"People compare #Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin.

"So today we talk to #JacobSilverman about Trump’s #shitcoins and other #crypto schemes because they remind us so much of 1990s Russia and Yeltsin’s family corrupt deals."

#TheRussians pod w/ #EvgeniaKovda & #YashaLevine

https://www.nefariousrussians.com/p/shitcoins-for-shitocracy-wjacob-silverman
#USpol #MAGA #cronyism #cronyCapitalism #oligarchy #SiliconValleyRight #CryptoBros #tech #TechBros #DOGEbags #MoveFastAndLootThings

"The Atlantic, slightly more than a year ago, published an article called 'Decolonize #Russia' and just recently they published an article called 'The Decolonization Narrative is Dangerous and False.' So which is it?"

#IlyaMatveev

why the #RussianOpposition to Putin is mostly pro-#Israel & pro-war while being ardently anti-war in the case of #Ukraine

https://yasha.substack.com/p/russians-against-putin-and-palestine

#Palestine #RussianLiberals #LiberalHypocrites #LiberalWarmongers

#TheRussiansPodcast w/ #EvgeniaKovda #YashaLevine

"A friend of mine knows people who worked at a Prigozhin restaurant in St. Pete — one of those tourist boats on the Neva River. Apparently Prigozhin would run after his wait staff with a baseball bat. That's his management style." - Yasha Levine

#Prigozhin vs #Putin

https://yasha.substack.com/p/prigozhin-vs-putin

#Prigojine #Poutine #Wagner #RussiaUkraine #RussieUkraine

#TheRussiansPodcast w/ #EvgeniaKovda & #YashaLevine

"We talk to our old friend Brett Forrest about his new book Lost Son and about the #WarInUkraine — which he experienced firsthand as a WSJ journalist stationed in Kiev on the eve of the invasion and reporting from #Bucha right after the Russian army retreated from there."

"#LostSon" with #BrettForrest

https://yasha.substack.com/p/lost-son-with-brett-forrest

#RussiaUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #RussoUkrainianConflict #Russia #Ukraine #books #FBI #espionage #AlphabetAgencies

#EvgeniaKovda
#YashaLevine

"We’re leaving #SanFrancisco next month and decided to record an episode about Haight-Ashbury, where we’ve lived for the last year and a half, and about the neighbors we’ve gotten to know here — the local #homeless. We’ve developed a strange, maybe parasocial relationship with them — but it’s a relationship that’s still more real than the nonexistent one we have with our housed neighbors."

https://yasha.substack.com/p/the-homeless

#HousingCrisis #CriseDuLogement #Homelessness #SDF

#EvgeniaKovda
#YashaLevine

"For this ep Evgenia and I talk to #DaveAnthony, comedian and cohost of #TheDollop, about the politics and history of #podcasting.

"#Podcasts are such a big part of our culture now. (..) Turns out that this big boom started with a bunch of desperate, down-and-out white Gen X #comedians looking for another shot at getting their careers back on track."

#comedy #PoliticalCommentary

#EvgeniaKovda
#YashaLevine
#TheRussiansPodcast

https://yasha.substack.com/p/the-invention-of-the-podcast-with#details