Andrei Tsygankov - Canceling Russia and The Towers of the Kremlin | Ep 514, Feb 5, 2026

Chapters

1. 00:00 Intro to show with Prof. Andrei Tsyngankov
2. 01:50 What are the roots of "Cancel Russia" and does the movement maintain such a massive scale?
3. 08:55 How has Cancel Russia affected academia and scholarship?
4. 18:32 What's the role of US think tanks in Cancel Russia?
5. 23:48 Did the West miss the boat on peaceful coexistence with Russia?
6. 28:03 Did the West have the resource to pull a Russia-scale "Marshall Plan"?
7. 34:44 Does Trump represent a strategic shift in US FP towards Russia?
8. 41:11 What were the underpinnings of the splitting of the Ukrainian church from the Russian church?
9. 48:31 How does Moscow synthesize and message its foreign policy, and did the West misread it, in the case of Ukraine?
10. 56:37 What is Russia's "state-civilization" concept, how does it work?
11. 1:02:52 What's leading the world's degradation of International Order?
12. 1:07:53 How might Russia act in a degraded environment of the international order?
13. 1:17:00 About Prof. Andrei Tsygankov