Unboxing Russia. By Ekaterina Schulmann

Unboxing Russia is an independent podcast by Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist based in Berlin, in conversation with her co-host Pradnya Bivalkar, an Indian-German scholar of media, cultural and political studies. Together every two weeks they explore the dynamics of Russian politics, dissecting government policies, bureaucratic processes, and shifting norms and rules.

Ekaterina Schulmann is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, a lecturer at the Freie Universitat, and a professor at the Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. She is the author of the books "Legislation as a Political Process" (2013), "Practical Political Science: A Guide to Contact with Reality" (2018) and The Return of the State: Political History of the 2000s" (2023). 

Pradnya Bivalkar holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen in Media Studies and is a scholar on Modern India. She is also the author of the book “The Becoming of a Hero” (2023).