Description
Today’s guest is Elizaveta Fokht, a journalist the BBC’s Russian-language service, who's also reported for Russian news outlets like Dozhd and RBK. Earlier this month, she and her colleague, Andrey Zakharov, wrote a spectacular story about a new media holding company called “Patriot,” which unites several websites with connections to Evgeny Prigozhin, the Russian catering magnate (who also dabbles in media, mercenaries, and God knows what else).
Read their report (in Russian) here:
https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-50632900
Read an English-language summary at Meduza here:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/04/why-so-negative
Follow Elizaveta on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/lizafoht
Support this very podcast here:
www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock
Music and audio:
Ну погоди, episode 14, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHd3sxpEbo&t=7s
Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3wC7gkMDQ
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Twitter ad revenue sharing
Russia's new Moon mission, Luna-25
Slow counteroffensive darkens mood in Ukraine
Sergey Vakulenko on the Black Sea naval war
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