Guardian’s Russia correspondent LUKE HARDING, author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem And Russia’s Remaking Of The West and first British journalist to be expelled from Russia since the end of the Cold War, joins Dorian Lynskey to look at what Putin really wants. How did Russia influence Brexit? Why did Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s Russian collusion flop so badly? Whatever happened to the classy, erudite KGB of old? Oh, and the Secret Plot against Chris Grayling.

• “You have to ask, why have Johnson and Cummings burnt so much political capital on suppressing this report?”
• “Donald Trump is seen in Moscow as the greatest success in Russian espionage history.”
• “The message of Salisbury was, You may forget about us but we will never forget about you.” 
• “Robert Mueller was like a boy scout going into Trump’s gambling den.”
• “Russian interference in Brexit definitely happened – whether you believe it was determinant or not.”

Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.

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