GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that Prigozhin's life forged?
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SPEAKER:
Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016.
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BOOKS:
Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024)
Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022)
Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022)
Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021)
Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021)
Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019)
Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019)
Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018)
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WAR STUDIES:
Mark Galeotti: Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (2024)
Mark Galeotti: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023)
Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023)
Mark Galeotti: Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023)
Mark Galeotti: Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023)
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