Kremlin File

What do Russians think about Putin’s war? Karine Orlova returns to Kremlin File to discuss the sentiment inside Russia against Putin’s latest war crimes campaign. 

Karine Orlova is a Russian journalist in exile, former contributing writer for The American Interest magazine, former correspondent for Echo of Moscow, which was cut off air and shut down after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. 

https://twitter.com/OrlovaKarine

https://substack.com/profile/88924046-karineorlova 

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Olga and Mo are joined by Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist and watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. With Putin lashing out on the world stage and purging the ranks, Andrei shares his POV on Russia’s failure in Ukraine and who is to blame.

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He’s been covering security services and terrorism since 1999. He is co-author with Irina Borogan of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, and most recently, The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. He is also a senior fellow at CEPA and contributes to the Moscow Times and various international publications.

https://twitter.com/andreisoldatov

https://cepa.org/our-people/andrei-soldatov/

https://agentura.ru/

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Inna Sovsun joins Olga and Mo to discuss how she and other MPs and Ukrainian citizens are facing the realities of Russia’s assault and war crimes. Inna is a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, and she shares a very personal account from a position of leadership in a country under siege. 

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Olga and Mo are joined by Andrea Chalupa – a journalist, filmmaker, and co-host of the excellent podcast GASLIT NATION.

Andrea is also a founder of DigitalMaidan, an online movement that made the Ukrainian protests the #1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide at a time when the mainstream media was obsessing over Justin Bieber’s arrest in Miami. 

https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa

http://www.andreachalupa.com/

https://twitter.com/Gaslitnation 

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Olga and Mo are joined by Kremlin File producer Jack Bryan to detail how Russia’s recently launched disinformation troll farm is targeting Ukraine and their place in Russian Hybrid warfare.

For further reading, please check out co-host Olga Lautman’s substack article:

https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/operation-cyber-front-z-russia-sets?s=r

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Olga and Mo are joined by Dr. Alina Polyakova of CEPA to discuss how the Transatlantic Alliance is standing up to Putin’s brutal assault on Ukraine.

Dr. Polyakova heads up the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and is a recognized expert on transatlantic relations, European security, Russian foreign policy, digital authoritarianism, and populism in democracies.

https://twitter.com/apolyakova 

https://cepa.org/ 

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Olga and Mo are joined by retired Major General Paul Eaton who discusses Russia’s shift in military tactics as they continue their assault on Ukraine. Russia is taking heavy military losses and are now targeting civilians.

Paul D. Eaton is the Director of VetVoiceFoundation and advisor to VoteVets.

https://twitter.com/PaulDEaton52

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Maria Avdeeva, a Ukrainian disinformation and national security expert, joins us from the ground in Kharkiv where she’s documenting the truth about the Russian invasion.

https://twitter.com/maria_avdv

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Olga and Mo assess the evolving landscape of Ukraine’s battle for survival in the face of Putin’s brutal campaign.  

Recommendations to send financial support:

Support for the War Effort:  https://bank.gov.ua/en/about/support-the-armed-forces

Support mental health with Lifeline Ukraine: https://lifelineukraine.com/en

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Olga and Mo are joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an NYU professor and scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders. Her articles are published in national and international media outlets with a column on CNN. Her latest book, “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present,” examines how illiberal leaders use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo to stay in power, and how resistance to them has unfolded over a century.

Ruth’s Lucid Substack: https://lucid.substack.com/p/welcome-to-lucid?s=r

Ruth’s website: https://ruthbenghiat.com/

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Olga and Mo discuss Putin’s escalating military and propaganda campaign against Ukraine and the implications for the Western world. 

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Olga and Mo begin to peel back the Russian layers behind January 6th.

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Olga and Mo are joined by H.K. Roy, who was a staff CIA Operations Officer (aka Case Officer) for thirteen years, serving in Latin America and in all regions of the former Yugoslavia. Roy discusses his book, AMERICAN SPY: WRY REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE IN THE CIA – a candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life and a few close brushes with death – and his work of fiction, KGB FILE ON AGENT ORANGE.

Since resigning from CIA, H.K. Roy has continued to support the global national security mission in Iraq, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere. He has published articles on intelligence operations in World & I Magazine, the Foreign Service Journal, and CIA’s Studies in Intelligence. Roy holds a JD degree from George Washington University and is fluent in multiple languages. He is an active supporter of Spookstock, an annual battle of the bands fundraiser for the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Spookstock is a private, invitation-only, and senior executive-only event, with no press or PR. Beneficiaries of Spookstock are the children of fallen warriors.

https://twitter.com/HKRoySpyWriter 

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In a special episode on Ukraine, Olga and Mo cut to the heart of Putin’s escalating threat to Ukraine. 

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