in africa and sub-saharan africa and its ability to generate wealth. how can we sustain that? does he still have access to that? what does it give him in russia? it s a really good question. does his use outweigh his threat to the russian president? molly mchugh, thank you, my friend. we have a lot more coming up, everybody. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. a, hey, everybody. welcome back. i am yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. it s fantastic to see you. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. we are continuing our coverage this hour with more fallout from the wagner group rebellion against russia. a deal was brokered between yevgeny prigozhin and the kremlin. it stopped mercenary troops in their tracks, averting an armed confrontation. so has the temperature come down in moscow today. how has this impacted putin s grip on power? i m going to ask in just a moment. meanwhile, back in this country, we have results
yasmin, i think it is safe to assume that prigozhin is sleeping with one eye open in belarus. i would be very surprised if this gets to be a quiet retirement for a man who just challenged vladimir putin, who just put up with the biggest resistance to putin s decades in power. as you know very well, people who crossed putin have a habit of turning up dead. the list is long, from boris names of, the opposition politician gunned down literally in the shadow of the kremlin in 2015, alexander litvinenko, putin s former comrade in the kgb who was poisoned with polonium in london in 2006 these were people who committed much more minor transgressions against the russian president than the humiliating blow that prigozhin felt him yesterday, seizing the southern city of rostov, marching north toward
Killed, they have boris names, of the forest for former leader of the opposition, killed. his former protegee tried to kill, they didn t succeed. another, man nikolai baroque, of was thrown off a five story building. and many other people have been killed for calling for justice for sergei magnitsky, for exposing corruption, and now they re killing people for just calling this war a war. this is no different than the stalin purges. vladimir putin isn t evil dictator, and he will do everything he can to shut everybody up because he s so afraid that if the truth comes out the russian people will rise up. i m curious, just because we re doing the banned book club today. are your books banned in russia? yeah, absolutely banned in russia. my first book was banned. we are translating freezing order into russian, we re giving it away for free on the internet. i should say, one other banned