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How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991

Even a failed coup can still spell ruin for a leader, it did for Mikhail Gorbachev

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: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ News, ABC News, MSNBC, Simon Marks Reporting, Perm Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

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30 minutes