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In the podcast "What Happened" we talk with Maxim Samorukov, a researcher at the Berlin Carnegie Center, about Russia's strategy towards the countries of the former USSR. Does the Kremlin want to turn its neighbors into satellites like Lukashenko's Belarus? And will it really try — even after the attempt to quickly change power in Ukraine, which resulted in a long, difficult war? ❗️YouTube has stopped working in Russia. What to do? Here are our instructions, show them to your loved ones https://storage.googleapis.com/gsc-li... 0:00 Why Russia is no longer influential 08:15 How Russia is trying to maintain influence 21:12 Russia and Belarus 33:55 Russia and Georgia 38:18 Russia and Moldova 45:52 Alternatives to Russia