Carnegie Politika Podcast

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  Inside Putin’s War Recruitment Machine 30.07.2026 44min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Janis Kluge, deputy head of the Eastern Europe and Eurasia research team at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, to discuss the Russian military recruitment machine, a possible new mobilization wave, and the state of the Kremlin’s war chest.
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  What Is the Future of NATO? 16.07.2026 34min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Nate Reynolds, a senior fellow at Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, to discuss transatlantic security and its future after the recent NATO summit in Ankara.
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  Has Ukraine Dealt a Lethal Blow to the Russian Oil Sector? 02.07.2026 34min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Tatiana Mitrova, a global fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, to discuss how the latest series of drone attacks and the Middle East conflict have affected the Russian energy industry, and whether they amount to a lethal blow to Putin’s war chest.
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  Why Armenia Voted For a Pro-Europe Future 18.06.2026 33min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Thomas De Waal, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, and Mikayel Zolyan, an independent researcher and ex-deputy in the Armenian parliament, to discuss the significance of the recent Armenian elections.
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  Russia’s Changing Security Environment 04.06.2026 26min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Eugene Rumer, a senior fellow and director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia program, to discuss how Russia perceives its evolving strategic environment in the fifth year of its war against Ukraine, and what security dilemmas the Kremlin faces as a result of its own actions.
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  After Putin’s Visit to China, What Next? 21.05.2026 30min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Yanmei Xie, a senior associate fellow at Mercator Insitute for China Studies (MERICS), to discuss Putin’s visit to Beijing, how China is navigating its relationship with Russia, and why there is still no deal on the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline.
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  Is NATO Misreading Putin’s Risk Appetite? 07.05.2026 57min

  Podcast host Alexander Gabuev is joined by Carolina Drüten, security correspondent for Die Welt, and Joseph Verbovszky, co-director of the German Wargaming Center, to discuss the first public wargame in Germany that lays bare how Russia could potentially attack NATO territory and how the alliance may react.
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  Will There Be a New Pro-Russia Force in Europe After Orban? 23.04.2026 35min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Balázs Jarábik, author of the Essential Ukraine newsletter and founder of Minority Report Consulting, and Maksim Samorukov, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, to discuss the changing tides in Europe after Viktor Orban’s defeat in Hungary and Rumen Radev’s win in Bulgaria and what they mean for Russia, Ukraine, and the EU.
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  What’s the Future of U.S.-Russia Arms Control? 09.04.2026 39min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Rose Gottemoeller, a lecturer at Stanford University, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, and author of the forthcoming book Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and US-Russia Relations After the Cold War, to discuss the prospects of strategic arms control between the United States and Russia.
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  How Is Central Asia Weathering the Iran War? 26.03.2026 40min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Temur Umarov, a fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, to discuss how the countries of Central Asia are being affected by the war in neighboring Iran and how they are navigating broader global and regional disruption.
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  How Is the Iran War Affecting Russia? With Nicole Grajewski and Sergey Vakulenko 12.03.2026 31min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by his colleagues Nicole Grajewski, a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Endowment and the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine, and Sergey Vakulenko, a senior fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin and a leading expert on the Russian energy sector, to discuss the U.S.–Israeli war against Iran and how it affects Russian political influence in the region and its position on the global energy market.
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  How the South Caucasus Is Navigating a Turbulent World 26.02.2026 37min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by his colleague Zaur Shiriyev, a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, and Philip Gamaghelyan, an associate professor at the University of San Diego, to discuss the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan and its implications for the South Caucasus.
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  What to Expect From the Russian Economy in 2026 12.02.2026 26min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by his colleague Alexandra Prokopenko, a leading expert on the Russian economy, to discuss its state ahead of the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and what looks set to happen this year.
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  Transatlantic Tensions, the Russia Threat, and Davos, With Gideon Rachman 29.01.2026 33min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, to talk about the World Economic Forum in Davos and the European strategic discussion on the war in Ukraine and managing a rogue Russia.
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  Maduro’s Downfall, Global Oil Markets, and Russia, With Sergey Vakulenko 08.01.2026 39min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by his colleague Sergey Vakulenko, a senior fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, to discuss how the latest U.S. intervention in Venezuela and control of its oil will affect Russia and its reputation as a patron saint for other regimes aligning themselves against the United States.
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  Navigating the U.S.-Russia Standoff: India’s Foreign Policy, With Pankaj Saran 11.12.2025 28min

  Following Vladimir Putin’s state visit to India, podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Pankaj Saran, former Indian ambassador to Moscow and convenor at NatStrat, to discuss India’s position amid China’s growing influence, U.S. tariffs, and Russian aggression.
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  What Went Wrong in Russia? Russian Imperialism, With Ekaterina Schulmann and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff 27.11.2025 32min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Ekaterina Schulmann, a non-resident senior fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the German ambassador to Russia, at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum to discuss the last thirty years of Russian history and how freedom turned into dictatorship and war.
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  How Russian Diplomacy Lost Trump, With Elizaveta Fokht 13.11.2025 44min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Elizaveta Fokht, a BBC Russian Service special correspondent, to discuss how Russia tried and failed to win over Trump.
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  The Collapse of the Oil Empire? New U.S. Sanctions Against Russia, With Edward Fishman 30.10.2025 36min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Edward Fishman, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, to discuss the new U.S. sanctions targeting Russia’s two largest crude producers.
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  How to Handle Russia’s Frozen Assets in the EU, With Robert Zoellick 16.10.2025 31min

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Robert Zoellick, formerly a president of the World Bank, U.S. trade representative, and U.S. deputy secretary of state, to discuss initiatives to seize Russian assets and give them to Ukraine, along with the associated legal hurdles.