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. This episode is the third in a three-part series on offshore finance, money laundering, and Trump’s real estate deals in the post-Soviet region.

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Episode 5: The Trump Organization in the Caucasus

The story behind, "Trump's Business of Corruption," Adam Davidson's New Yorker article about Trump's licensing deal in Batumi, Georgia. Guests: Columbia Journalism Investigative Fellows, Manuela Andreoni and Inti Pacheco. This is the second in a three-part series on offshore finance, money laundering, and Trump’s real estate deals in the post-Soviet region.

Episode 4: Examining Trump's Batumi Deal

Alexander Cooley, co-author of Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia, discusses how luxury real estate can enable money laundering. This is the first in a three-part series on offshore finance, money laundering, and Trump’s real estate deals in the post-Soviet region.

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

Guests: Rachel Denber, Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch; Thomas de Waal, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe All eyes turned to Chechnya in early April, after the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta exposed the kidnapping, unlawful detention, and torture of more than 100 gay men by the Chechen authorities. How did these purges start? What is missing from the prevailing media narrative? And how has Russia’s relationship with the republic affected what is going on there now?

Episode 2: What's the Matter with Chechnya?

On March 2, 2017, Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny released a report and video accusing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of massive corruption, and calling Russians to the streets on March 26. The Russian authorities, who remained silent about the accusations, did not issue permits for the protests, but tens of thousands of people took to the streets all over Russia anyway, leading to the largest protests the country has seen since 2012. Why did so many people turn out, why did so few see it coming, and what will happen next?

Episode 1: Russian Protests and Evolving US-Russia Relations

A podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and eurasianet.org. Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews experts about political and cultural developments in Russia and Eurasia.

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