In this special collab episode betweenObscuristan and The Fire These Times, Karena Avedissian and Anna are joined by Daniel Voskoboynik to discuss the life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and what his death means for those of us not quite at the heart of the Russian empire.

Obscuristan and The Fire These Times are proud members of⁠⁠ ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠⁠⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: the Mutual Aid Podcast⁠⁠,⁠⁠ Politically Depressed⁠⁠,⁠⁠ and⁠⁠Antidote Zine⁠⁠. To support FTP please head out to⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done byAntidote Zine and will be published on The Fire These Times’ transcript archive.

For more:

• Karena Avedissian is onBluesky

• Obscuristan is onInstagram 

• Daniel Voskoboynik is onBluesky and has anewsletter and awebsite

• The Fire These Times is onBluesky,IG and YouTube and has awebsite⁠ ⁠

• From The Periphery is on⁠Patreon⁠,Bluesky,YouTube⁠,Instagram, and has awebsite⁠

Credits:

Hosts: Karena Avedissian and Anna | Guest: Daniel Voskoboynik | Music: Sarven Yapar⁠⁠ | TFTT theme design:Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠ | FTP theme design:Hisham Rifai⁠ | Sound editor: Anna | Team profile pics: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Episode design: Elia Ayoub | Producers: Elia Ayoub and Anna

From The Periphery is built by Elia Ayoub, Leila Al-Shami, Ayman Makarem, Dana El Kurd, Karena Avedissian, Daniel Voskoboynik, Anna M, Aydın Yıldız, Ed S, Alice Bonfatti, israa abd elfattah, with more joining soon!

The Fire These Times by Elia Ayoub is licensed underAttribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International