#Russia: Violent confrontation for power: quickly like 1991? or a long civil war as after 1917? Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Washington Post.
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#Russia: Violent confrontation for power: quickly like 1991? or a long civil war as after 1917? Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Washington Post.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/24/russia-ukraine-coup-wagner-kremlin-yevgeny-prigozhin/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelorette. |
| 0:01.0 | I welcome Katrina Vendenhover, the editorial director and publisher of the Nation magazine. |
| 0:06.6 | Long experience in Russian history and the Russian language traveled to Russia much before |
| 0:12.5 | the war, and hopes to travel after the war, but right now we're in a grey zone. |
| 0:19.5 | The word coup is used on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| 0:22.5 | The word mutiny is used in Europe. |
| 0:25.1 | The word mutiny is used in Russia. |
| 0:27.7 | We have a fog of mutiny coup descending on us. |
| 0:31.9 | We do know that Pregozion's Vognogrupe is said to be advancing on Moscow by driving straight |
| 0:37.1 | up the M4, more than 600 kilometers from Rostov on Don, where Vognogrupe looks to be encamped, |
| 0:46.0 | and Moscow, as of this moment London, the telegraph, is reporting no major Russian military |
| 0:53.4 | units have intervened in any fashion I am for. |
| 0:57.5 | Most of this moment there was a helicopter firing on a fuel depot on the halfway point |
| 1:03.4 | to Moscow, possibly to limit the ability of the Vognogrupe to reach Moscow. |
| 1:09.6 | I did see troop carriers. |
| 1:11.4 | I did see a tank carrier with a big flatbed with a tank on the back. |
| 1:17.0 | There are many military units in Rostov on Don, which is the large city closest to Ukraine. |
| 1:24.0 | Katrina, a very good day to you. |
| 1:26.0 | Thank you very much for joining. |
| 1:27.2 | What were your first thoughts when you heard about Pregozion, Moscow, Putin's anger, |
| 1:32.9 | and the so far, the violence has been limited to an attack on an oil depot. |
| 1:40.8 | As of this moment, we do not believe Russians are firing on Russians. |
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