It has been a tough month. Happy upcoming Christmas!00:02:00 - Assassinations of Kirillov and Shatsky in Moscow 00:12:54 - SBU vs FSB 00:23:00 - On Putin's Direct Line 00:27:00 - Oreshnik mysteries 00:39:00 - "Retaliation strikes" against Rylsk and Kiev 00:43:30 - Drone strikes against Kazan's high-rise 00:52:12 - On Youtube and Viber getting blocked 01:00:50 - Ukrainians scamming Russians into throwing molotov cocktails 01:12:50 - AFU lowering the mobilization age 01:22:30 - Ecological disaster in Kerch strait

00:00:00 - What happened since our last convo 00:05:45 - What is the Donbass like nowadays? 00:13:00 - Russell "Texas" Bentley and the Volunteer Ethos 00:32:00 - More on the Donbass; Russian music for foreign volunteers 00:43:40 - Western volunteers on the other side 00:48:00 - Energy drinks and video games Alex and Jay both lost some of their equipment since we last spoke. Gear is very precious in a war zone, and we thought we'd support our friends by doing a little fundraiser for them so they can get some new mostly peaceful stuff. Please consider sending some of your crypto to the wallets below, dear whales and HODLers. 100% of the money will be sent to Alex and Jay and of course we'll show you the receipts. BTC: bc1q2vq3apd3yfjtdxqmpraak7yjx0tlf97th9fve3 ETH: 0x56dF594f6A5EED5D53B07D4d10fd6E63076C0c40 XMR: 45Asrm4N6dAFedCRLH4T9H69HJd38EDiHWRa5F8gKB2VBdgYVZVd9LfUP9d6UGeoLw6Q83jQ1Bi84XJE3ppLWC5QQrVGnyj USDT (TRX): TKsRskL4hUWWwkHUWaZZ2rBJk9B8sdxepe

Subscribe to our podcast for the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/rwapodcast The Syrian Arab Republic is no more. Bashar al-Assad has left the country. How did this happen, and why? What does the future of Syria look like now, and what about the Russian military bases? Let's take one last look at Syria before it collapses into one of those forever hellholes.00:00:00 - On secret prisons & Arab warrior spirit00:15:57 - Recap. Why the Syrian army failed00:28:50 - On backroom deals & Russian bases in Syria00:43:45 - Israeli invasion00:49:00 - Assad and family in Russia00:54:17 - Cryptocolonial analysis (tw: CONJECTURE TERRITORY)01:08:00 - Prigozhin conspiracy01:15:55 - On military collapse

Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.patreon.com/c/rwapodcast 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:30 - World War III blues 00:10:30 - Sleazy psychopaths vs pseudo-Religious fanatics 00:18:20 - Zaluzhny confessions 00:21:00 - Deep strikes against Bryansk and Kursk 00:25:45 - Oreshnik IRBM. Production, specs and inflicted damage. 00:35:30 - "implications" 00:42:24 - Are Ukrainians ready to negotiate? 00:47:18 - Zhdalker 2

We invited Nikolay, a student and vlogger who runs the "Videos from Mariupol" YouTube channel, to discuss his experiences during the first months of the SMO, how things have changed since Mariupol became a part of Russia, and what it was like to grow up in the post-Maidan Ukraine. We discussed his personal story, his evacuation from the city and what the rebuilding process looks like... There were also a bunch of questions from our subscribers that we asked him. Subscribe to our podcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rwa-interview-114692945

Subscribe to our Patreon for access to all episodes: patreon.com/rwapodcast The Central Asian front of the Russian Civil War is seldom talked about — it was remote and chaotic, the wild Russian frontier, full of its own "Cowboys and Indians". Today's Radio Deza features a Bolshevik General switching sides, a prodigal Romanov prince, a suicidal battle in the mountains and tales of lost treasure... It's 1919, and we're going to the Fergana Valley. Join us!

Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/111998481?pr=true Gumroad: https://russianswithattitude.gumroad.com/ And Boosty https://boosty.to/rwapodcast/posts/30dd9aa7-3337-4692-b589-3fd22eaac94c?share=success_publish_link 00:02:00 - Early life. Why did Vladimir Brovkin emigrate 00:17:00 - Post-war Leningrad 00:21:00 - Khrushchev: Hero or Villain? 00:31:30 - Beria and Stalin. How did Russia survive 00:44:40 - Vydvizhentsy & Stalin the Americaboo 00:53:50 - "Confronting real America was shocking": Vladimir's adaptation in the US 01:00:15 - Stephen Cohen, Richard Pipes & Brovkin's academic path 01:12:00 - US academic Soviet battle & the 90s 01:27:00 - Brovkin coming back to Russia in 2000 (in Yekaterinburg!) 01:40:20 - Blitz questions from the audience 01:55:10 - Why did Vladimir attack Korean photo shop cashier in 1997 Brovkin's books: https://www.amazon.com/Vladimir-Lenin-Putin-Identity-1913-2023-ebook/dp/B0CKFNV3RT

Subscribe to our Patreon to gain access to all of our episodes: https://www.patreon.com/rwapodcast In today's newscast, we cover a lot of ground: the arrest of Pavel Durov and the fallacy of the Sovereign Individual, some harsh words for Russian immigration politics (again), Kursk oblast as a Call of Duty theme park, the persecution of the Orthodox Church by the Kiev regime and, of course, the long-overdue update on Russian map painting. 00:00:50 - Durov arrested 00:14:00 - "Sovereign" techbro trillionaires vs the nation state 00:23:00 - Musk off 00:34:15 - UOC-MP banned in the Ukraine (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate) 00:48:40 - SITREP. Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions. 01:01:17 - Kursk situation. The Conscript Question. 01:14:55 - Foreign mercs & Tatar slave raid in Kursk 01:20:00 - Islamist revolt in Russian prison. Savva Fedoseev electoral campaign 01:28:20 - Russian missile strikes of August 26. Ukrainian drones in Saratov

A change of pace. We interviewed a French writer and translator of Russian poetry, Thierry Marignac, whose name i butchered hilariously at the start of the pod. He was good friends with Eduard Limonov and married his ex-wife who taught him Russian. He frequently visited the USSR and Russia as a guest and witnessed the rise and fall of the eXile firsthand. He translated one the greatest modern Russian poets, Boris Ryzhiy.

Gain access to all of our episodes: https://www.patreon.com/rwapodcast In today's RWA Newscast, we discuss the ongoing AFU raid into Kursk oblast and catch up with other news: the mysterious Ukrainian plot that was foiled with a phone call to D.C., the assassinations of Farion and Haniyeh, latest developments in annoying Russian laws and another gem in the crown of Late Putinism. Tune in for your regular dose of geopolitical drama & ask Nikolay questions about his recent Valaam voyage: 00:00:00 - AFU raid in Kursk oblast. Recap & theories. 00:21:00 - Nikolay's back from Valaam 00:24:55 - Failed Putin assassination? 00:30:00 - Farion murder. Zelensky vs aZov theory 00:40:07 - Haniyeh killed. Iranian situation 00:48:15 - Retarded Russian censorship laws 00:53:40 - Best features of Late Putinism 00:58:25 - SITREP (gamer moment) 01:06:30 - Wagner in Mali 01:11:04 - US-Russia prisoner swap 01:17:00 - Belousov purges & Spirit of 2014 series