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Flight of the long knives: Prigozhin’s reported death

The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
Episode • Aug 24, 2023 • 21m

History would suggest that the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was an assassination. Our correspondent considers what the supposed death of the Wagner Group’s leader means for Ukraine—and what it says about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Indonesia has fostered a more moderate version of Islam that it would now like to export (9:58). And meeting an indigenous pioneer of Peruvian pop (16:21).


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