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(In bed with) the Russians

Yasha & Evgenia

THE NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS POD. We are from your future. www.nefariousrussians.com

society & culture politics

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The Century of the Modified Self w/Oliver Bateman

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2025/05/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWhile trans rights provide fuel to America’s never-ending culture wars, there’s something in the corner that doesn’t get as much attention: doing medical body modifications and gender-affirming care had gone mainstream long ago. Everyone does it — from RFK Jr to Andrew Tate to beauty influencers to the lonely dad at your local suburban gym.We talk to Oliver Bateman about how body building culture, with the help of

118:26

Eunuchs by choice?

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2025/05/06

We discuss the Twitter scandal I unwittingly caused by talking about the connection between children and art. What was meant as an offhand remark made people angry beyond belief. The thing, as I find out, is that “kids” are a touchy subject in left-liberal creative circles, largely because America is schizophrenic place where the economic reality and culture are very out of sync. As I recently wrote, liberal feminism here liberated women to work and have sex freely, yet motherhood has remained a

0:12

Red Bourgeoisie w/Branko Milanovic

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2025/05/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe have Branko Milanovic, an economist born in Yugoslavia, on to talk about class and inequality in the USSR. How was power transmitted across generations, if inheritance was abolished? Why did the Soviet Union collapse? One takeaway message: Want more social mobility? Time to do some purges! —YashaBranko probably doesn’t need any introduction. If you’ve never read him, check out his great commentary and

80:25

Talking about "Too Hot To Work" and other harem/incel...

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2025/05/01

We discuss Evgenia’s essay on Too Hot To Work. Some of the things we talk about are: the crisis of liberal feminism, incels under communism, how socialism is actually good for women and men, the unattractiveness of plastic surgery…and more. —YashaSubscribe to NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS and help yourself thrive in these uncertain times. As always, check out some of Evgenia’s other essays: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

0:43

All is not well here

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2025/04/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe recorded this ep on the centennial anniversary of the Great Gatsby but end up having a wide-ranging convo about culture, religion and politics — people’s obsession with the hereditary rich, the difference between religious vs secular values, meeting Todd Solondz and his vision of what life is like in the suburbs, MAGA and the Great Gatsby, Evgenia’s pre-cog abilities and her epiphany that cinema is a form of

0:19

NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE! #1

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2025/04/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comAs promised here’s the live taping of our AGAINST NIHILISM event at the KGB Bar — as a bonus for our subscribers. Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it this time. We’re planning to have another one sometime in the summer. Thanks to everyone who came out. It was great to spend the evening with you all in person. —YashaPS: Thank you to Daniel and Rowan for the photos and for helping us run the show.

130:00

Hollywood Refugee w/Joshua Turek

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2025/04/16

We talk to poet and stand-up comedian Joshua Turek about today’s cultural and political crisis and ways to deal with it. We get into Joshua’s journey from child actor to screenwriter to TikTok star and his escape from LA, and wonder how to use this evil internet as a force for good. —EvgeniaYou can get Joshua’s poetry book directly from him here. He’s got an American comedy tour this summer, so get your tickets before they sell out. And of course check him out on TikTok. This is a public episode

118:33

Trump and Tariffs and Political Taboos w/Joe Costello

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2025/04/10

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 industrial world power. This place can never return to what it was. The world has changed. Trump thought he could force things —

85:31

Shitcoins for shitocracy w/Jacob Silverman

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2025/04/02

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 regular people scammed in all sorts of ways — ponzi schemes, illegal privatization of public property, looting of

1:07

Nobody likes being a loser w/Will Menaker

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2025/03/26

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! —YashaCome to our AGAINST NIHILISM LIVE! event in NYC on April 13th.Want to know more? Read Evgenia’s hit essay “Against Nihilism”

96:00

Art Church w/Alexander Melamid

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2025/03/20

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 naivete about art but has kept his High Priest of the Art Church status and has been trying to destroy the art world from

2:35

Vibe Shifts w/Mark Ames

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2025/03/15

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 Nihilism” and listen to our ongoing series…

1:01

Red Scare Bonus Pillow Talk

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2025/03/07

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 we discuss: the start of our crusade against Red Scare, Anna K’s ties and similarity to Mike Cernovich, the

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"Anora" and Russians at the Oscars

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2025/03/04

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 society he’s interested in are the lower classes — the delivery workers, trans prostitutes, third rate porn stars, strippers, poor

95:13

Red Scared

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2025/03/02

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, and it’s this: What Red Scare promotes as “good” politics is captured by The Zone of Interest — where the happy family of the

3:05

Back to the Future

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2025/02/17

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 am from your future.—EvgeniaPS: At the end of the ep, Yasha ruminates on how when collapse finally does come, he’s willing

120:04

Red Scare's Wake

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2025/02/13

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.nefariousrussians.com/subscribe

86:37

The Theatre Experience with Matthew Gasda

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2025/02/08

We talk to playwright and theatre director Matthew Gasda about his plays, his theatre company Brooklyn Centre for Theatre Research, and the zeitgeist of the post-COVID downtown New York scene. We talk about how theater is a peculiar art form for a millennial to be engaged with, as it is completely offline and intentionally unrecorded, un-televised, and impossible to make viral on social media. In that way, theater points to a future where people abandon virtual reality and want to experience things

91:47

Soviet lit for kids with Nika Dubrovsky

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2025/02/04

Artist and author (and mother) Nika Dubrovsky is back on the show to talk about Soviet cartoons and Soviet literature for kids and the unique radical progressive ethos children’s culture had in post-revolutionary Soviet society. We talk about the utopian book series Dunno, about poems by Marshak and Chukovsky, who is considered the Russian Dr. Seuss, and we compare them to the American publishing system that censors interesting and alternative children’s books. Nika tells a fascinating story on how

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Konstantin Kisin's KGB Konnektions

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2025/01/30

We continue our journey through the weaponized immigrant podcaster universe — this time with Konstantin Kisin. Konstantin, a hack comedian turned political podcaster, is a classic weaponized immigrant — or a “court Russian,” as Evgenia calls it. He embodies all the tropes of one: gross subservience to “Western civilization,” trafficking in stereotypes about the savage totalitarianism of Russian society, blaming all the problems in the West on outside forces — particularly Russia and China… His

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