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Discover how authoritarian regimes twist history, power, and culture to survive, and what their tricks mean for us today. Each video reveals hidden mechanisms of control, shown through Russia’s past and present yet reaching far beyond its borders.
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Blood Money: What Russia’s Soldiers Actually Do With Their Millions (opens the original)
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In this episode, Elvira Bary follows Russia’s war money from the moment it lands in a recruit’s bank account. Soldiers use it to pay debts, renovate homes, buy cars, and support their families—but the money also gets swallowed by front-line expenses, commanders, corruption, scammers, criminal networks, and a consumer boom increasingly dependent on imported goods. The result is a strange war economy in which military service can look like a path to sudden wealth while the state keeps borrowing, c
Russia Wasn’t Ready: How Ukraine’s Lyman Counterattack Broke Russia’s War Myth (opens the original)
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In this episode, Elvira Bary examines why Ukraine’s counterattack near Lyman matters far beyond the territory it recovered. For years, the Kremlin’s central argument has been that Russia may advance slowly, but time is on its side and victory is inevitable. Then Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops back across more than 200 square kilometers in an area Moscow believed it had under control. The video looks at Russia’s distorted battlefield reporting, the angry reaction inside the pro-war Z comm
Crimea’s Property War: Who Owns the Land After the Ukraine War Ends? (opens the original)
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In this episode, Elvira Bary explains why Crimea is not only a military problem, a diplomatic problem, or a question of borders — it is also a property war. After Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, Ukrainian ownership was buried under a new paper world of Russian registries, forced documents, “nationalization,” citizenship rules, and “ownerless” property claims. Homes, land plots, vineyards, hotels, businesses, and seaside apartments could be seized, auctioned, reassigned, or sold to new owners. If
Russian War Criminals: Why Putin’s Generals Will Never Be Safe (opens the original)
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In this episode, Elvira Bary examines what may eventually happen to Russian officers accused of war crimes in Ukraine—and why Kremlin protection may not last forever. Ukraine has already built thousands of cases, international courts have issued warrants, and senior Russian commanders increasingly face risks even inside Russia. From the bombing linked by Russian military bloggers to General Alexander Chayko’s birthday gathering, to the long pursuit of Nazi fugitives after World War II, this vide
If Putin Wins: The Terrifying Reality of Russia’s "Victory" in Ukraine (opens the original)
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What happens if the war in Ukraine ends on Putin’s terms? In this episode, Elvira Bary looks beyond the victory parade and asks what Russia would actually inherit from success: a damaged relationship with Europe, a wartime economy that cannot simply switch back to normal, costly occupied territories, a powerful security apparatus searching for new enemies, and a political system that would learn one dangerous lesson—that aggression works. Putin’s supporters imagine victory bringing prosperity, r
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