Are the Russian protests growing?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
There have been protests in Russia over President Putin’s partial mobilisation plans, and an officer at a recruitment centre has been shot. The BBC’s Will Vernon in Moscow tells Lucy and Irena what people in Russia are saying to him, and Rayhan Demytrie in Tbilisi talks to some of the people crossing the border into Georgia.
At the weekend, former US marine Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh returned home - he had been fighting in Ukraine when he was captured by Russian forces. He was released as part of last week’s prisoner swap. His fiancée Joy shares her relief that he’s now back home.
And veteran journalist and author Misha Glenny tells us that Ukraine has rare earth metals worth trillions of dollars – resources that could be very valuable to Russia.
This edition of Ukrainecast was made by Arsenii Sokolov, Ivana Davidovic and Louise Hidalgo. The technical producer is Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 215 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.1 | And we have seen many more protests in Russia over mobilization. |
| 0:14.3 | We're hearing that about 2,000 people have been arrested |
| 0:17.8 | and there was this remarkable clash between demonstrators and police |
| 0:21.8 | in the region of Dagestan. |
| 0:24.1 | That's in southern Russia and it was remarkable |
| 0:26.5 | because it was mostly women coming out onto the streets to protest. |
| 0:30.6 | We're fighting, we're fighting, we're fighting! |
| 0:35.4 | And in Irkutsk, in Siberia, a man opened fire |
| 0:39.1 | at the Military Recruitment Centre |
| 0:41.4 | where the head of the Conscription Commission was critically injured. |
| 0:50.1 | So on Ukrainecast today, is this opposition growing into something bigger? |
| 0:55.1 | Ukrainecast lists in a Hillary from Connecticut in the US. |
| 0:58.6 | Emas are saying she's been listening since we launched the podcast and asks. |
| 1:03.5 | In light of the recent Russian draft news, |
| 1:06.6 | do you see any potential that the Russian people could rise up against Putin |
| 1:12.4 | and overturn his rule? |
| 1:14.9 | That is one of the key questions that we're going to be asking in today's episode. |
| 1:19.4 | This is Ukrainecast. |
| 1:21.5 | Ukrainecast from this news. |
| 1:25.2 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
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