Carnegie Politika Podcast

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• After Putin’s Visit to China, What Next? 21.05.2026 30分

  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.
• Is NATO Misreading Putin’s Risk Appetite? 07.05.2026 57分

  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.
• Will There Be a New Pro-Russia Force in Europe After Orban? 23.04.2026 35分

  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.
• What’s the Future of U.S.-Russia Arms Control? 09.04.2026 39分

  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.
• How Is Central Asia Weathering the Iran War? 26.03.2026 40分

  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.
• How Is the Iran War Affecting Russia? With Nicole Grajewski and Sergey Vakulenko 12.03.2026 31分

  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.
• How the South Caucasus Is Navigating a Turbulent World 26.02.2026 37分

  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.
• What to Expect From the Russian Economy in 2026 12.02.2026 26分

  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.
• Transatlantic Tensions, the Russia Threat, and Davos, With Gideon Rachman 29.01.2026 33分

  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.
• Maduro’s Downfall, Global Oil Markets, and Russia, With Sergey Vakulenko 08.01.2026 39分

  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.
• Navigating the U.S.-Russia Standoff: India’s Foreign Policy, With Pankaj Saran 11.12.2025 28分

  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.
• What Went Wrong in Russia? Russian Imperialism, With Ekaterina Schulmann and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff 27.11.2025 32分

  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.
• How Russian Diplomacy Lost Trump, With Elizaveta Fokht 13.11.2025 44分

  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.
• The Collapse of the Oil Empire? New U.S. Sanctions Against Russia, With Edward Fishman 30.10.2025 36分

  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.
• How to Handle Russia’s Frozen Assets in the EU, With Robert Zoellick 16.10.2025 31分

  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.
• What to Do About Russian Drones in NATO Airspace, with Justyna Gotkowska 02.10.2025 29分

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Justyna Gotkowska, deputy director of the Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw, to discuss the latest Russia-related incidents over Denmark, Estonia, Norway, and Poland, and what they mean for NATO.
• Putin’s War Engine: How Healthy is Russia’s Oil and Gas Industry? With Sergey Vakulenko 18.09.2025 33分

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Sergey Vakulenko, a senior fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and leading expert on Russia’s energy sector, to discuss the state of the Russian oil and gas sector, which remains a crucial source of revenue for Putin’s war machine.
• Better Than Ever? Russia-China Relations, with Sergey Radchenko 04.09.2025 45分

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Sergey Radchenko, historian and professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of the book To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, to discuss the history of Russia-China relations and their current state.
• What’s Going On Inside Belarus with Artyom Shraibman 31.07.2025 37分

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by his colleague, Artyom Shraibman, a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, and one of the most prominent experts on Belarus, to discuss Belarus’ key role in European security.
• Back to the Stalin Era? An Inside Look at the Russian Elites, with Farida Rustamova and Margarita Liutova 17.07.2025 50分

  Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Farida Rustamova and Margarita Liutova, independent journalists and authors of the Faridaily English-language newsletter, to discuss the shocking suicide of Russia’s transport minister, Roman Starovoit, and what it tells us about the pressure inside Putin’s power system.