The Three Things (episode 6): Prigozhin's end; Usyk's win, Polish white collar boxing and more!

That's right--once again welcome back to The Three Things with Preston Smith, which covers politics, current affairs, crime, spy/intrigue and all things in between in Central Europe. Each section of the Three Things runs approximately 15-20 minutes (or more), and we have provided markers to help you get where you need to go.

This week's three things (with markers) include:

5:40 Thing one: the death of Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeniy Prigozhin. What happened, when and what does it mean. Stick around and find out.
26:20 Thing two: Ukrainian War Update. Let's not get too excited, but in the south the Ukrainians appear to be on the cusp of real breakthroughs. Yet the push in Kupiansk still looms.
42:26 Thing three: an interview with Julian Szumowski, the founder of Biznes Boxing Polska. I have to say that I really enjoyed this interview, which covered white collar boxing in Poland, MMA, Freak Fights AND the Usyk-Dubois fight and the now infamous low blow that maybe was not a low blow.

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Photo attributions below:

Evgeniy Prigozhin photo by Abu Al-Qassem, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Oleksandr Usyk photo by Andriy Makukha (Amakuha), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Second Evgeniy Prigozhin photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aleksandr Lukashenko photo by Government of the Russian Federation, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Russian prisoner photo by Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Russian gulag photo by Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Serge Serebro, Vitebsk Popular News, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Public domain This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1281 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, articles 5 and 6 of Law No. 231-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006 (the Implementation Act for Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).
Prisoner photo by Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Russian ruble ЦБ РФ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dmytro Utkin photo by https://www.fontanka.ru/2017/08/18/103/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pudzianowski photo by Artur Andrzej, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Screen shots of the ESPN Oleksandr Usyk fight vs. Daniel Dubois used for educational purposes only.