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

We’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2023.

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.

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

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: 91Èȱ¬ News, ABC News, MSNBC, Simon Marks Reporting, Perm Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

This podcast has been acquired by the 91Èȱ¬. It is not complied by 91Èȱ¬ Editorial Standards but covered by the Ofcom Broadcasting Code.

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28 minutes