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Hello and welcome to our podcast. I'm David Rothka, your host, coming to you from Washington, DC.

And today, as you might have expected, we're going to do a special deep dive into the events in

Russia and environments the past few days. We are extremely fortunate to have a friend of ours,

Angela Stent, who's the Director Emerida of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East Asian

Studies, and Professor Emerida of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

And her latest book is Putin's World Russia Against the West and with the rest 2019.

She's an expert not just in Russia, but also in Putin. How are you today, Angela?

I'm fine, thank you. Well, nice to see you. And we are also joined by Jack Bargolan, who's an

independent journalist and a research with a particular focus on private Russian military

companies, which of course is relevant here because it includes Yavgeni Pregozhin and the Wagner

Group. Hi, Jack, how are you? Doing great. Been very busy. I can well imagine that you have.

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