Former world chess champion and Russian dissident Garry Kasparov tells Yahoo News that Vladimir Putin is “the most dangerous man in the world,” and that he is playing poker on the world stage, “while everyone else is playing chess.”
Russian notorious propagandist Vladimir Solovyov (who is also an FSB / KGB agent) discussed with guests on his evening television show the possibility of Moscow seizing the states of Alaska and California from the United States.
On a November day in 2022, Danish journalist Niels finds himself in a small rubber boat out at sea between Denmark and Sweden. He is chasing a potential Russian spy ship. Upon locating it, he spots a crew member with an assault rifle around his neck, staring directly at him. This hunt for the potential russian spy ship is part of a yearlong investigation. Since Russia’s full scale invastion of Ukraine, a group of Nordic journalists have been digging ever deeper into a murky world of Russian spying, seabed warfare, sabotage and disinformation. This podcast series will end up revealing evidence of what experts call a complex hybrid war, which is already playing out in the Nordic countries and in the waters surrounding them.