With 2025 nearly done, we're all naturally looking back at the year. My glorious Meduza podcast, The Naked Pravda, was MIA for several months, but we're back now. My favorite interview all year was with Julia Ioffe about her excellent book "Motherland." I recommend it to you all.
In a new interview with Ukrainska Pravda, military analyst Michael Kofman discusses why fieldwork in Ukraine is needed to access POVs unavailable remotely, how Russia & Ukraine adapt/replicate differently, & 2026's "horizontal escalation" risks. I wrote this brief summary.
Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk (the maker of Ozempic) has asked Russia’s patent office to bar exports of a domestically produced copy ("allowed" under a wartime "compulsory license") to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, & Paraguay. (The Russian manufacturer is Geropharm.)
