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Uprising against the top military commanders inside russia — as a result of which, a number of russian helicopters were shot down and their pilots died. and even though vladimir putin had vowed to punish the people who said —— he said were traitors of their motherland, nothing happened to yevgeny prigozhin. and, as we see, he was apparently allowed to attend this very important summit. earlier, i spoke with john tefft, former us ambassador to ukraine and then to russia, about this. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. this week, we've seen president putin hosting african lead...

Uprising, but we�*re seeing more and more evidence of, i think, average russians asking themselves, "what is this about? what are we actually achieving here?" then this week, we saw also the arrest of mr gherkin, one of the right—wing proponents of the war, who has been very critical initially of the military, but then even of president putin and his policies. it�*s still hard to calculate from outside given the tight wraps that the russian political leadership has on society there, but i don�*t think things are going terribly well inside of russia for putin. terribly well inside of ru...

Of the russian wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, made an unexpected appearance on the sidelines of putin�*s africa summit. he�*d been keeping a low profile since leading the mutiny last month and was meant to be living in belarus. but he�*s again making headlines, having his photo taken with a delegate. prigozhin appears to have welcomed the coup that is currently taking place in west africa�*s niger. a company affiliated with the mercenaries shared an audio message purportedly from mr prigozhin. in the unverified recording, he describes the military takeover as a "fight against colonis...

Putin's africa summit. he'd been keeping a low profile since leading a failed mutiny last month and was meant to be living in belarus. but he's again making headlines, having his photo taken with a delegate. prigozhin appears to have welcomed the coup that is currently taking place in west africa's niger. a company affiliated with the mercenaries shared an audio message purportedly from mr prigozhin. in the unverified recording, he describes the military takeover as a fight against colonisers. wagner troops operate in several african countries, where they've been accused of carrying out atroci...

This is banana republic kind of stuff.