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How To Academy is London's home of big thinking. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world.
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Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone: Chaos and Murder in Putin's Russia
July 7, 2026
Vas Kristadoulou (0:07)
Hello and welcome to the How To Academy Podcast, the bi-weekly show from London's Home of Big Thinking. I'm Vas Khristadulu.
In the 90s, Bill Browder and Jamison Firestone had front row seats for the fall of Russia's nascent democracy and the rise of Putin's mafia state. Bill's Hermitage Capital was the largest portfolio investor in post-Soviet Russia, and Jamison was the founder of the country's first independent law firm. When they…
Edie Lush (0:58)
So we're going to get straight into it because right now, $300 billion worth of Russian central bank money is sitting frozen in European accounts. What happens to it, whether it goes to Ukraine, whether it stays put or gets returned, is one of the most consequential decisions that the West has to make. And the two…
I sat down with Bill first in Davos in 2013, and that seems like a very different world from today.
Jamison Firestone (2:30)
Well, sorry about that.
As far as obviously America has, for one reason or another, Trump likes Putin, doesn't like Zelensky, and America has basically bailed on absolutely everything. So really, we're talking about a European effort right now, an EU effort right now. It's the EU that funds Ukraine at the moment, and most of that 300…
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