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Jun 2023
50m 33s

EMERGENCY EDITION: Coup in Russia with K...

JORDAN SCHNEIDER
About this episode

What happened over the past few days in Russia? What does this mean for the future of Putin and the war in Ukraine? To discuss, I recorded today a show with Kamil Galeev, a PKU classmate of mine formerly of the Wilson Center.

Outtro music: Repo Man, Coup d'etat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJjuVzZQj0U

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