In the coming week, Russia grapples with internal divisions.

NATO prepares for its summit in Vilnius, and Denmark hosts the largest musical festival in Northern Europe.

It's June 29, 2003, in time for the world next week. I'm Baugh-McMan.

And I'm Carl Ann Robbins.

Carla, we have to start with Russia.

A week ago, when we were taping this, we were not forecasting anything about Russian domestic upheaval.

And yet that has been the story of the

week. Of course, I'm referring to the mercenary Wagner group's move on Moscow, at least it was a

temporary move. Yvgeny Prigosin directed his forces against what he called the corrupt and greedy

people running the military, and then turned it all around and sort of struck a deal.

He called off his troops. He's now fled to Belarus. How is President Putin dealing with the fallout?

So, Bob, for all of the schadenfreude for Putin's hard times, first we've got to keep in mind there are no good guys in this story.

These are scorpions going after each other in a bottle. Well put.

And right now, I'm preoccupied with three questions. First, why did Progogian think he had a chance

to bring down the Russian military brass or maybe even Putin? You know, he had at most 25,000 troops

up against hundreds of thousands of, you know, Russian military, assuming they were

going to stick with the government. Second, why to Putin, who, as we well know, is not a forgiving

man, let Progoshan go? Once again, assuming he has let him go, because as of Thursday morning,

when we're taping this, he's yet to be seen in Belarus. You know, all we have is the word of Lukashenko,

the head of Belarus, who, as we all know, is perhaps not the greatest truth teller, says he's there.

And the third question is what happens now with the Wagner group in Belarus? Why would Lukashenko,

who was apparently given them an abandoned military base, some 80 miles outside of Minsk, feel safe, having them there?

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