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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: âWhen you strike at a king, you must kill himâ
Description: Yevgenia Albats, a journalist in forced exile from Russia, thinks that Prigozhin is a âdead man walking.â Maybe Putin, too.
A few days ago the world watched in amazement as Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the infamous paramilitary Wagner Group, turned his ambition from defeating Ukraine to challenging the Russian army andâalthough he continues to deny itâVladimir Putin himself. Wagnerâs fighters seized some Russian territory and rapidly advanced towards Moscow, before abruptly halting, accepting a deal negotiated by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, and standing down.
Details are still in short supply, but itâs hard to imagine t...