We are live this week from our London Conference, where we discuss the war in Ukraine, the recent events in Russia with the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and the weakening of Vladimir Putin’s grip on power.

And then later in the show, we look at the increasing tensions within the international system and discuss how the UK as a ‘middle power’ can manage these tensions with an increasingly fragile economy and Brexit.

And finally on the podcast, we announce this year’s Chatham House prize winner.

The prize is an annual honor awarded to the person, persons, or organization deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year.

The Chatham House Prize is voted for by Chatham House members following nominations from the institute’s staff.

The winner this year, is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine.

Joining Bronwen Maddox on the podcast this week is Garry Kasparov, a world-renowned Russian chess grandmaster, turned ardent critic of Vladimir Putin; Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff for Tony Blair; Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times and Orysia Lutsevych, the head of our Ukraine Forum here at Chatham House.

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Presented by Bronwen Maddox. Produced by John Pollock. Sound by Matthew Docherty.