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Welcome to Angry Planet. I am Matthew Galt. And I'm Jason Field.

We've got Mark Gollyaudy on the show today. I have no prep. I have no intro. If you're following the international situation. We are recording this on March 1st. I'm giving you the time stamps because the last episode we recorded which is also about the Ukrainian conflict. Some of the conversation

was invalidated mere hours after we had it which was kind of fascinating. That's how quickly things are

moving right now. If you know Mark has been on the show if you're a listener

several times. I think he's the most I think you've been on more than a dozen times now. You've

been coming on for years. You're a guy that knows a lot about Russia.

You've written a dozen books or more,

sometimes about specific conflicts,

some time more wide-ranging.

Mark, thank you for coming onto the show.

How are you doing? I'm doing okay, deeply depressed by what's going on, but you know, in those circumstances and given the time, you've basically set me up as the sort of angry planet man with no life.

Here I have at your disposal.

Well, let's give for new listeners you may be tuning in.

Can you give me your CV CV a brief CV where are you

work on I mean I at the moment I run my own little boutique consultancy company

Mayak Intelligence looking at Russian politics and security issues. I'm also an honorary professor at

University College London and I'm an affiliate with a different bunch of think tanks,

Rusey Council on Geostrati, Institute of International Relations Prague.

I'm kind of mainly an academic, I spent time at the foreign office, I've been involved in in think tankery

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