Arkady Ostrovsky travels across Europe and the Middle East speaking to free-thinking Russians who left when the shelling of Ukraine began in 2022 in this eight-part series. For them the war meant the future of Russia itself was now in doubt. Now they have to rebuild their lives and their hopes for Russia from exile. Can they get their country back?
Their stories help solve the mystery of why this senseless war began – and how it might end.
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Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip
The Economist's US Editor John Prideaux retraces Alexis de Tocqueville's 1831 journey to assess the enduring vitality of American democracy in this interview.
23 Jan 2026
Trailer: Boss Class Season 3
AI is changing how we work. It's turning us all into managers. Be a good one.
The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, takes on the bots in the third season of Boss Class. From cloning to coding, agents to entry-level jobs, he tackles the threat head on and figures out how to turn anxiety into opportunity. Along the way he meets bulls and bears and the people who can help you to master management in the age of AI.
Full Season 3 out 29th January 2026.
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29 Apr 2025
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.
The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, is here to help. The second season of Boss Class features leaders at some of the world’s best performing companies, from Levi’s to Novo Nordisk to Google.
New episodes are out weekly starting May 12th.
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23 Jan 2025
Trailer: Scam Inc
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful.
The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts with the collapse of a bank in rural Kansas to uncover a global, underground scam economy built around human trafficking, corruption and money laundering. Can it be stopped?
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1 Jul 2024
Trailer: Boom!
Why are two old, unpopular men the main candidates for the world’s most demanding job? It’s the question John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, gets asked the most. And the answer lies in the peculiar politics of the baby boomers.
Since 1992, every American president bar one has been a white man born in the 1940s. That run looks likely to span 36 years - not far off the age of the median American. This cohort was born with aces in their pockets. Their parents defeated Nazism and won the cold war. They hit the jobs market at an unmatched period of wealth creation. They have benefitted from giant leaps in technology, and in racial and gender equality.
And yet, their last act in politics sees the two main parties accusing each other of wrecking American democracy. As the boomers near the end of their political journey, John Prideaux sets out to make sense of their inheritance and their legacy.
Launching July 2024.
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28 May 2024
The Modi Raj: Trailer
Narendra Modi may well be the most popular politician on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyeing a third term atop the world’s biggest democracy.
A tea-seller’s son, Mr Modi began life an outsider and the man behind the political phenomenon remains hard to fathom. India has become an economic powerhouse during his ten years in charge. But he’s also the frontman for a chauvinistic Hindu nationalist dogma.
Can Mr Modi continue to balance both parts of his agenda and finish the job of turning India into a superpower? The Economist’s Avantika Chilkoti finds out what makes him tick.
Launching June 2024.
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2 Mar 2024
Next Year in Moscow 9: Life and fate
A year on from our last episode, Alexei Navalny (https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/02/22/alexei-navalny-didnt-just-defy-putin-he-showed-up-his-depravity), Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he imagined from his prison cell in Siberia is all but extinguished. How are the Russians who oppose Vladimir Putin’s war enduring these dark times?
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24 Feb 2024
Next Year in Moscow: Update
Alexei Navalny’s death has had a shattering effect on the people featured in this podcast - and on the idea of a free and peaceful Russia.
We had planned to publish a new episode today, on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But we will continue our reporting for an extra week. Episode 9 will be published here on Saturday 2nd March.
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4 Mar 2023
Next Year in Moscow 2: A beautiful life
A decade ago Russia's middle class (https://www.economist.com/international/2022/08/09/much-of-russias-intellectual-elite-has-fled-the-country?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=nextyearinmoscow&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) was larger and richer than it had ever been. “Russians are OK” was the title of a popular YouTube channel. But Vladimir Putin’s return to power sparked unprecedented protests as two very different visions of Russia vied for dominance.
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22 Feb 2023
Next Year in Moscow 1: This damn year
For Russians opposed to Vladimir Putin, everything changed the moment they awoke to news of the invasion of Ukraine (https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=nextyearinmoscow&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) a year ago. They felt a range of emotions: pain, fury and shame. And they had to figure out what to do next.
The Economist’s Arkady Ostrovsky has been speaking to them, because their stories help solve the mystery of why this senseless war began – and how it might end.
New episodes will be released weekly on Saturdays.
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10 Feb 2023
Next Year in Moscow: Trailer
When the shelling of Ukraine (https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=nextyearinmoscow&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) began a year ago, free-thinking Russians faced a fateful choice: lie low, resist or flee. Hundreds of thousands decided to leave. For them the war meant the future of Russia itself was now in doubt.
The Economist's Arkady Ostrovsky finds out what happened to these exiles for a new podcast series. Their stories help solve the mystery of why this senseless war began – and how it might end. New episodes will be released weekly on Saturdays.
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