podcast

Next Year in Moscow

by The Economist

Trailer: Boom!

01.07.2024 • 00:03:32

How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? It’s the question John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, gets ask...

The Modi Raj: Trailer

28.05.2024 • 00:04:58

Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyeing a third term atop the world’s biggest democracy. ...

Next Year in Moscow 9: Life and fate

02.03.2024 • 00:51:58

A year on from our last episode, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he ...

Next Year in Moscow: Update

24.02.2024 • 00:01:49

Alexei Navalny’s death has had a shattering effect on the people featured in this podcast - and on the idea of a free and peaceful Russia.  We had pl...

Next Year in Moscow 2: A beautiful life

04.03.2023 • 00:34:39

A decade ago Russia's middle class was larger and richer than it had ever been. “Russians are OK” was the title of a popular YouTube channel. But Vlad...

Next Year in Moscow 1: This damn year

22.02.2023 • 00:34:45

For Russians opposed to Vladimir Putin, everything changed the moment they awoke to news of the invasion of Ukraine a year ago. They felt a range of e...

Next Year in Moscow: Trailer

10.02.2023 • 00:03:48

When the shelling of Ukraine began a year ago, free-thinking Russians faced a fateful choice: lie low, resist or flee. Hundreds of thousands decided t...