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Putin’s ‘rotten’ Russia needs to change – Evgenia Kara-Murza on the fight for Russian freedom
Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of long-time Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about her fight to free Russia’s political prisoners, the toll Vladimir’s detention has taken on their family and whether she can envisage a future in a free, democratic Russia, in this week’s Way to Change the World podcast.
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Lukashenko ‘looks like a peace-maker but he is not, he betrayed Belarus’, says opposition leader
We’re joined by the Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
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Belarus’ Lukashenko says ‘he saved Russia from civil war’ by stopping Wagner mutiny
With Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Progozhin removed from Russia, one authoritarian leader is breathing a little easier – but another is perhaps starting to sweat.
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Prigozhin’s mutiny was ‘glimpse of chaos’ that could emerge in Russia,’ former deputy Supreme Allied Commander for Europe warns
We speak to Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, and is in Kyiv to help Ukraine prepare its case for joining Nato – something it will argue for at next month’s Vilnius summit.
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‘Russia is a corporate state with oligarchic rule’, says Russian opposition politician
We spoke to Russian opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who previously stood in a presidential election against Vladimir Putin. We started by asking him what he made of Yevgeny Prigozhin effectively being given a pardon, while other peaceful opposition protesters like Alexei Navalny are serving long prison sentences.
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Putin attacks Wagner Group in speech, as Prigozhin arrives in Belarus for exile
So what punishment awaits Yevgeny Prigozhin? A new military base in Belarus and all charges dropped.
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Prigozhin’s mutiny a chance for Russians to ‘see how weak their system is’, says Zelenskyy aide
We spoke to Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of President Zelenskyy’s office, and began by asking him if Saturday’s chaos was an opportunity to divert Russia’s fire away from Ukraine, and onto itself.
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Putin ‘a fanatic but not a strong leader’, says former Russian prime minister
We spoke to Mikhail Kasyanov, who served as Prime Minister of Russia under Vladimir Putin from 2000 to 2004
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How Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from caterer to warlord
Yvegeny Prigozhin took advantage of first Yeltsin’s and then Putin’s Russia to rise from a St Petersburg gangster, to a Kremlin caterer, to now one of Russia’s pre-eminent warlords.
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What has the Ukrainian reaction been to instability in Russia?
We analyse what Yevgeny Priogozhin’s latest statement means and how Ukranians have reacted to instability in Russia.
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Russia: Is Putin’s power damaged after Prigozhin’s mutiny?
Last we heard he was banished to Belarus after abandoning his insurrection. But a few hours ago, the mercenary leader resurfaced – from an undisclosed location.
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‘Murdered’ Russian journalist turns up alive after staged death
The Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko – reportedly murdered in Kiev – turned up alive and well at a news conference in Ukraine. The Ukranian security services said the murder had been staged to expose Russian agents in their country. Mr Babchenko’s wife was not ‘in’ on the subterfuge – she’d said her husband was shot in…