Russia, Today

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian journalist, and editor-in-chief and CEO of the popular Russian independent magazine The New Times. The magazine has now been blocked by government censors for reporting on the war in Ukraine. Until last week, when the station was taken off the air, Albats was also host of a long-running radio show on Ekho Moskvy. The author of The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia–Past, Present, and Future, she is a member of the Persuasion board of advisors. In this week’s conversation, Yevgenia Albats and Yascha Mounk discuss the quickly-evolving nature of the Putin dictatorship, how ordinary Russians view the invasion, and the fate of the free Russian press in the face of a new wave of repression. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.1	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.
0:18.0	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:25.0	Barclay's here for the land of football.
0:30.0	You know, Putin invested billions and billions in the army during the last years
0:36.8	when there were all these windful profits that were coming out of huge oil prices.
0:41.8	So they assumed, as far as we understand, they were going to take control
0:48.7	over the capital of Ukraine here in three days. And we see now pictures from Ukraine. We see that apparently Russian troops have problems with logistics.
1:00.0	They have problems with delivering gas.
1:04.0	They have problems with rotation.
1:06.0	Because billions of dollars were stolen.
1:10.0	Because each and every general, each and every member of the Putin's closest entourage has a
1:18.0	immense villas, immense yachts and not just one but several these are people whose life was based on
1:28.6	making money inside Russia but spending this money outside Russia in the luxuries of Europe and the United States.
1:38.8	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:58.0	It has now been a little over two weeks since Russian troops invaded Ukraine started to bombarded cities, went on Vladimir Putin's mission of enlarging the Russian Empire and ending Ukraine's existence as a nation.
2:08.6	The resistance from Ukraine has been more impressive, smart, skillful, more admirable, more courageous, more idealistic
2:18.6	than we could have imagined.
2:22.1	The response from the West has been much stronger than I feared in my initial
2:26.7	podcast on this with George Packer, for example. There even is a new form of the idealistic foreign brigades we saw during the Spanish Civil War
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