#Bestof2021: Consider Wagner Group milblogger Fomin dead by a bomb in Petersburg: Recalling that Putin and the Kremlin are masters of assassination: 2/2: It began with poison. 2/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny.
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#Bestof2021: Consider Wagner Group milblogger Fomin dead by a bomb in Petersburg: Recalling that Putin and the Kremlin are masters of assassination: 2/2: It began with poison. 2/2: Russia's future may be as straightforwardly dramatic as Putin vs Navalny. Arkady Ostrovsky. (Originally posted April 21, 2021)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelors. |
| 0:11.2 | This is the new John Bachelors show. |
| 0:12.6 | It's a great pleasure to speak to our Kadyostrovsky, the Russia editor of the economist |
| 0:17.3 | magazine, Basin London. |
| 0:19.2 | We're discussing Vladimir Putin on the eve theoretically of a summit between Vladimir |
| 0:24.2 | Putin, the president, for as long as he wishes of Russia, of the Russia Federation. |
| 0:29.4 | And Joe Biden, the new president of the United States, were also watching very carefully |
| 0:34.4 | the health of Alexei Navalny, the protester who has risen to a political presence, a significant |
| 0:41.0 | political presence in Russia and in Eurasia. |
| 0:45.3 | Then there is the Russian economy. |
| 0:47.3 | Arkady, you know very well that Germany has a big vote in the European Union, banking, |
| 0:52.9 | industry, energy. |
| 0:55.5 | And recently sanctions by the U.S. and by the European Union have left out Nord Stream |
| 1:02.2 | 2, the massive project 90 percent complete I read, to connect Russian energy to Germany |
| 1:09.6 | and therefore the European Union. |
| 1:12.0 | The Germans are reluctant that might be the wrong word. |
| 1:15.1 | The Germans have acknowledged that Nord Stream 2 is important to them and they're reluctant |
| 1:20.0 | to change the terms at all. |
| 1:22.1 | Is that a profound factor for Vladimir Putin? |
| 1:25.1 | Is that taken as Germany voting for him? |
| 1:28.2 | No, I don't think it is, John, to be fair. |
| 1:31.8 | I think it's, personally, and the economists, we don't think this project should go ahead. |
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