In this episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff sit down with Steven Pifer. Ambassador Pifer, a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings, is also a former State Department official who, among other things, served as ambassador to Ukraine. 

In another excellent episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff sit down with Keith Gessen, a founding editor of n+1 magazine, a non-fiction writer, a novelist, a professor, a translator, and a hockey enthusiast, for a wide-ranging conversation we think will be quite the...

In this special edition of Russian Roulette, we’re extremely pleased to sit down with Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. We caught the VPM following a public event at CSIS (which we link to, below). We...

In this episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff sit down with Judy Twigg, an expert on the health and demographic landscape of Eastern European and/or post-Soviet countries, to get updated on the current state of affairs when it comes to of health care, health policy,...

In this political economy-themed episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff sit down with Steve Crowley, an expert on labor politics in post-Communist countries, to talk about labor relations and protests in Russia. Then, they chat with Vadim Grishin, an accomplished...

Russian Roulette goes nuclear. Starting with a mailbag question asking about nuclear force modernization and its repercussions, Olya and Jeff jump into a conversation with Ulrich Kühn, an Associate and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for...

On this edition of Russian Roulette, Olga and Jeff sit down with Brian Whitmore, Senior Russia Analyst at RFE/RL and host of the podcast The Power Vertical, for a wide-ranging conversation about the role of disinformation in Russian grand strategy, the upcoming Russian...

In this special joint podcast between Energy 360 and Russian Roulette, Ed Chow (Senior Fellow, Energy & National Security Program), Olga Oliker (Senior Adviser and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program), and Jeffrey Mankoff (Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and...

In this special joint podcast between Energy 360 and Russian Roulette, Ed Chow (Senior Fellow, Energy & National Security Program), Olga Oliker (Senior Adviser and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program), and Jeffrey Mankoff (Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and...

On this edition of Russian Roulette, Olga and Jeff geek out Russian military analyst-style. First, they sit down with Mathieu Boulegue, a partner at the risk management and strategic research consulting firm AESMA, to discuss the current state and future evolution of the...

On this latest edition of Russian Roulette, Olga and Jeff chat with Geraldine Fagan, the author of Believing in Russia: Religious Policy After Communism, about the current state of religious life in Russia and the relationship of the state to religions and faith...