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What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin
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What it's like to be a Russian these days: Marzio G. Mian ventures behind the new Iron Curtain to find caviar, counterculture and a reborn cult of Stalin

EPISODE 1912: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Marzio G. Mian, author of the Harper's piece "Behind the New Iron Curtain", about what it's like to be a Russian these days

Marzio G. Mian is an award-winning correspondent and author. For seven years, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera's weekly magazine. Mian is now a contributor to Corriere della Sera, Reportagen, Revue XXI, GQ Italia, L'Espresso, RAI TV, SKY Italia, and RSI Swiss Public Radio for cultural, social, and geopolitical topics. He has produced print, video, and audio reports from 56 countries, which included the collapse of communism, the Balkan wars, the enlargement of Europe, and four American presidential campaigns. He co-founded The Arctic Times Project, an international nonprofit, multimedia journalistic association based in the United States and Europe. It focuses on the consequences of climate change in the Arctic region. He also founded The River Journal, a collective multimedia project that deals with current problems through the exploration of the largest rivers in the world.

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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