Guest: Vasili Rukhadze is a Visiting Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations with area focus on the former Soviet Union and post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. He’s been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, where he researched new energy routes from the Caspian Sea basin to the European Union. Since 2012, he’s been a Political Analyst at the Jamestown Foundation. Music: Alien Sex Fiend, “Now I’m Feeling Zombified,” A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box, 2006.