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Podcast | Expert Opinions: Navalny, transparency, and political repression in Russia

Masha Udensiva-Brenner Mar 25, 2021
Navalny Alexei Navalny (Instagram)

In the latest episode of Expert Opinions - Russia, Eurasia, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Matthew Murray about recently-imprisoned Russian opposition leader and political activist Alexei Navalny and his transparency efforts in Russia. Murray started doing business in St. Petersburg in 1991 and became involved in business ethics and anticorruption efforts there.

Azerbaijan

Podcast | Expert Opinions: The Trump Organization in the Caucasus

Masha Udensiva-Brenner Mar 22, 2018
Illustration by Sofo Kirtadze Illustration by Sofo Kirtadze

Masha Udensiva-Brenner tells the story of New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson’s two investigations into Trump Organization deals in Baku, Azerbaijan and Batumi, Georgia.

Caucasus, Georgia

Episode 4: Examining Trump's Batumi Deal

Masha Udensiva-Brenner Dec 6, 2017
Illustration by Sofo Kirtadze

In 2011, Donald Trump and Georgia’s then-president, Mikheil Saakashvili, signed an agreement to build a Trump Tower in the Georgian port city, Batumi. Saakashvili exerted considerable effort to promote the tower, bringing Trump to Georgia in 2012 for a PR tour and lavish ceremony. But when Trump was elected president in 2016, the tower still hadn’t been built.

Central Asia

Episode 3: Looking at Luxury Real Estate’s Money Laundering Role

Masha Udensiva-Brenner Oct 10, 2017

A podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
 

Russia

Expert Opinions, Episode 2: What’s the Matter with Chechnya?

Masha Udensiva-Brenner Jun 20, 2017

A podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, hosted by Masha Udensiva-Brenner

Russia, United States

Expert Opinions, Episode 1: Russian Protests and Evolving US-Russia Relations

Masha Udensiva-Brenner May 9, 2017

A podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, hosted by Masha Udensiva-Brenner
 

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