It’s hard to imagine anyone was particularly surprised at the sudden demise on Wednesday of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the ultranationalist entrepreneur who founded the mercenary Wagner Group. An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin ever since the former KGB agent made the transition to local politics in post-Soviet-collapse Saint Petersburg in …
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Although the Wagner mercenary forces led by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin have halted their assault on Moscow, the threat has revealed the fragility of Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s regime, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “What we’ve seen is Russia having to defend Moscow, it’s capital, against mercenaries of its …
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