The Edition: Kremlin crack-up
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🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In his cover piece for the magazine Owen Matthews writes about the power struggle at the heart of Russia. He is joined by Jade McGlynn, specialist in Russian Studies at the Monterey Initiative, to discuss whether Putin might be running out of time (01:00).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Can Accord Genuity Wealth Management, experienced wealth planners and investment managers who offer unwavering support in challenging times. |
| 0:10.0 | Visit can-dowealth.com for more information. Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:24.4 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor. |
| 0:30.9 | And I'm Laura Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor. |
| 0:34.1 | On this week's episode, we look at the factions emerging at the heart of the Kremlin. We |
| 0:38.6 | discuss whether America's pot policy has gone to pot, and we look at a support community which |
| 0:43.6 | has emerged for posh men. First up, in his cover piece for the magazine, Owen Matthews writes |
| 0:49.7 | about the power struggle emerging at the heart of Putin's Russia. Owen joins us now alongside Jade |
| 0:55.0 | McGlynn, an academic at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies. |
| 1:00.0 | Owen, to start us off, can you explain where these cracks beginning to appear in the Kremlin? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, it's not so much cracks in the administration, it's cracks in the power vertical that sort of underpins the |
| 1:12.5 | administration. So what we're seeing is various groups, which are who are armed and somewhat |
| 1:18.6 | scary, maneuvering for power. And those groups are specifically a private military company |
| 1:24.6 | called Wagner, which is headed and owned and set up by my |
| 1:27.8 | man called Yvgeny Prygorgian, who has been distributing videos online of discontented soldiers |
| 1:35.7 | complaining about their conditions in the wake of Vladimir Putin's 21st of September mobilization. |
| 1:43.3 | And the other one that I refer to is Ramzan Khadir, |
| 1:46.3 | the head of Chechnya, the president of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, |
| 1:50.6 | who's also been openly criticizing the defense ministry. |
| 1:54.0 | So the point is that you have a potentially rather scary situation |
| 1:58.2 | where you have several, you know, several, you know, semi-private armies who are |
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