Prigozhin dead: Is Putin stronger than ever?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Yevgeny Prigozhin is apparently dead, two months after he marched the Wagner mercenary group to Moscow in a mutiny that appeared to be a very embarrassing weekend for Vladimir Putin.
Yesterday, a private plane crash also killed nine others, including his right hand man, the co-founder of the Wagner group, Dmitry Utkin.
So what actually happened? Was it an act of revenge from Putin? And is he now stronger than ever?
Jon and Lewis speak to Alicia Kearns MP, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and ask foreign affairs expert Tim Marshall about the future for Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | We begin with breaking news, Russia's state media, now confirming that Wagner mercenary group leader, |
| 0:18.4 | Yevgeny Pergoshin, has died. |
| 0:20.8 | Sredi Passageersvigntznyi, Riggins. Yvgeny Progosin, has died. ...srede Passengerid, was head of the Wagner group, was on board the private jet that crashed near Moscow. |
| 0:29.6 | The agency of the Aviation Civil-Rus, he's been Evgeny Prigogine, so, |
| 0:33.6 | we don't know if, of the founder of the group Wagner is more. |
| 0:36.6 | He tried to overthrow Vladimir Putin, about two months on from that failed coup, |
| 0:41.0 | Wagner leader, Yevgeny Progogian, is dead. |
| 0:44.6 | It was simultaneously the most astonishing piece of news, and yet not. |
| 0:51.5 | It was simultaneously the most predictable piece of news because if you have a failed coup attempt |
| 0:57.5 | against Vladimir Putin, let's face it, you're not going to be able to ring up your broker |
| 1:02.2 | and get life insurance easily. Just two months ago back in June, there was much talk, much |
| 1:09.4 | speculation, much anticipation even, that Yvgeny Progogsian, |
| 1:13.9 | the leader of the mercenary, paramilitary Wagner group, was going to lead a coup against |
| 1:20.2 | Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. Two months later, he is dead, shot down with some of his |
| 1:26.1 | compatriots across the skies of Russia. On today's show, |
| 1:29.8 | we're going to talk you through what we know, why we think it's happened, what it means for Putin |
| 1:34.1 | and the war in Ukraine. Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Lewis. And we're at Newsagents HQ and trying to make sense of what has |
| 1:48.3 | happened in the past 24 hours with Yevgeny Pregasian. If you go back, there is an astonishing photo |
| 1:54.6 | where Vladimir Putin is sitting down for lunch or dinner with George W. Bush, the former president of the United |
| 2:03.0 | States of America, and lurking in the background is a chef, a guy serving the food. That is |
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