
Bear Market Brief
Hosted by Aaron Schwartzbaum · FPRI Eurasia Program
4.9from 11 ratings
- 55
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 11
- Ratings
- 2020
- First episode
About Bear Market Brief
The Bear Market Brief (BMB) podcast explores politics, economics, and their intersection in Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet space. bearmarketbrief.substack.com (https://bearmarketbrief.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- FPRI Eurasia Program
- Category
- news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Dec 2025
Latest episodes
14 of 55 episodes have a transcript.

22 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
The Brief, In Brief

16 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Russia Above Ground, Russia Below Ground

9 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
Kyiv Dispatch: Third Time's the Charm
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The Brief, In Brief
Published 22 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What evolution have you seen? What does that look like? I think this is a great example of drone warfare on a scale that we haven't seen before, and I think we're watching in real -time, particularly in Ukraine, having to develop new weapons to fight Russia, much larger or well -equipped army, so that development of the new weapons and then the implementation of them on the battlefield, it's been really interesting to see how strategy has evolved based on the use of drones, rather than more traditional military strategies. Certainly, I know I've seen pictures they have now like a lot of these drones guided by, what is it, like fiber optic cable, and it just looks like spider webs all over the battlefield, that it's like impossible to move around. […]
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- a former editor of the Bear Market Brief
- Howard Amos
- Nina Zakharkina-Berezner
- Seva Gunitsky
- Rachel Ziemba
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 8 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100
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- 56
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 81
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Aaron Schwartzbaum host the show. Published by FPRI Eurasia Program.
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