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Best of 2023: How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991

We鈥檙e listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2023.

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

Vladimir Putin may have averted an armed rebellion by Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin 鈥� 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.

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

Host: Manveen Rana.

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

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2 months left to listen

28 minutes