(In bed with) the Russians

Apr 10 2025 136 ep. 53 mins 61

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Bedtime stories with Evgenia and Yasha.

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Trump and Tariffs and Political Taboos w/Joe Costello

Apr 10 2025 118 mins

We talk to our friend Joe Costello about Trump’s tariffs, democracy, deindustrialization, the Yeltsinification of America, and the innate human desire for a communal life… We discuss globalization, why being against it has been such a political taboo until Trump, and why these tariffs will probably ultimately fail. We are not the 1950s anymore, when America was the sole industr

Shitcoins for shitocracy w/Jacob Silverman

Apr 02 2025 85 mins

People compare Trump to Hitler or to Putin. But for us the closest historical comparison is Boris Yeltsin. So today we talk to Jacob Silverman about Trump’s shitcoins and other crypto schemes because they remind us so much of 1990s Russia and Yeltsin’s family corrupt deals. Back then in Russia, like with America today, corruption and looting happened right out in the open, with

Nobody likes being a loser w/Will Menaker

Mar 26 2025 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comEvgenia and I talk to Will Menaker about the left-right whiplash of the post-Bernie years. Nihilism, idealism, optimism, the politics of winning, the cultural unity of America’s bipartisan politics, a psychoanalysis of the American beta-bully mindset…we discuss it all.Take a listen! —YashaC

Art Church w/Alexander Melamid

Mar 20 2025 96 mins

We talk with Alexander Melamid, the most famous Soviet-American artist of his generation. He moved to NYC in late 1970s after being an underground artist in Moscow for a decade — part of the creative duo Komar & Melamid.He was a success in the NY art world overnight and knew Warhol and everyone who is anyone in the art scene back in the day. Since then he’s lost his optimistic

Vibe Shifts w/Mark Ames

Mar 14 2025 2 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe talk to our friend Mark Ames about nihilism, cynicism, culture wars, Red Scare, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Russia of the 1990s, and the vibe shifts of America’s political culture — from punk to the podcasts of today. —YashaWant to know more? Read Evgenia’s hit essay “Against Nihil

Red Scare Bonus Pillow Talk

Mar 07 2025 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe recorded this in bed over a week ago while we were in Miami — mostly for our ourselves…to talk through some ideas and concepts. We weren’t going to release it. But I gave it a listen and I thought we had a great conversation — genuine pillow talk before going to bed.Some of the things

"Anora" and Russians at the Oscars

Mar 04 2025 3 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe record an emergency ep to talk about Sean Baker’s sweep at the Oscars with his new film Anora. We talk about Sean Baker’s sentimental style and his “changemaker” interest in stories of marginalized people. He comes from good New Jersey suburb but the only layer of American societ

Red Scared

Mar 02 2025 95 mins

We continue our discussion of Red Scare’s turn into a real red scare platform. We have been doing deconstruction of their rhetoric on Twitter the past week, which has been going viral and has been drawing all the nastiness and poison of the Red Scare universe to the surface for everyone to see. And we’ve come to a very grim conclusion about the nature of this podcast project, a

Back to the Future

Feb 17 2025 3 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe talk about my recent epiphany that the scary and volatile world of Russia that I grew up in post-collapse in the 1990s might be the future of America, rather than a distant, embarrassing past that I used to think was irrelevant to my new life here. Turns out I’m a time traveler of sorts. I a

Red Scare's Wake

Feb 12 2025 120 mins

We talk about the rise and fall of Red Scare, America’s once-coolest Soviet immigrant podcast. They lost their edge. We’re #1 now.Want to know more? * The Secret Power of Lex Fridman* Konstantin Kisin's KGB Konnektions* …other eps — and subscribe! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nefar