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Foreign Office with Michael Weiss
Foreign Office is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Michael Weiss, from New Lines Magazine and Free Russia Foundation, dedicated to those ever-relevant subjects of Russian intelligence operations and active measures. Featured guests include prominent historians and scholars, journalists, diplomat...
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Compelling Investigation Suggests Havana Syndrome Points to Russian Operatives
Investigative journalists Christo Grozev, Roman Dobrokhotov and Michael Weiss have been looking into the Havana Syndrome since 2020. They initially ap...
To Catch a Spy in Estonia - A Conversation with Toomas Ilves and Dan Hoffman
Last week, reports surfaced of a teacher in Estonia who was charged with spying for Russia. Host Michael Weiss discusses this as well as the state of...
The Future of the Middle East
All eyes are on Israel and Gaza as the conflict threatens to spread throughout the region. But how have the key regional actors responded? Michael Wei...
Behind the Front Lines in Ukraine - A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Tingle
Michael’s guest this week is Dr. Anthony (Tony) Tingle, Program Director of the Institute for Future Conflict at the United States Air Force Academy w...
The Ukraine War - Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?
Michael’s guest this week is Australian Retired General Mick Ryan. Mick is a military analyst who served in the ADF for more than 35 years and was com...
The Death of Yevgeny Prigozhin: A Foreign Office Special Episode
On this special episode of Foreign Office, Michael is joined by Roman Dobrokhotov, a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former...
Sweden’s Role on the International Stage: A Conversation with Martin Kragh
Sweden is set to join NATO as Turkey drops their objections. They’ve also been staunch supporters of Ukraine in the effort against Russia. To understa...
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Michael’s guest this week is Calder Walton, Assistant Director of the Belfer Center's Applied History Project and Intelligence Project at the Harvard...
The Ukraine Counteroffensive, Cluster Munitions and Putin: A Conversation with Ambassador Kaimo Kuusk
This week, Michael sits down with Estonia’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Kaimo Kuusk, who has been in the post since 2019. Ambassador Kuusk will soon become...
An In-Depth View of the Prigozhin Led March on Moscow with Pierre Vaux
Michael’s guest this week is Pierre Vaux, a researcher specializing in open-source investigations, conducting digital forensic analysis of hostile sta...
From the Archive: Foreign Office #25. A 21st Century SMERSH
Michael Weiss is on assignment this week. In light of this weekend's events, we're bringing you an episode from the Foreign Office archive.
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Vatnik Soup: A Conversation with Pekka Kallioniemi
Michael’s guest this week is Pekka Kallioniemi, a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of human-computer interaction at Tampere University. He...
On the Ground In Ukraine with James Rushton
Michael’s guest this week is James Rushton, a journalist at Yahoo News who is covering the Ukraine-Russia war from his home in Kyiv. He’s been reporti...
Is the Ukraine Counter-Offensive Imminent?
Michael’s guest this week is Jennifer Cafarella, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Jennifer and her t...
A Comprehensive Look at Wagner and Prigozhin
This week, Michael’s guest is Jack Margolin, an independent journalist and researcher with a particular focus on private Russian military companies, i...
Foreign Office with Michael Weiss: A Conversation with Andrei Kozyrev
This week, Michael’s guest is Andrei Kozyrev, who was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation under President Boris Yeltsin....
The Ground Truth: What's Really Going On in Ukraine?
After a brief hiatus, host Michael Weiss is back, fresh off a trip to Ukraine. He, along with special guest, former CIA Intelligence Officer Marc Poly...
The Battle for Bahkmut: A Conversation with Sir Lawrence Freedman
This week, host Michael Weiss sits down with Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at Kings College, London and author of a new boo...
#72. Mykola Bielieskov on Bakhmut and much more
Michael Weiss discusses the strategic importance of Bakhmut and the large Ukrainian military strategy with Mykola Bielieskov, Research Fellow at Natio...
Foreign Office #71. Kinzinger on 1/6, Ukraine and the GOP
The former Illinois Representative talks war — both abroad and at home.
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Foreign Office #70. Prigozhin and Wagner and Trolls—Oh My
Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory on the latest attempts to retcon Russia’s election interference
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Foreign Office #69. The View from Kyiv
Yahoo contributor James Rushton and 'The Killer in the Kremlin' John Sweeney on covering the war from Ukraine and what to expect next.
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Foreign Office #68. Will Ukraine Get F-16s?
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jahara Matisek explains the debate around sending Western jets to Kyiv.
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Foreign Office #67. Why Russia's War Is In Even Worse Shape Than It Looks
Eliot Cohen, Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, explains why he's optimistic Ukraine will win.
Foreign Office #66. “Putin’s Folly”
Author Owen Mathews on his latest book Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
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Foreign Office #65. On Ukraine's Military Adaptability
Gen. Mick Ryan explains how Ukraine has handled Western weapons platforms, and why it's wisely gone back to a war of "corrosion" against Russian force...
Foreign Office #64. The Kyvian Reshuffle
What’s behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sacking of his SBU chief and Prosecutor General? Ukrainian journalist Viktor Kovalenko explains...
Foreign Office #63. The Fellas of NAFO
How a dog avatar became a meme that chased a Russian ambassador off Twitter (for a while).
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Foreign Office #62. On Coups and Illegals
Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropolous discusses the capture of a GRU illegal trying to infiltrate the ICC -- and whether or not former National Secur...
Foreign Office #61. The Battle of Donbas
War reporter Danny Gold on his time at Ukraine’s eastern front
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Foreign Office #60. What is Wrong With Germany?
Benjamin Tallis explains the Sholz government's wobbliness on Ukraine and why old habits die hard in Berlin.
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Foreign Office #59. How Mapmaking Explains Conflicts
Nathan Ruser combined open source intelligence and cartography to offer a more precise and explanatory visual of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Foreign Office #58. What Ukraine Has -- And What It Still Needs
James Rushton, an independent national security analyst, on the Western weapons systems sent to help Ukraine defend the Donbas.
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Foreign Office #57. The Russian Dissident in Jail
Evgenia Kara-Murza talks about her husband Vladimir's latest arrest in Moscow.
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Foreign Office #56. How Military Analysts Got Russia's War So Wrong
Phillips O'Brien, a professor a strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, on why so many overestimated Russia's military capability.
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Foreign Office #55. On Ukraine's Non-Neutrality
Olexander Scherba, Ukraine's former ambassador to Vienna, on why his country will never be like Austria.
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Foreign Office #54. Putin’s Purge
Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov on how the FSB’s Fifth Service is taking the blame for failure in Ukraine.
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Foreign Office #53. On Defending Kyiv
Pavlo Kalyuk, the community organizer for Podil, explains why he isn't leaving Ukraine's besieged capital.
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Foreign Office #52. Our Man in Kyiv
British journalist John Sweeney reports from Ukraine's besieged capital.
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Foreign Office #51. The view from Ukraine
Agnieszka Legucka recently returned from Eastern Ukraine, offers her perspective of what happens next.
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