In Moscow's Shadows

In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical

May 7, 2023

45:52

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Technocratic Legitimacy of Putin

00:58

Can Wagner Really Withdraw from Buckmoot?

00:36

Introduction

3min

The Importance of the Eye of Sauron

3min

The Limitations of Expertise

3min

The Importance of Self-Awareness

3min

The Technocratic Legitimation of Putin

3min

Putin's Legitimation Through Historical Succession

4min

The Tsars and the Russian Revolution

2min

The Kremlin's Control of the Church

3min

The Impact of Netflix on Russia's Propaganda

3min

10.

The Problem With the Putin System

3min

11.

Putin's Decline in Russia

3min

12.

The UJ-22 Drone Attack on the Senate Building in the Kremlin

3min

13.

The Ukrainian Campaign to Make the War Real in Russia

3min

14.

The Decline of the Ukrainian Victory Day Parade

2min

15.

The Diminution of Shoyu Gerasimov's Ammunition

3min

16.

Pragojin's Retraction Could Change the Nature of the War

3min

It's an easy journalistic shorthand to hall Putin a new tsar (I've done it myself), but what might it mean? Coronation weekend in the UK seems a fitting time to consider the pitfalls for Putinism of its pseudo-monarchic tilt.

In the second part a quickfire look at Ukraine's war of sabotage inside Russia, the incredible shrinking Victory Day parade, and the even more quickly shrinking Prigozhin.

My articles on the drone attack and sabotage campaign are in the Spectator and Sunday Times; the Meduza piece on Mediazona's research about proxy attacks is here.

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