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A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.

1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo

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A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.

1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo

    Silicon Bites #43 - Economic and Labour Issues Threaten to Derail Putin's War Machine and Invasion

    Silicon Bites #43 - Economic and Labour Issues Threaten to Derail Putin's War Machine and Invasion

    Edition No43 | 06-05-2024
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    SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
    https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain
    https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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    KYIV INDEPENDENT
    https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-may-use-british-weapons-to-strike-targets-inside-russia-cameron-says/
    https://kyivindependent.com/battle-of-chasiv-yar-begins-under-a-drone-infested-sky/
    https://kyivindependent.com/general-loss-of-chasiv-yar-likely-a-matter-of-time/
    https://kyivindependent.com/italian-defense-minister-rules-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine/
    https://kyivindependent.com/kharkiv-endures-new-wave-of-brutal-russian-attacks/

    THE MOSCOW TIMES
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/01/in-photos-russia-shows-off-captured-western-military-hardware-at-moscow-expo-a85005
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/03/my-moral-compass-demands-it-russian-emigres-rally-alongside-georgians-against-foreign-influence-bill-a85019
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/02/in-photos-georgian-riot-police-clash-with-protesters-rallying-against-foreign-influence-bill-a85010
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/03/kremlin-slams-dangerous-remarks-by-macron-about-troop-deployment-in-ukraine-a85028
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/all-about/russia-battles-historic-flooding
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/29/russias-ishim-river-swells-to-record-high-amid-widespread-flooding-a84982
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/22/russias-record-floods-submerge-uranium-mines-in-urals-reports-a84919
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/23/how-ukraine-war-is-stretching-russian-workers-to-their-limits-a84926
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/29/major-european-banks-paying-russia-more-in-taxes-than-before-ukraine-invasion-ft-a84985
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/23/10-years-later-russian-volunteer-fighters-recall-fueling-the-war-in-donbas-a84917

    FINANCIAL TIMES
    https://www.ft.com/content/f6ba327b-5200-4deb-ba95-fba3bbd6536a
    https://www.ft.com/content/b4a556b0-0402-4114-9428-869bd49cf23c

    OTHER ARTICLES
    https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/5/7454321/
    https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/05/european-agencies-sound-alarm-over-russian-sabotage-plots-ft-says/
    https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/02/russian-heart-eating-cannibal-released-from-prison-to-fight-in-ukraine-en-news
    ~~~~~

    USEFUL LINKS:
    Vatnik Soup
    https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi
    http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/

    Real World News
    https://kyivindependent.com/
    https://www.kyivpost.com/
    https://english.nv.ua/
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/
    https://meduza.io/en
    https://meduza.io/
    https://novayagazeta.eu/
    https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...

    Analysis
    https://www.ft.com/russia
    https://www.economist.com/
    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
    https://cepa.org/
    https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
    https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s...

    ~~~~~

    TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
    Save Ukraine
    https://www.saveukraineua.org/

    Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
    https://superhumans.com/en/

    UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
    Ukraine
    https://unbroken.org.ua/

    Come Back Alive
    https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
    https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

    UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
    https://u24.gov.ua/

    Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
    https://prytulafoundation.org

    NGO “Herojam Slava”
    https://heroiamslava.org/

    kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
    Przemysl
    https://kharpp.com/

    NOR DOG Animal Rescue
    https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
    ~~~~~

    Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
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    • 45 min
    406. Viktoras Bachmetjevas - In Absence of Contrition and Punishment for its Crimes can Russia Progress?

    406. Viktoras Bachmetjevas - In Absence of Contrition and Punishment for its Crimes can Russia Progress?

    Viktoras Bachmetjevas is a philosopher with an interest in ethics,
    especially the intersection of ethics and the philosophy of religion.
    Today we’ll be discussing issues as diverse as the threat from autocracy
    and oligarchy, corruption, and nepotism, and well as Forgiveness,
    contrition, and victimhood.
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    LINKS:
    https://twitter.com/VBachmetjevas
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoras-bachmetjevas-335a182/
    https://www.iwm.at/fellow/viktoras-bachmetjevas
    https://parisinstitute.org/faculty/viktoras-bachmetjevas/
    https://europeanstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/people/viktoras-bachmetjevas
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    BOOKS:
    Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives: 389 (Value Inquiry Book)
    by Daniel O'Shiel and Viktoras Bachmetjevas (2023)
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    https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain
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    TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
    Save Ukraine
    https://www.saveukraineua.org/

    Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
    https://superhumans.com/en/

    UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
    Ukraine
    https://unbroken.org.ua/

    Come Back Alive
    https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
    https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

    UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
    https://u24.gov.ua/

    Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
    https://prytulafoundation.org

    NGO “Herojam Slava”
    https://heroiamslava.org/

    kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
    Przemyśl
    https://kharpp.com/

    NOR DOG Animal Rescue
    https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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    PLATFORMS:
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
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    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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    • 48 min
    407. Anna Nemzer - Putin Started a War on Russian Media and the Truth Early in the 2000s and it Continues

    407. Anna Nemzer - Putin Started a War on Russian Media and the Truth Early in the 2000s and it Continues

    Anna Nemzer is a Broadcast Journalist at the Russian oppositional news
    network TV RAIN. She has produced an extraordinary series of documentary
    videos on key moments in Russia’s return to autocracy under Putin, and
    stages in the consolidation of his power over society and the media.
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    LINKS:
    https://pen.org/user/annanemzer/
    https://twitter.com/tvrain_english
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    BOOKS:
    Prisoner, Hardcover and Kindle (2016)
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoner-Anna-Nemzer-ebook/dp/B01BSXXTZ0/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jIiajkvRhnZkX66DLX4RCcAs5is6KHcG7B7iUG4SpofGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.ICsVK3kkMMfqzj3m7ZFw-8m2uya8sgOK0ZPN3w0SjV4&dib_tag=se&qid=1714845677&refinements=p_27%3AAnna+Nemzer&s=books&sr=1-3
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    ARTICLES:
    https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/the-closing-of-the-russian-mind-freedom-of-expression-in-putins-russia/
    ----------

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    https://www.saveukraineua.org/

    Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
    https://superhumans.com/en/

    UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
    Ukraine
    https://unbroken.org.ua/

    Come Back Alive
    https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
    https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

    UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
    https://u24.gov.ua/

    Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
    https://prytulafoundation.org

    NGO “Herojam Slava”
    https://heroiamslava.org/

    kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
    Przemyśl
    https://kharpp.com/

    NOR DOG Animal Rescue
    https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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    PLATFORMS:
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    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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    popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
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    Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

    • 50 min
    405. Ivan U. Kłyszcz - Chechnya: Putin's Pitbull or Achilles Heel? What Might it's Fate be After Kadyrov?

    405. Ivan U. Kłyszcz - Chechnya: Putin's Pitbull or Achilles Heel? What Might it's Fate be After Kadyrov?

    Ivan U. Kłyszcz is an analyst and researcher specializing in core issues
    of international security, notably great power competition, the grand
    strategy of major powers, and Russian foreign policy. In recent years,
    the research of Dr Klyszcz has focused on Moscow’s engagements with the
    countries of the so-called ‘Global South’, with particular focus on
    Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. His research has been extensively
    cited in international media (Al-Jazeera, BBC, Deutsche Welle, France
    24) and attracted the interest from diplomats, governments, and major
    NGOs.
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    LINKS:
    https://ivanklyszcz.com/
    https://twitter.com/IvanUlisesKK
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-ulises-kentros-klyszcz/
    https://www.rusi.org/people/klyszcz
    ----------

    ARTICLES:
    https://icds.ee/en/autor/ivan-u-k-klyszcz/
    https://ridl.io/auth/ivan-u-klyszcz/
    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/ivan-u-klyszcz
    ----------

    SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
    https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain
    https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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    TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
    Save Ukraine
    https://www.saveukraineua.org/

    Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
    https://superhumans.com/en/

    UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
    Ukraine
    https://unbroken.org.ua/

    Come Back Alive
    https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
    https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

    UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
    https://u24.gov.ua/

    Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
    https://prytulafoundation.org

    NGO “Herojam Slava”
    https://heroiamslava.org/

    kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
    Przemyśl
    https://kharpp.com/

    NOR DOG Animal Rescue
    https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
    ----------

    PLATFORMS:
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
    Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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    popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
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    Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

    • 45 min
    403. Marlene Laruelle - Has Vladimir Putin's Regime Embraced Fascism or is it Simply a Mafia Autocracy?

    403. Marlene Laruelle - Has Vladimir Putin's Regime Embraced Fascism or is it Simply a Mafia Autocracy?

    Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing
    fascism, in its annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism,
    attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right
    movements in Europe. These tendencies have accelerated with the
    full-scale war in Ukraine. So, does Russia now meet the diverse criteria
    for historic fascism, or it’s off-shoot, German Nazism? Russia has
    successfully muddied the waters, by branded itself as the world's
    preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifices during the Second
    World War. But Russia continues to weaponize and debase that legacy of
    WWII, embracing the same characteristics, policies, and tactics of the
    axis powers.
    ----------

    Marlène Laruelle is Research Professor of the Illiberalism studies
    department at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
    (IERES) at the George Washington University. Marlène is a French
    historian, sociologist, and political scientist who specializes in
    Eurasia and Europe, and is one of the most prolific and insightful
    Western experts on issues related to Russian nationalism and memory
    politics. Formerly, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Central Asia
    and Caucasus Institute and Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
    International Centre for Scholars.
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    LINKS:
    http://marlene-laruelle.com/
    https://elliott.gwu.edu/marlene-laruelle
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marl%C3%A8ne_Laruelle
    https://www.ifri.org/en/about/team/marlene-laruelle
    https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/marlene-laruelle
    https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/publications-ifri/ouvrages-ifri/russia-fascist-unraveling-propaganda-east-and-west

    ----------

    BOOKS:
    Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West (2021)
    Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (2021)
    Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites (2020)
    Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018)
    Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields
    (2018)
    Russian Eurasianism (2008)
    ----------

    ARTICLES:
    https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for-identifying-fascists
    https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/review-marlene-laruelles-russia-fascist-unraveling-propaganda-east-and-west

    ----------

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    TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
    Save Ukraine
    https://www.saveukraineua.org/

    Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
    https://superhumans.com/en/

    UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
    Ukraine
    https://unbroken.org.ua/

    Come Back Alive
    https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
    https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

    UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
    https://u24.gov.ua/

    Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
    https://prytulafoundation.org

    NGO “Herojam Slava”
    https://heroiamslava.org/

    kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
    Przemyśl
    https://kharpp.com/

    NOR DOG Animal Rescue
    https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
    ----------

    PLATFORMS:
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
    Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
    ----------

    Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
    like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
    popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
    being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as
    Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

    • 1 hr
    404. Natalie Sabanadze - Georgia's Maidan Style Protest Pushing Back Against Putinisation of its Politics

    404. Natalie Sabanadze - Georgia's Maidan Style Protest Pushing Back Against Putinisation of its Politics

    Natalie Sabanadze is Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program, at
    Chatham House. Natalie was Georgia’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg,
    and the EU and head of the Georgian mission to the European Union in
    May 2013. Prior to assuming her current position, Sabanadze worked as
    the senior adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
    in The Hague. She held a number of posts with the OSCE HCNM, including
    head of Central and Southeast Europe section and more recently, head of
    Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia section.
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    LINKS:
    https://twitter.com/natasabanadze
    https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/natalie-sabanadze
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-sabanadze-8a9b892a/
    https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/natalie-sabanadze-0
    ----------

    ARTICLES:
    https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/members-event/whats-next-ukraines-path-eu-accession
    https://carnegieeurope.eu/2023/05/17/who-is-afraid-of-georgian-democracy-pub-89746
    https://cepa.org/article/drugs-lies-and-secret-tapes-georgias-faltering-democracy/
    ----------

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    ----------

    TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
    Save Ukraine
    https://www.saveukraineua.org/

    Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
    https://superhumans.com/en/

    UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
    Ukraine
    https://unbroken.org.ua/

    Come Back Alive
    https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
    https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

    UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
    https://u24.gov.ua/

    Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
    https://prytulafoundation.org

    NGO “Herojam Slava”
    https://heroiamslava.org/

    kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
    Przemyśl
    https://kharpp.com/

    NOR DOG Animal Rescue
    https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
    ----------

    PLATFORMS:
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
    Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
    ----------

    Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
    like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
    popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
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    • 46 min

Customer Reviews

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