Flight of the long knives: Prigozhin’s reported death
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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History would suggest that the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was an assassination. Our correspondent considers what the supposed death of the Wagner Group’s leader means for Ukraine—and what it says about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Indonesia has fostered a more moderate version of Islam that it would now like to export (9:58). And meeting an indigenous pioneer of Peruvian pop (16:21).
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| 1:33.3 | Most of the doctrine and principle of Islam is decided in the Middle East, |
| 1:38.3 | but in Indonesia, the world's biggest majority Muslim country, a brand of moderate Islam in harmony with the nation-state is growing, |
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| 1:49.0 | And it sounds like K-pop. It kind of looks like K-pop, but actually it comes from Peru, |
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