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The Russia Guy
Jun 6, 2019
E78: Five recent op-eds on ethnic riots, Iran dealing, Facebook, wormholes, and Surkov
Play • 31 min
No interview today. Instead, Kevin reviews the following five op-eds/essays (timestamps below):(2:19)Oleg Kashin in Republic: Why hasn’t GRU veteran Nikita Belyankin’s murder sparked ethnic riots in Russia?
https://republic.ru/posts/93868
(7:25)Vladimir Frolov in Republic: The U.S.-Israel-Russia summit is a chance for Moscow to find out what it's worth to Trump in Iran
https://republic.ru/posts/93851
(12:45)Dmitry Steshin in Komsomolskaya Pravda: A Maidan activist’s new public policy job at Facebook is a vatnik nightmare
https://www.kp.ru/daily/26986.4/4045597/
(17:23)Gleb Pavlovsky in the Carnegie Moscow Center: Russia meddles in other countries because it’s king of the global wormholes
https://carnegie.ru/commentary/79222
(25:37)Oleg Kashin in Republic: Vladislav Surkov’s personal mythology makes him the Kremlin’s indispensable man
https://republic.ru/posts/93796
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