Putin breaks his silence on Prigozhin
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Russia's leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday publicly said warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin was dead, the emerging markets group Brics has invited six more countries to join, and Turkey’s central bank has sharply boosted interest rates. Plus, biomedical companies are under more pressure to stop using horseshoe crabs for testing.
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Putin says Prigozhin is dead in first Kremlin reaction to plane crash
Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudi Arabia to join bloc
Turkey raises interest rates as it steps up decisive shift in economic policy
Use of horseshoe crabs’ blue blood puts pharma groups under scrutiny
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:10.1 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.7 | Today is Friday, August 25th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:19.1 | Russian President Vladimir Putin broke his silence on the Evgeny Pregozion's death. |
| 0:24.0 | What this shows to the Russian elite is that anyone who thinks that this week, |
| 0:28.8 | you know, who has any ideas, they will be thinking twice. |
| 0:32.8 | The emerging markets group BRICS is majorly expanding, |
| 0:36.9 | and Turkey Central Bank is majorly raising interest rates. |
| 0:40.9 | We'll take a look at whether it'll make a difference against surging inflation. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:48.5 | Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Evgeny Pregozion died in a plane crash on Wednesday. |
| 1:07.3 | Pregozion led his military group Vognor in a failed coup earlier this summer against Putin's |
| 1:12.2 | government. Here to discuss is the FT's Moscow Bureau Chief Max Sedan? |
| 1:17.3 | Max, how are you doing? |
| 1:18.6 | It's been quite the day. I can tell you that. |
| 1:21.5 | Yes, it's been a while, a few days since news broke that Pregozion died. |
| 1:26.6 | What have we learned? |
| 1:28.1 | Vladimir Putin said initial data indicates that Evgeny Pregozion was indeed on his private plane |
| 1:34.8 | when it crashed on a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg. |
| 1:38.4 | And to give the idea of what it's been like trying to confirm this, even though Russian aviation |
| 1:43.6 | officials put out the flight manifest that had Evgeny Pregozion listed as one of the passengers. |
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