We are joined by Milo Edwards from Trash Future to discuss the 1996 Russian election in which the United States intervened to help re-elect Boris Yeltsin and save democracy which is totally unlike the whole Russia 2016 thing that liberals yell at me about online. We also discuss the Jeff Goldblum driven dramatization of the ordeal, 2002's Spinning Boris.
MILO EDWARDS
@Milo_Edwards @trashfuture @mastersofpod @tot_anglichanin
Milo is a comedian and writer and one of the hosts of Trashfuture. Formerly, he lived in Moscow and was part of the cast of Russian TV stand-up shows ‘Open Microphone’ and ‘StandUp’ on the TNT network and still runs a weekly Russian podcast called Toomuch (Тумач). His writing has appeared in The New Statesman and Private Eye
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