Mark Galeotti
@MarkGaleotti
Mayak Intelligence, @UCLSSEES, @RUSI_org, @IIR_Prague. Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to global crime. Views my own
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As Mark Galeotti noted, arrests on bribery/corruption normally indicates feuding between 🇷🇺 power ministries.
MoD not seen similar lately. Ivanov became v rich creaming off funds from MoD contracts thanks to Shoigu, blamed by many for SMO failings.
One to watch closely
Some thoughts on how Twitter clips of Russian TV warp our perceptions of Russia and which media Russians actually see, following a couple of discussions on here with Mark Galeotti and Marc Bennetts kotelnaya.substack.com/p/russian-tv-t…
‼️📢 Does Putin's inner circle actually think Ukraine was behind the Crocus terror attack?
Don't miss the latest Carnegie Politika podcast, where Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 sat down with experts Mark Galeotti & Vera Mironova to discuss this and more.⬇️
carnegieendowment.org/politika/92272
Amazin' how lies become truths John Harris 'the shocking condition of our rivers.' England's rivers are cleaner than they've been since perhaps 1600 AD. Certainly since 1850 or so. And much, much, cleaner than 1950 or even 1980. But everyone believes the opposite. Why?
Why is Russia jamming plane signals across Europe?
As I write for Coffee House , it’s hard not to see it as one (quite small) part of generalised political warfare
spectator.co.uk/article/why-is…
Travelling provides an@opportunity to catch up on listening. Most April Fools fall flat imo, but the The Red Line - Podcast deep dive into San Marino’s fearsome threat with James Ker-Lindsay was inspired podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
La historia de Rusia condensada en 175 páginas. Gran ejercicio de síntesis de Mark Galeotti 👌Muy recomendable
In Moscow's Shadows 144: Of Talks and Thugs
In the first part, I talk about some of the issues raised by that recent article in Foreign Affairs by Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia whenever they actually happen.
In the second I dig into the
This is an interesting observation from Giorgio Comai - I think it will turn out that the various nationalist media outlets (also Tsargrad, for eg) essentially laid out a buffet of ideas and ideologies from which the Kremlin could take its pick. Pre-prepared and pre-packaged
SCSS#7, 16 April 2024 “Russia End State: Unravelling of Empire?”
The summary of the latest George C. Marshall Center online workshop is now up on my blog; participants were me, Dmitry Gorenburg, Pavel Baev, David Lewis, Dr Elizabeth Buchanan and Graeme Herd chairing
inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/scs…
Foreign Affairs published today the results of a most fruitful collaboration between Samuel Charap and yours truly, an article on the failed peace talks between Russia and Ukraine (March-April 2022). foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-….
Mark Galeotti And (c) claiming these clips provide insight into what the Kremlin ‘thinks’. I gave up paying attention to the frothing ages ago.