coup attempt

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2023.

Vladimir Putin may have averted an armed rebellion by Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin – but if the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 tells us anything, it's that even a failed coup can still spell ruin for a leader.

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Guest: Peter Conradi, Europe Editor, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: BBC News, ABC News, MSNBC, Simon Marks Reporting, Perm Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

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Krystal and Saagar discuss the Wagner leader exiled to Belarus after attempted coup, the US knowing about Russian coup and keeping silent, the Biden admin refuses questions on Hunter corruption, Trump lead explodes post indictment, another train derailment in Yellowstone, East Palestine coverup exposed, US knew Day 1 Submarine exploded, James Cameron sounds off on Titanic Submarine, Meghan Markle rejected by Spotify/Netflix, a behavioral scientist exposed as a fraud, and an eyewitness in Moscow gives us his perspective on the attempted coup.

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