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In this episode Adam and Aga start by discussing the latest updates from Bakhmut and the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.

We then tackle Russia's most infamous private military company and its powerful and ambitious chief Yegveny Prigozhin. Helping us understand the way in which the Wagner Group operates and manages to get away with its many crimes and human rights violations is Catrina Doxsee - an associate director and associate fellow for the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

In the bonus section of the interview for our patrons, Catrina discusses Wagner's adventurism in African countries, something less covered in international media. Join our patreon page and listen to the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3JlRfNP

You can find Catrina's research and recent publications on:

• https://www.csis.org/programs/transnational-threats-project
• https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/wagner-cornerstone-russias-strategy-africa-37141
• https://www.csis.org/analysis/massacres-executions-and-falsified-graves-wagner-groups-mounting-humanitarian-cost-mali
• https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-arrival-russias-wagner-group-mali
• https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-corporate-soldiers-global-expansion-russias-private-military-companies

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