Podcasts by Shes In Russia
A podcast where two best friends — one in St. Petersburg and the other in Brooklyn — call each other and talk about Russia.
Further podcasts by Olivia Capozzalo and Smith Freeman
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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108: "Pogrom" from 2020-05-31T18:44:41
Are riots good? Are protests good? Plus Lily gives the etymology of the word pogrom.
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107: Ukrainian War Prop from 2020-05-24T17:49:47
Family history and Ukraine's war-time propaganda machine in Lugansk.
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106: Telegram Saga from 2020-05-18T21:20:27
Lily gets updates on coronavirus in Russia from America and tells the story of Telegram's failed blockchain platform.
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105: Potato Healing from 2020-04-26T17:50:15
Petersburg doesn’t care about corona, Russian medicine, Soviet nostalgia and Ivan Chai.
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104: Krestos Voskres from 2020-04-19T18:37:40
Russian Orthodox Easter greetings and cake, Lily registers her new car.
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103: My Brilliant Friend from 2020-04-12T17:09:47
Lily's finally reading Ferrante. Also a small COVID-19 in Russia update. And a tour of an abandoned experimental soviet neighborhood built in the late 1920s (?????????????? ?????????//Kondratyevsky...
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102: Coronareunion from 2020-04-05T17:59:24
In these times of troubles, SIR is back to update you on Russia’s response to COVID-19.
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Undefined Hiatus from 2019-06-12T22:59:23
Undefined Hiatus by Olivia Capozzalo and Smith Freeman
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101: An Evening with Norstein from 2019-05-29T22:50:29
Lily went to see an artistic evening with animator Yuri Norstein, best known for his movies Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales.
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100: Eurotrash Rennovation from 2019-05-23T13:24
Lily returns to St. Petersburg. We talk about Soviet interior design, the Mongol Yoke and ordering Kosher on Aeroflot.
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99: Taking a Shvitz from 2019-05-15T22:01:09
We tell the tale of the legendary 10th St. baths in New York. Also known as The Shvitz or the Russian and Turkish Baths or simply The Baths, the place has been co-owned by two Soviet immigrants sin...
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98: Tragic Gorbo from 2019-05-08T12:56:16
We watched Werner Herzog's latest documentary, Meeting Gorbachev.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev wast the last general secretary and only president of the Soviet Union. He's known for suppo...
97: Severe Russophobia from 2019-04-30T15:01:20
FALSE CLAIM: SIR is run by Putin trolls
FACT: SIR is run by two brilliant lady humans who are here to dispel myths about Russia
Russian Embassy's report The Russiagate Hysteria: a Case...
96: Pink Beets ft. Olia Hercules from 2019-04-26T00:48:23
We talked to Ukrainian-born, London-based chef and cookbook author Olia Hercules about some of her delicious family recipes, summer kitchens, Georgian food you only get in Georgia and dishes from h...
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95: Viking Voyage ft. Polya Shubina from 2019-04-16T13:15:06
Special guest and dear friend Polya once sailed across the North Atlantic ocean on a viking-style ship. Now's she's written a book about it based on her notes and drawings from the onboard.
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94: How Now Maddow from 2019-04-09T13:16:20
Dissecting Rachel Maddow's screen vom and crimes against journalism.
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93: Vyborg Express from 2019-04-02T16:21:58
Lily went to the great medieval city of Vyborg and gawked at abandoned buildings and Finnish tourists.
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92: Elite Terror from 2019-03-26T21:40:08
Why the right loves Solzhenitsyn and his Gulag writings.
Anna Akhmatova's everyday life of squalor, drama and paranoia during the Terror.
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91: Ladies' Decameron from 2019-03-19T11:48:03
Yulia Voznesenskaia was part of the Leningrad dissident women's movement that formed in the 1970s. Later, as an emigre in Germany, she wrote the Women's Decameron — the story of ten women quarantin...
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90: Death Bliny from 2019-03-12T16:38:39
What happened to all the death-commemorating and erotic traditions of everyone's favorite bliny-consuming, effigy-burning holiday, Maslenitsa? Here's the history of the week-long, slavic-pagan-chri...
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89: Surkov Circus from 2019-03-05T12:35:41
Popularly referred to as the puppet master and the shadowy man, Vladislav Surkov is back on the public stage with a manifesto on what he happily refers to as Putin's Russia. We break down the ideas...
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88: Sidewalk Talk from 2019-02-26T13:18:51
Icicles falling from buildings kill people in Russia every year, but this winter, walking outside in St. Petersburg is even scarier than usual.
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87: Soviet Multiki from 2019-02-19T13:05:43
SIR is joined by Crocodile Gena, Cheburashka, Vinni Pukh and Hedgehog in the Fog to discuss myths, techniques, legendary figures and beloved classics of Soviet animation.
Watch all th...
86: Borsch Phantom ft. Alissa Timoshkina from 2019-02-12T13:36:54
Founder of London supper club KinoVino Alissa Timoshkina talks about why Russian-Soviet cuisine is so hard to define, plus shares memories of her childhood kitchen in Siberia and beautiful, mouth-w...
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85: Domestic Violence ft. Yulia Gorbunova from 2019-02-05T13:47:50
We talk with Yulia Gorbunova, a researcher in the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch, and author of a recently published report on domestic violence in Russia and the state's re...
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84: Stolovaya from 2019-01-29T19:17:46
The history of collective dining and the soviet cafeteria — utopias of factory kitchens and kitchen-less apartments, the science of soviet food consumption and where the design of the stolovaya as ...
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83: Quality Russians from 2019-01-22T22:22:28
Why BuzzFeed news and Rachel Maddow suck and a little update on Russian president Putin and Belarusian president Lukashenko's holiday meetups.
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82: Donbass, the movie from 2019-01-15T13:54:34
Maybe the only critical analysis of the new movie Donbass (Dir. Sergei Loznitsa) that you're gonna get, folks (in English, at least).
This non-documentary, allegedly based on real events a...
81: Boys Town from 2019-01-09T02:10:57
The failings of Michael McFaul, Boys Town scandals, and why Lily is probably not a spy.
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80: Tsvetaeva New Year from 2019-01-02T16:14:06
This fine New Year we read and discuss texts by and about 19th c. Russian/Soviet/queer/polyglot poet Marina Tsvetaeva.
Read Tsvetaeva's poem New Year, translated by Caroline Lemak Brickma...
79: Ored Recordings ft. Bulat Khalilov from 2018-12-25T17:51:11
The co-creator of the ethnographic recording label Ored Recordings (@ored-recordings-1), Bulat Khalilov, talks to Smith about traditional music from various ethnic groups from the Caucasus. The ep ...
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78: Merch Perch ft. Sergei Pakhotin from 2018-12-18T21:51:15
The creator of streetwear merch producers Sputnik1985, Sergei Pakhotin, talks to Lily about why he's not a designer, the importance of subtle irony in political commentary, DIY punks in Belarus and...
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77: Comic Sans ft. Andrei Konyaev from 2018-12-12T05:35:29
The history of standup comedy, reality TV, and what makes media in Russia independent. Our very special guest is Andrei Konyaev, founder and editor in chief of N+1, co-host of Kuji Podcast, math pr...
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76: How Propaganda Works ft. Tamara Eidelman from 2018-11-27T05:00:34
Historian, teacher, and author Tamara Eidelman talks to us about her recently-published book ??? ???????? ?????????? (How Propaganda Works), published by Individuum.
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75: Et Tu, Russia? from 2018-11-20T05:00:18
We are doing a popup of new Russian fashion designers on Dec 8th & 9th at 332 E 4th St, New York, NY. Follow things: https://www.instagram.com/fortochka_, http://fortochka.site/.
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74: Gop-stop from 2018-11-13T05:00:18
We are doing a non-digital project, wherein we sell clothes made by Russian designers for two days in December in New York City: fortochka.site
Why do slavs squat? The eternal question. Th...
73: The Babushka Society from 2018-11-06T05:00:07
Two friends meet Baba Yaga and her army of babushkas in modern day St. Petersburg.
A radio drama made in collaboration with Benita Klavis (Benjamin Davis and Nikita Klimov). Written by Ben...
72: Bryansky Les ft. Laura Williams from 2018-10-29T23:18:44
Last month we trekked to a small village deep in the woods near the Ukrainian border to visit a certain legendary American and her horses.
This episode is dedicated to the life, work, and...
71: American Made ft. Grace from 2018-10-23T04:00:13
School shootings, how their symbolism and aesthetics continue to echo Columbine, and whether or not they're preventable.
This week's ep is unfortunately apropos of the mass murder at the ...
70: Attention Dvor from 2018-10-16T13:45:54
The mystical St. Petersburg courtyard, the rural homestead, the royal court. This week we talk about the architectural and emotional history of the Russian dvor.
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69: Kadyrov, Don't Call Me ft. Zukhra from 2018-10-10T04:40:03
Joined by our amazing special guest, Caucasus and MMA expert, Zukhra, we talk about how people from the North Caucasus relate to larger Russia, Khabib vs. Connor, why you shouldn't insult Caucasian...
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68: Tweedle D' Skripal from 2018-10-02T16:05:41
Super recognizers come one come all! The plot thickens in the case of the helpless Russian tourists visiting the lovely town of Salisbury.
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67: Dacha San from 2018-09-25T20:40:26
The Russian dacha wasn’t always ? one-family weekend house symbolizing a return to the land and folksy country virtues. Lily tells Smith the more complicated story.
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66: Streets of St. Beetlesbug ft. Pasha from 2018-09-19T08:59:56
Smith came to St. Petersburg and we went around recording our trials and tribulations.
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64: Kitchen Table ft. Nastya Pankina from 2018-09-03T19:14:30
A discussion in Lily's kitchen about race paradigms, Gosha Rubchinskiy, censorship in Thaw-era film, and why Russia is the greatest country on earth.
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63: Terrible from 2018-08-28T15:44:52
We give our very in depth and diverging two cents on Keith Gessen's new novel A Terrible Country.
There are spoilers, be warned.
SPOILERS: 50:16 - 55:01 and 56:49 - 58:47
62: Expat Scumbags from 2018-08-21T04:27:18
An informal conversation where we talk about (among other things) a particular type of male expat in Russia, their relationship to women and sex, and the time Lily revealed herself to be nothing be...
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61: Whipping Boy, Telegram pt. 2 from 2018-08-15T19:01:12
Part two of a two part series on the saga of Telegram in Russia. This week we give you a news update on the case, explain encryption, discuss one of the heroes of this story, Pavel Durov, and raise...
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60: Bear with a Stick, Telegram pt. 1 from 2018-08-07T14:25:28
Part one of a two part series on the saga of Telegram in Russia. This part is the one where we tell you more generally how the internet is regulated in Russia, why we care about Telegram, and how i...
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59: Prison Tattoos ft. Mark Bullen from 2018-07-31T17:32:07
We learn about the history of the Russian-speaking mafia and its intricate system of prison tattoos speaking with a specialist in the subject, Mark Bullen, a US-based former UK cop.
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58: Unnamed Peninsula from 2018-07-24T14:44:27
Lily visits a certain well-known Russian-speaking peninsula and learns that since its annexation, things have changed. And mostly not for the better.
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57: Telman’s Market from 2018-07-17T15:46:41
The story of Moscow’s (in)famous Cherkizon market, the 90s born “city within a city” known for its cheap prices, über-wealthy owner Telman Ismailov, rampant corruption, and horrible living and work...
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56: We Are Not Russia from 2018-07-10T04:00:04
Budapest local Zsolt tells Lily and her dear friend Liz about growing up in Soviet-occupied Hungary, why everything that's Russian is bad, and how Hungarian prime minister Orban Victor's feelings t...
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55: I'll Ask Her from 2018-07-03T04:00:14
Before the ever-encroaching Euro-Americans got their grubby hands on Alaska, Russian frontiersmen were colonizing the peninsula with the help of a fur trade-bead racket. Smith tells Lily the story....
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54: Grand ft. Katerina Novikova from 2018-06-26T04:00:24
We talk with head of press for The Bolshoi Theater, Katya Novikova, about the cultural significance of the institution, Ballet Nureyev, and how the theater used to be overrun with cats.
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53: Men Can't Sew ft. Alissa Klots from 2018-06-19T04:00:04
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European University professor Alissa Klots talks to us about early Soviet domestic labor and pos...
52: Lily Feels Funny from 2018-06-12T04:00:04
Lily and Smith talk about dating without language, parallel lives, and romanticizing America.
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51: Malicious Hooligan ft. Slava Mogutin from 2018-06-05T04:00:02
Artist, activist, and writer Slava Mogutin talks to us about being exiled from Russia, outing Zhirinovsky, and the fetishization of military uniforms.
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50: MIRVelous ft. Alicia Dressman from 2018-05-29T04:00:12
Nuclear policy specialist Alicia Dressman talks to us about ballistic missiles, Cold War weaponry, and what "the Russia threat" means to her.
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49: Offended Sensibilites ft. Alisa Ganieva from 2018-05-22T04:00:02
A conversation with award-winning author Alisa Ganieva about her upcoming neo-noir detective novel Offended Sensibilities and the formation of a new kind of past-focused patriotism in Russia.
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48: Victory Day On Palace Square from 2018-05-15T04:00:12
On May 9, Lily went out into the city and collected stories from people celebrating Victory Day.
On that day, people in Russia and much of the former USSR celebrate Nazi Germany's surrend...
47: Golden Boy Tsoi from 2018-05-07T00:00
This week we listen to music by 1980s Leningrad legend/cult figure Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino. Plus we tell some meaty stories about Tsoi's life and the late Soviet / early Perestroika rock scene.
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46: Elena Kostyuchenko at Columbia from 2018-05-01T04:00:16
Novaya Gazeta's Elena Kostyuchenko on why she decided to report on Chechnya, what exactly foreigners misunderstand about Russian media censorship, and why her journalism isn't trying to change peop...
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45: Where's Lily? from 2018-04-24T04:00:03
Smith asks Lily about her life in Russia. Lily talks about why she feels she has to explain basic bitch feminism all the time, the pecularities of black American cultural appropriation in Russia, a...
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44: Moscow's Trash Collapse from 2018-04-19T01:59:19
In the suburbs of Moscow people have been fighting with local government to solve what has now clearly become a region-wide garbage management crisis. To make matters worse, it's in the largest urb...
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43: Lenin on the Lower East Side from 2018-04-06T00:00
On top of an unassuming building on the LES of Manhattan there is an 18-foot tall copper statue of Vladimir Lenin, gesturing to Wall Street.
This week Smith tells Lily what she learned abo...
42: Kemerovo from 2018-04-03T07:00
This week SIR tells the story of the recent tragic fire in Kemerovo through voices from the city.
On Sunday March 25, a fire broke out in a mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing 6...
41: Russian Soul Inspectors ft. Hannah Gais from 2018-03-27T04:07:43
We've got Hannah Gais on to talk about the phrase the "Russian soul." We cover the phrase's origin and subsequent adoption by the West, its contemporary uses amongst unhinged Twitter personalities...
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40: The House Behind the Vacant Lot from 2018-03-20T04:37:19
This week we are co-presenting -- with Event Horizon Magazine and translator Isaac Wheeler -- the English-language debut of author Olga Onoyko. We're devoting this episode to Olga's surreal, dream-...
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39: Maybe Putin Won't Be President Anymore from 2018-03-13T03:59:07
On March 18 Russians will vote to elect a (possibly new) President to lead the country for the next 6 years. This week SIR changes it up, handing our mics over to three millennial, liberal-leaning ...
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38: Women's Day Hooray from 2018-03-06T05:15:13
In Russia International Women's Day is celebrated widely every March 8 since 1917. At some point in the Soviet era, the holiday (whose original incarnation is a strongly Socialist-rooted celebratio...
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37: Indict Me from 2018-02-27T05:16:36
Russiagate unfolds: on Feb. 16, 2018. Former FBI director and current US Special Counsel Robert "the Swan" Mueller III published an "unprecedented" indictment of 13 Russian people and 3 Russian com...
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36: We Love Banya from 2018-02-20T14:30:56
The Russian banya -- the body/soul cleansing, health stimulating spa ritual cum social club. This week we talk about the significance of the banya in Russian culture, why it's very much not just a ...
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35: Latvia ft. Kristaps Andrejsons from 2018-02-13T05:36
We're kicking off our ongoing series on former Soviet countries with Kristaps Andrejsons, host of The Eastern Border podcast and, incidentally, a Latvian.
Our conversation runs the gamut: ...
34: Surfing The Net ft. Igor Belkin from 2018-01-30T05:14:09
This week we shoot the shit with Igor Belkin, journalist, media person, "blogger", about the Russian Internet (Runet). We've got Livejournal in the early 2000s, quintessential Runet memes, and mena...
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33: Space Cadets from 2018-01-23T05:08:21
This week we tell the story of Russian and American space programs -- the race to space, why "free men" should get there first, Russian bear hugs, and the (lack of) politics in space.
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32: Translation Station ft. Kevin Rothrock & Isaac Wheeler from 2018-01-16T05:30:54
This week we discuss the theory and daily practice of translation, joined by two honored guests and translators.
Our first guest is Kevin Rothrock, Senior Editor and Translator at Meduza ...
31: Beaches Go To Brighton from 2018-01-09T05:05:34
This week we were both in NYC and took the opportunity to spend the day talking to people in Brighton Beach, aka Little Odessa, aka the neighborhood of choice for Soviet immigrants. We spoke to peo...
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Taking a break this week from 2018-01-02T22:50:59
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30: 2017 Round Up from 2017-12-26T23:12:19
This week we select clips from some of our favorite episodes of the year. Happy New Year.
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29: Bourgeoisie Tree from 2017-12-19T06:44:55
This week Lily tells Smith the tale of the Russian Christmas/New Year's tree. Pagan anti-demon rituals, Peter the Great shaking and moving, a pro-tree Pravda op-ed by a party leader: Lily plots the...
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28: Reading Russian Rainbow from 2017-12-12T05:14:22
Cozy up for story time. This week we bring you a reading of two texts translated from Russian -- a short story called "Thirteen" by Alisa Ganieva and an excerpt from a novel called "The Gardener is...
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27: Tit4Tat from 2017-12-05T05:08:21
This week we're checking in with “Russiagate”/ the “Russian matter” [?????????? ????]. You will learn: what Michael Flynn’s plea deal is and why there's a fuss about it; and what happened to RT Ame...
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26: Small Shuttered Palace ft. Molly Zuckerman from 2017-11-28T05:10:28
This fall, European University at St. Petersburg was shut down under dubious circumstances. We talk with Molly Zuckerman about the school's contentious history with government and the plight of for...
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25: Bloc Chain Bitches from 2017-11-21T05:15:47
It would seem that governments are finally starting to cotton on to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The Russian government is no exception. This week we cover exactly what cryptocurrency...
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24: Black October Roundtable (of us) from 2017-11-14T05:59:55
How did the Bolshevik Revolution and the actual establishment of the Soviet Union inspire and encourage activists and intellectuals of the African Diaspora? With what specific mechanisms of hard an...
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23: Healthcare Bear Stare from 2017-11-07T05:22
How has the Russian healthcare system transformed since 1991? How much does the average Russian doctor earn now? This week we bring you an overview of healthcare in Russia today, from how insurance...
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22: Moms in The Motherland from 2017-10-31T04:11:18
On this week's episode we bring you the political mother. We trace the history of the Soviet conception of motherhood, interview an honest-to-goodness Russian mom, and talk about three recent trage...
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21: How To Be A Human and Not Fuck Up ft. Olya Polyakova from 2017-10-24T16:49:51
This week in the Petersburg studio (Lily's room) we're joined by social entrepreneur, activist, and all around inspiring human, Olya Polyakova.
We talk about how she documented her arrest...
20: Mini Leviathan from 2017-10-17T14:52:05
We talk with Lily's friend Nastya all about Russian movies since perestroika. Well we were supposed to, but we lost most of the recording. So instead we bring you a baby episode about heating pads ...
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19: Baby's First Year from 2017-10-10T11:48:26
Another variety show! This time we listen to clips from U.S. media specifically from the first year of Putin’s first term as president, resuming our peanut gallery position with light commentary an...
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18: Ryumochnaya Tour, 2017 from 2017-10-03T05:56:44
This is the ryumochnaya - a humble drinking house featuring hard liquor, maybe some beer, an assortment of open-faced sandwiches, pickles and perhaps some other simple, hearty fare. Also known as t...
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17: Stand By Me (and James Clapper) from 2017-09-26T07:02:11
Rob Reiner’s latest production is an absurdly sincere piece of civilian propaganda -- the freshly minted Committee to Investigate Russia (website + trailer starring Morgan Freeman), whose advisory ...
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16: Russia and America Are Different Countries ft. Sean Guillory from 2017-09-19T08:18:20
With Sean Guillory of the SRB Podcast, we map out the Russian Left (not just Navalny folks!), question why Russia is always expected to mimic America, and go on some fruitful tangents about the lik...
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15: Russian Rap "Rial Tolk" from 2017-09-12T07:51:46
This week’s episode is all about Russian-language rap: the history, how to think about race in a non-American paradigm, and a nice set of samples from some Russian artists.
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14: Rap Battle and Kirill Serebrennikov from 2017-09-05T05:16:25
This episode we discuss three things with Lily’s dear friend Maksim: a NYT op-ed that posits Russia as America’s foil, the recent rap battle between Oxxxymiron and Gnoyniy, and the dubious arrest o...
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13: Russia Variety Show! from 2017-08-29T03:47:57
On this episode we switch it up a bit and bring you a menagerie of clips; from special CIA movies made for Reagan, to the second-hand embarrassment of HRC’s “reset” button moment, to the voice of t...
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12: Rasputin Peasantry from 2017-08-22T05:21:53
It's 1905 and this is the story of how a Siberian peasant mystic w/ apparently real healing powers and a propensity for debauchery and assault befriended the last royal family of Russia (and contri...
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Episode 11: Crimea, It Existed Before 2014 from 2017-08-15T04:10:29
Wait, was the annexation of Crimea illegal per international law? To answer this question, we start at the beginning -- the 15th century, when Crimea was ruled by the ottoman empire and was the cen...
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Episode 10: Soviet Absence and Where The Jews Aren't from 2017-08-08T04:23:29
The topic for this week is writer/journalist Masha Gessen’s 2016 book Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (despite our nitpicking in th...
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Episode 9: She's in America from 2017-08-01T13:26:05
Changing up the format for this week, we decided to do a little check in with American politics, in case you need help keeping up. Plus some stories from Lily’s daily life in Russia. Smith presents...
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Episode 8: Khrushchev and His Apartments from 2017-07-25T14:31:34
On this episode Lily tells Smith about the housing crisis in the Soviet Union and how Nikita Khrushchev sought to solve it, namely by building lots of prefabricated concrete apartment buildings all...
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Episode 7: Don Jr. is a Pretty Prompt Emailer from 2017-07-18T18:07:25
It truly feels like reality is trolling you when a central topic for debate in American politics and media involves a mediocre (at best) Russian-Azerbaijani pop star, his real-estate mogul father, ...
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Episode 6: Resurrecting Pussy Riot from 2017-07-11T19:37:04
Pussy Riot was/is a mostly anonymous feminist activist/performance art group formed in Moscow in 2011, in a time when widespread protests (main protest slogan of the time=”For fair elections”) were...
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Episode 5: Totoro, Catbus, Dovlatov! from 2017-07-04T14:24:28
This week it’s story time. Lily talks about the stairwell in her new apartment and then reads a short story by Sergei Dovlatov called 'The Colonel Says I Love You', published in the New Yorker in 1...
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Episode 4: Oliver Stone Likes Putin's Judo Statue from 2017-06-27T05:33
Between 2015 and 2017 Oliver Stone met and chatted with President Putin on film, the result of which is The Putin Interviews, a 4-part series that aired on Showtime (US) and Channel 1 (Russia) this...
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Episode 3: Russian Witch-Hunt Lite from 2017-06-05T23:37:23
Yes, Trump seems to be some kind of horrible stimulus-response automata, with a weirdly specific vendetta against [most] people. But maybe he's not wrong when he says all this Russia stuff is a wit...
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Episode 2: Alexei Navalny and These Poor Police Officers from 2017-05-30T19:44:06
The past several months have seen some of the biggest protests in recent Russian history, and they've been largely galvanized by the work of one man: Alexei Navalny.
Navalny is well known...
Episode 1: Putin and Snowden Probably Never Met from 2017-05-30T19:40:46
In May of 2013 Edward Snowden leaks thousands of documents to reporters demonstrating the breadth of surveillance by the NSA on the American people. In June, he lands in Moscow seeking asylum from ...
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Introduction from 2017-05-30T19:06:27
A little intro to our podcast, She's In Russia -- our small attempt to ward off Cold War II.
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