News about the war. Info about the situation on the front, Putin and Zelensky visit the front, more prisoner recruitment, Girkin has published the manifesto of his rag-tag angry patriot group, and an even more insane message from an even more rag-tag angry patriots.

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In this episode, I tried to make a basic overview of the post-Soviet prison culture, and how Putin relates to it and why you can't really be an expert of Russia if you don't understand it. It ended up being very long, chaotic and...well, I hope, entertaining. Cat decided to go utterly crazy today, and trying to compress a subject as deep and complex as this into a single episode also wasn't optimal. But hey, this isn't a news episode, this is just an in-between extra, so I don't really feel that bad about it.

Also, links to my previous, more in-depth prison culture episodes.

Part 1 - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/zaharchenko-and-prisons/id1070996136?i=1000419135897

On apple podcasts, because the link on my homepage does not work, probably because of the cyberattacks the page experienced in 2020. Will try to get a homepage link working soon as well.

Part 2 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3GVDUAAoZ7Ha9yjt9ENg5b

Because again, I'm not sure if the homepage will work. I hadn't realized how old these episodes actually were.

News coming out tomorrow. Happiness is mandatory!

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I'm back on twitter! And people are helping me grow again! My tag is @torquemadastark, please join and tell others. About the news - in this episode, I look at the blatantly fascist, bordering on totalitarianism new conscription laws that Russia has adopted. There's also quite a lot of introductionary things aimed at my new listeners and also information about how Russia has constantly lied about the draft. Oh, and Girkin's finally getting into trouble.

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Greetings, Comrades! As I'm recoding my news episode  now - and that's a difficult one - I'd like to present you our discussion with our friend Andrew Heaton from the Political Orphanage podcast and our recurring sidetracking expert, and current Mad Baron of California, Alex from History Impossible. We tried to understand what Socialism really is, what it means in the west and in my side of the planet - and in the end, why do we keep calling new phenomenon using 19th century terms and what is says about us.

Also, note that this is the first episode with our new theme song! I hope you like it, because...you know, a year in the war, it just felt wrong to keep using a Soviet army song, as kitch and ironic as it is. We're not throwing that one away, it's just that we have a new one, composed to us by a talented Estonian music writer Kristjan Thomas Haaristo.

Enjoy!

News coming soon - I'm using  the fact that  Anete just finished editing this to buy me some time for a better episode!

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Conflicts errupt in Russia among radical pro-war groups - Ramzan Kadyrov's Chechen thugs are in an open conflict with Girkin's buddies, the Russian ultranationalists. Normally, that would be the news - as it is big and important. This week, however, we learned that a FGS defector - an officer of Russian Secret Service - has defected and escaped to the west. And he's given an interview.

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Russian "war correspondent" has been blown up in St. Petersburg cafe, and who did it actually kind of doesn't matter. How it was done, and what such events mean for the country, now that's the important part. Oh, and Russian science has found a new low to fall down to. 

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Greetings! Our guest in this episode was a businesswoman, philantropist, writer and Ukraine war volunteer, Mitzi Perdue - who is now organising a charity  drive to ensure a landmine-free childhood for Ukraine. Enjoy!

Link to where you too can support the removal of landmines from Ukrainian fields:

https://donorsee.com/Ukraine

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In this episode, we finally have hard, documented proofs about how Russian propaganda creates fakes and I take a look at why exactly wagner group is more effective than the rest of the Russian army.

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This episode is about war crimes. Italian newspaper, La Repubblica posted the materials, given to the inernational criminal court, by Italian investigators. I read those materials - and then the UN reports, that have been published previously and...well, on one hand, you'll learn what's behind the more polite descriptions of events that mainstream press use. On the other, please, do take the trigger warnings in the beginning seriously. Because what I read...yeah, that was hard even for me.

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Greetings, Comrades! This time, I bring you an interview with one of Latvia's most prominent journalist and one of the most prominent LGBTQ+ commune people in Latvia, where we talk about the stupid side of Latvian politics, war, his experiences being a Latvian and growing up in Chicago and what he things about republicans. I enjoyed this interview thoroughly, even if I wouldn't be so aggressive about some of the political stuff as he was. Enjoy!

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