3.06 The Assembled Man: Life and crimes of Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin
In 2014, Igor Girkin crossed into Ukraine with 52 men and pulled the trigger on a continental war, convinced he was the reincarnation of a W...
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3.05 Virtual Zone of Our Control
Maxim Shevchenko gave the only operational definition of victory that functions inside Russia's neo-estate society: victory is whatever the...
3.04 Who Pays for the War
Three hundred and fifty-five seats. Whatever that was, it certainly wasn't the end. It was just the beginning. Within days of the vote, the...
3.03 History of Non-Elections
Russia just held its State Duma elections. United Russia walked away with 355 of 450 seats, the largest faction in its history, on a result...
3.02 Pre-Voting in a Non-Binding Pseudo-Referendum. Sort-of.
Welcome back to the Chornaya Zona. In Episode 3.02, we execute a surgical strike on the administrative rot surrounding the GosDura 2026 elec...
3.01 Vranyo
The Russian state is not collapsing because of Western sanctions or NATO expansion. It is dying of a biological, bureaucratic pathogen it in...
3.0 Hardcore Eastern Border (A Dan Carlin tribute)
Season 3.0 of The Eastern Border begins here. Recorded 22 kilometers from the border of the Russian Federation, this is a 2-hour, 18-module...
2.56 Rabid Dogs on a Broken Leash
Welcome back to the Chornaya Zona. The Kremlin’s summer offensive has collapsed into a mathematical nightmare, the demographic death spiral...
2.55 They will hang me
CIA Director John Ratcliffe didn’t fly to Moscow to negotiate with diplomats—he flew in to hand the FSB a spreadsheet proving the Russian Em...
Dark Autumn 3
Greetings, comrades! Welcome back to The Eastern Border for the definitive, third installment of the Dark Autumn series: The Latgalian Siege...
2.53 TFUM
Time to put on our Wall Street suits and dive into the spreadsheets to calculate the TFUM: The Total F*cked Up Metric. The Russian Federatio...
2.52 Serfdom Forever!
Welcome to Serfdom Forever! The demographic hemorrhage has become so catastrophic that Moscow is now renting North Korean indentured servant...
2.51 The Pirate, the Piglet, and the Cartel
In this special 7,000+ word extended autopsy set to the aggressive thrash metal of golden-era Metallica, I dismantle the terminal rot, finan...
2.50 The 800,000 Ghosts
Welcome back to The Eastern Border. In Episode 2.50, we descend into the terminal madness of the Russian state apparatus. With the federal b...
2.49 Crazy Vova's Superpower Emporium
Welcome back to The Eastern Border. I had a bit of a doozy with health, but we're back now! In Episode 2.49, we take a deep, unfiltered look...
2.48 Dark Autumn for Russia 2
Back in April, the white-paper dreamers in Washington told you the Russian state was a rational actor optimizing its war effort. We used the...
2.47 I am a Bobbit Worm and I do "BLOOP"
Ukrainian deep-strike drones are acting as mechanical Bobbit worms—buried deep in the operational rear, snapping Russia’s supply chains in h...
2.46: National Peculiarities of Russian Freemasonry
When an empire starts running out of money, fuel, and soldiers, it doesn't apologize—it doubles down on esoteric cosplay and window-dressing...
2.45: The Wildberries Extinction Event
Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has escalated into a systematic liquidation of Russia's deep-rear logistics. As multi-billion-ruble Wild...
2.44 August Without an Emperor
August has always been a bad month for the Russian Empire. In this comprehensive Eastern European Gonzo brief, Kristaps Andrejsons rips thro...