Mark Galeotti - 90's Style Gangster Shootout in Central Moscow within Sight of the Kremlin Walls.

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. In this episode 90's Style Shoot-out in Moscow and Russian Opposition Descends into Destructive Squabbles & Battles.
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SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER
A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns.
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CHAPTERS:
00:02:35 The wife who really was the power powerhouse behind the creation of Wildberries.
00:04:26 The overt criminality of the 1990s, now actually taking place in the centre of Moscow.
00:07:29 Promotion / fundraiser: for Ukrainian documentary project.
00:13:16 When the state wants to use violence, it has umpteen methods at its disposal.
00:14:34 It's more a symptom of the state's inability to control its unruly agents in Chechnya.
00:16:32 There’s very little likelihood of the Russian Federation in its entirety breaking apart.
00:19:41 It's clear that China as a state is supporting Russia, through a plethora of businesses.
00:23:54 Every country is interested in its own self-interest, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.
00:28:19 Trump has committed himself to imposing a ceasefire, very much to Russia’s benefit.
00:30:00 USSR was a state that committed itself to militarization and neglected quality of life.
00:34:15 Russia is the first mafia that owns a country as well.
00:35:21 Belousov is not the right person. You need a tough, brutal enforcer to do that job.
00:40:35 Ukrainians could bite off a big chunk of Kursk region surprisingly, amazingly quickly.
00:55:04 Prigozhin was a violent, vicious thug. Do ends justify means in undermining Putin?
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SPEAKER:
Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016.
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BOOKS:
Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024)
Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022)
Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022)
Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021)
Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021)
Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019)
Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019)
Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018)
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PLATFORMS:
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[markb]

One of my favorite guests. Thanks Jonathan. Its great to see how much your channel has grown.

[mcbellyman]

You've been absolutely prolific with the interviews recently, bravo.

[PandemoniumMeltDown]

You really attract powerful people, here. Lovely learning with you and your guests. Keep it up, Jonathan! Pootler is going down at incredible speed. I wish people could see and act accordingly.

[pootymcpoots]

My Sundays are punctuated by Mark's In Moscow's Shadows show and Perun's powerpoint presentations

[robinschaefer]

Mark Galeotti is an expert whose opinion I trust.

[hybridarmyoffreeworld]

Yes. Seems to me there should be more explicit emphasis that US/EU support for Ukraine is a national security issue, not a “foreign aid” issue.

[normandduern]

Mark Galeotti is always one of the most lucid minds anywhere.

[normm]

Mark, is possibly the most knowledgeable and realistic commentator on Ukraine/russia…Timothy Snider is another…

[The_ZeroLine]

Happy to say I just made my first contribution to the doc / aid delivery project.

[philjameson]

Great interview Jonathan and good to see a "heavy hitter" on your channel

[VoidAspect]

Loving the Mark Galeotti and Silicon Curtain crossover

[thinktwice-meie]

I have to agree about Karamurza. I was in tears when he was sent to the Gulag, but when exchanged through the release of real murderers he talked to the western world what we had to do for Russia now, which made me think shut up, if we have to help anyone right now its the Ukranians.

[philjameson]

The problem for Putin is that the more that he identifies with his escapade then the more the impact upon him if it doesn't turn out in glory
It's almost impossible for Putin to avoid an existential crisis

[Brendanno]

Great to have you full time on the channel, you do a great job

[freddyklein]

Great episode, as ever! Thank you very much for your stand in the informational war we‘re in!

[Andreas-dd]

Thank you very much Jonathan and Mark!

[danwall]

Very insightful and informative discussion. Thank you Silicon Curtain.

[DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Jonathan and Mark Galeotti, for another wonderful discussion.
🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

[biaberg]

I never wait to the end, I click like in the beginning!

[TheDog_Chef]

Listen to Mark's podcast every time he posts! Thank you Jonathan for having him on! Slave Ukraine🇺🇦🇺🇸