“With suspicions running rife in the wake of the insurrection, the Russian elite was obliged to redouble their efforts to demonstrate loyalty to Putin,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
30 years ago, the Kremlin crushed a parliamentary uprising, leading to strong presidential rule
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"It's enough for the commander-in-chief to move his finger to make the Wagner chief disappear," Kolesnikov said.
Amid infighting among Putin's lieutenants, Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to take a step too far
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