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Weekend: US impose new sanctions on Russia's Wagner Group

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US impose new sanctions on Russia's Wagner Group

21/01/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, US impose new sanctions on Russia's Wagner Group

The US designates Russia's Wagner Group an international criminal organisation.

The United States has imposed further sanctions on Russian mercenary group Wagner, which has been fighting alongside Moscow's forces in Ukraine.

Also on Weekend: anger in Belgrade as Wagner publishes Serbian-language videos to encourage recruitment for the war in Ukraine; and abortion rights once again take centre stage in the United States as Americans reflect on what would have been the 50th anniversary of the overturned Roe v Wade ruling, the Supreme Court ruling which established the constitutional right to abortion.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other stories are Latika Bourke, an Australian journalist and author, and Dr Paul Lowe, a photographer, reader in documentary photography at London College of Communication, the University of the Arts, London.

(Photo: Visitors pose for a picture outside PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 4 November, 2022. Credit: Igor Russak/Reuters)

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