MEDI1TV Afrique : Presse monde - 28/06/2023
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00:00 Welcome to Mediun, it's time for the international press review.
00:09 We start with the reactions of the international press, following the attempt of Wagner's
00:16 chief to impute the Kremlin's sovereignty.
00:19 For the German daily Suddeutsch, the Kremlin is doing its best to pretend that nothing
00:26 has really happened and to continue in Vladimir Putin's system the power struggles or even
00:33 the simple tests of force are never conducted publicly.
00:37 For his part, The Guardian says that during his last television speech, we notice a
00:44 Russian head of state visibly very, very angry.
00:48 For his part, the Financial Times interviewed an oligarch who has known Putin since the
00:54 1990s, the latter said that the coup of theater by Prigoshin remains after all on the international
01:00 scene a huge humiliation for Putin, since thousands of people without any resistance
01:07 are going from Rostov to Moscow and no one can do anything about it.
01:11 Then Putin later announced that these people will be punished and they did not, it is definitely
01:18 a sign of weakness, writes the Financial Times.
01:21 In addition, The Guardian suggests in his article that China is beginning to judge its
01:27 relationship with Russia by displaying a prudent support for Moscow, while the mutiny of Prigoshin
01:33 has highlighted the divisions within the Russian armed forces and the cracks that threaten to
01:39 sap the stability of its most powerful ally, continues The Guardian.
01:43 Finally, the German Dai Welt goes so far as to claim in his article that Putin's fall
01:49 is the very nightmare of China.
01:51 A Russia without a head of state would be a disaster, says Dai Welt.
01:55 The hopes in the West that Beijing can now drop Putin are premature, concludes Dai Welt.
02:03 And then, still in the Russian file, we are interested in this chronicle.
02:07 In the American magazine The Atlantic, Putin, caught in his own trap, titles the magazine
02:14 "After years of cultivating the apathy of the population, the Russian president discovered
02:20 that his fellow citizens were indifferent to his fate", emphasizes The Atlantic, the day
02:26 after the rebellion of the paramilitary group Wagner.
02:29 Prigoshin, the former violent detainee of Wagner, published videos of himself talking
02:35 with local commanders in the courtyard of the General District of the Military District
02:40 of the South of Russia, and "no one seemed to care about his presence", says The Atlantic.
02:46 "The day after the war in Ukraine, no one showed their support for the Russian state,
02:51 even less for Putin or his army.
02:53 The Russians have continued their lives as if their president is not one, or what he does
02:58 does not concern them directly, "reminds The Atlantic.
03:02 "The most remarkable aspect of the whole day is that when Wagner decided to leave,
03:07 no one seemed to care, especially that a new chief of the brutal war had arrived to
03:12 replace the existing regime, nor the security services, nor the army, nor the general public.
03:18 On the contrary, many seemed sorry to see him leave, "ironically says The Atlantic.
03:24 "Definitely, one day after this coup d'état, it is too early to speculate on the real
03:30 motivations of Prigoshin, on what he really received in exchange for his resignation,
03:36 or is he, at the moment, in the place where Putin really spent the day on Saturday?
03:41 Some say Saint Petersburg, others say a Dacha, Novgorod, or about anything else, really.
03:49 But the fragility of the ideology of this regime and the weakness of its support have been suddenly
03:55 exposed.
03:56 Expect more repression while Putin tries to stay in command, more chaos, or both at the
04:02 same time, "concludes The Atlantic.
04:05 "
04:06 This is the end of this international press release.
04:09 Very good follow-up of the programs on Media.
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