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Ukraine: The Latest

'Putin has become a caricature of himself’: Understanding Russia with Mark Galeotti

Ukraine: The Latest

Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley

Russians, Vladimir Putin, Daily News, Society & Culture, Jets, Ukraine, Army, Documentary, Volodymyr Zelensky, News, Russia-ukraine Conflict, History, Guns, Russia, War, Tanks

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dr Mark Galeotti is a leading expert on Russian history and security. He runs the influential and fascinating podcast and blog ‘In Moscow’s Shadows and is the Director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence and also an Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI.


We wanted to hear from Galeotti himself about Russian society, politics and statecraft. Without further ado, here’s David Knowles' conversation.


Listen to Mark Galeotti's podcast "In Moscow's Shadow": https://podfollow.com/1510124746

Listen to The Telegraph's foreign affair podcast, "Battle Lines": https://podfollow.com/battle-lines-israel-gaza


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0:00.0

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0:05.8

To us, it's the sound of success.

0:09.0

It means your systems are secured.

0:11.0

Your vulnerabilities eliminated. your business stronger, and all is quiet.

0:18.2

Because we've stopped a cyber attack before it even started.

0:21.3

SRM, your first call. before it even starts.

0:26.0

S.R. M. Your first call for cyber security.

0:29.7

Search your first call to find out more.

0:37.5

Mark, thank you so much for your time. Can we start with a rather broad question? What do you see as the big issues for Russians today?

0:41.5

I mean for ordinary Russians the issues are essentially

0:47.0

apparently nothing to do with the war in practice

0:51.0

everything to do with the war which in some ways sums up frankly how Russians are trying to look at their situation anyway.

0:57.0

I mean at the present inflation is at around 7.5%, but a lot of food products in particular are

1:05.1

substantially higher and some utility costs as well. And wages certainly are not

1:10.2

keeping up with that. At the same time it's a very cold snap in Russia or

1:16.8

certainly European Russia and thousands in some cases actually probably at worst a couple hundred thousand

1:25.0

Russians have been without heating because heating plants have gone down

1:30.0

pipes have exploded and such like. And on one level then this sounds like almost

1:36.8

the usual regular concerns of Russians. However lurking behind it is of

1:42.0

course the war.

1:42.8

I mean, first of all, this obviously there's the constant fear that there will be some kind of new

1:46.6

mobilization.

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