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Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

And this is our monthly look at the politics of Russia and of Eastern Europe.

It's kind of a shame that one of my favorite podcasts recently ended.

That's the previously in Europe one. You might have known these guys. They were on my show a couple of times discussing things about politics here, and I was on theirs, and they've decided to quit that show,

because one of the hosts, well, he recently got a kid,

and that's a pretty big reason because they can't really air it. So I'll kind of try to contact them

and maybe figure something out because that was a great show about European politics in general.

And I was recommended to listen to it by one of my listeners, Peter,

and it was pretty great while it lost it, but yeah, current plans are to maybe cooperate with

them and release at least monthly, maybe, because, well, still, sometimes we have to talk

about politics here. But unlike usually, where I talk about some tragedies and whatever,

this time, well, I've picked some news stories from Russia

that might interest you.

They could be just fun in general, because I think that this month has been crazy and weird for everyone.

So, in a way, all these stories are the most

interesting elements that have happened recently. And although Navalny is still in prison and his

health is deteriorating and there are important stuff that is going on, it kind of all ties in

to these stories as well. For one, you better hide your bikes, I guess.

If you're a person who works with other people and some service industry,

yeah, I guess that has a brand new meeting, so to speak, now as well.

So, let's get started with our monthly look at whatever happened, meanwhile in Russia in March.

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