The Wagner leader's mutiny was the most serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin's rule. What happens next could shape the future of Russia.
should have strengthened Putin's position ahead of an election in March, experts have warned he could still face dissent from other ultranationalist, elitist factions angry at military failures in Ukraine.
A Russian service member stands guard at a cemetery in St. Petersburg where Prigozhin was buried Tuesday.Andrei Kurshin, who ran the popular independent Telegram channel “Moscow Calling,” was arrested this week for the “public dissemination of knowingly false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the state news agency Tass reported Thursday. He faces up to 10 years in jail, it reported.on charges of inciting extremism.
Further victories like this could present a risk to Putin, as could infighting within the armed forces, which was visibly highlighted by Prigozhin's revolt, Ramani said. “Usually, demonstrative murders like this are evidence that the system is starting to destroy and eat its own because it’s overly suspicious,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Thursday in an interview with TV Rain, an independent Russian channel based in the Netherlands.
Keir Giles, a Russia expert at the London-based think tank Chatham House, cautioned that while there may be discontent among the elites who support and surround Putin, Wagner and Prigozhin posed a specific threat that the Russian leader won't allow to occur again.
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