Hosted by Elvira Bary.
This show runs interviews less often than most News & Politics podcasts, so a guest pitch is a longer shot here.
Measured against every news & politics podcast in the directory that has published in the last year.
| This show | Category average | |
|---|---|---|
| Episodes featuring a guest | 5% | 15% |
| Episodes in the last 90 days | 26 | 21 |
| Typical episode length | 25 min | 43 min |
| Episodes published in total | 156 | 187 |
| Reach percentile | 91 | 50 |
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Discover how authoritarian regimes twist history, power, and culture to survive, and what their tricks mean for us today. Each video reveals hidden mechanisms of control, shown through Russia’s past and present yet reaching far beyond its borders. I’m Elvira Bary, an author born in the USSR. I draw on lived experience, research, and cultural insight to decode how strongmen build systems, justify lies, and keep entire nations in line. Russia is the clearest example, but the lessons apply to every authoritarian society. This podcast is about more than politics. It’s about the instincts and survi
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Yes. The show has confirmed directly that it accepts guest pitches.
Yes. What World Leaders NEED to Know about Russia publishes a contact address in its own RSS feed, and it is the show's own inbox rather than a shared network desk. We hold it and release it to people on a plan. We never invent an address and never send a pitch on your behalf.
No. The show has told us directly that guests are not charged.
It publishes at least once a week. There are 156 episodes in the feed. Episodes run about 25 minutes.
Yes. It has published within the last 90 days.