Weekender: Abramovich, a Spy Ring and a Talkative Dictator

By Charlie Barlow

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender, our 100th edition! I’m Charlie, a producer at Project Brazen, and this is the newsletter where I share what the team has been watching, reading and listening to this week. We’ve got the latest from Trump’s intelligence shake up in Washington, explainers and reporting from the ground amid the conflict between the DRC and Rwanda, and a podcast exploring the very contemporary spy scandal at the heart of Westminster, as well as a totally surreal interview with Belarus’s President Lukashenko — a must watch. Let's get into it!

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