Democracy Now! 2023-06-26 Monday
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for June 26, 2023; Mutiny in Russia: Nina Khrushcheva on How the Wagner Revolt Exposes Putin’s Weakness; View from Kyiv: What Does the Wagner Revolt Mean for Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria & Beyond?; Putin’s Creation: History of Russia’s Mercenary Wagner Group & Its Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin; One Year After Dobbs, Abortion Access Dangerously Limited as Support for Abortion Spikes Nationwide
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:21.5 | Excessive ambitions and vested interests have led to treason, the trail of the country. |
| 0:26.5 | These people and the cause for which the soldiers and commanders of the Wagner group had fought and died for, side by side with our other units. |
| 0:34.5 | Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to restore calm after a short-lived arm mutiny launched Friday by the Wagner-mercenary group comes to an end. |
| 0:42.5 | With the deal that exiles the group's chief, Yvgeny Pregozion, to Belarus and drops old charges against those who join the rebellion that reach the outskirts of Moscow. |
| 0:53.5 | Though even the dropping of charges is unclear at this moment. |
| 0:57.5 | We'll host a roundtable discussion starting in Moscow with Nina Khrushcheva, new school professor, great-granddaughter of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, |
| 1:05.5 | and we'll go to Kiev to get response and speak with an expert on the Wagner group. |
| 1:10.5 | Then, dueling rallies in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:14.5 | As pro-choice and anti-choice activist marked the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's domes decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, |
| 1:22.5 | Vice President Pence led the anti-choice activist. |
| 1:26.5 | Because of your work and because of your prayers, the Supreme Court of the United States sent Roe versus Wade to the Asheep of history where it belongs and gave America a new beginning for life. |
| 1:41.5 | We'll get an update on the state of abortion access in the United States a year after dogs. All that and more coming up. |
| 1:54.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, Russia's militaries with drawn troops and tanks from the streets of Moscow after the head of the Wagner mercenary group called off short-lived Armutiny, he launched Friday. |
| 2:09.5 | The Wagner fighters stopped their advance on the outskirts of Moscow late Saturday after officials reached a deal that guaranteed their safety. |
| 2:17.5 | They also withdrew from the southern Russian city of Rostov, which they had seized and returned to their bases as part of the deal of the Wagner chief, you have Gennie Progozion, agreed to go into exile in Belarus. |
| 2:29.5 | The Kremlin also said he and his fighters would avoid criminal charges despite the revolt. On Saturday, Putin made a brief national address in which he refrained from mentioning Progozion by name, but then announced his actions as treason. |
| 2:46.5 | We will protect both our people and our statehood from any threats, including internal betrayal. And what we are facing is precisely betrayal. |
| 2:55.5 | Excessive ambitions, invested interests have led to treason, betrayal of the country. It's people and the cause for which the soldiers and commanders of the Wagner group had fought and died for, side by side with our other units. |
| 3:08.5 | Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said the revolt by Wagner mercenaries had exposed chaos in Russia after headlines will go to Moscow and Kiev for the latest. |
| 3:19.5 | Insudant fighters with the paramilitary rapid support forces stormed the headquarters of a heavily armed police unit in cartoons Sunday, ceasing stockpiles of weapons and ammunition. |
| 3:29.5 | Since Saturday, there have been reports of intense airstrikes in artillery fire across Sudan's capital in the western Darfur region. |
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