Ed Butler
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170 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5d ago
Ed Butler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It might be.
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You mean there might be somebody near to him who will try to get rid of him?
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Sergei Petrov.
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But others are more cautious.
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I've been speaking to Ekaterina Shulman, a Russian political scientist, now a non-resident expert at the Carnegie Center in Berlin.
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What was her assessment of the public mood?
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How worried do you think Vladimir Putin would be by those kinds of reports?
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So society is becoming ever more constrained.
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Of course, some would say these problems that Russia is facing could potentially end with a ceasefire in the war, couldn't they?
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I mean, a normalisation of economic relations with the rest of the world would make a huge difference.
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Do you think that Vladimir Putin is considering that as a possibility?
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Can he afford peace on Ukraine's terms?
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Some will argue, some do argue that Vladimir Putin cannot contemplate peace on anything that doesn't look like his terms for his own political survival.
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I mean, do you think that that is true?
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Making this programme, we have heard some dire forecasts.
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The reality, I guess you would say, is that authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin, it takes an awful lot to shift them from the seat of power.
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It's unlikely that he's going to be forced out by a popular revolution, at least.
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Political scientist Katarina Schulman.
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That's it for this episode of the documentary from Business Daily, made by me, Ed Butler, and my producer, Victoria Holland.
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You can hear more of our global business stories and discover how they affect workers, entrepreneurs and companies around the world at bbc.com or by searching for BBC Business Daily wherever you get your podcasts.
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