The world this week

KAL’s cartoon

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Dig deeper into the subject of this week’s cartoon: 
Prigozhin’s death shows that Russia is a mafia state
The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood

KAL’s cartoon appears weekly in The Economist. You can see last week’s here.

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