The wreckage of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Embraer private jet has been cleared from the crash site, and the flight How will the Russian landscape change after the exit of the man, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who presented the most serious challenge to Putin’s rule in over two decades?
The wreckage of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Embraer private jet has been cleared from the crash site, and the flight recorders have been recovered, but the metaphorical smoke has yet to clear in Moscow after the presumed death of the Wagner mercenary boss. We still do not know what brought down Prigozhin’s Embraer Legacy 600 – expert analysis points to the possibility of an explosion – and we may never know.
Prigozhin may have cast the mercenary rebellion as a “protest,” but the uprising seriously dented his prestige. The independent pollster Levada-Center conducted a survey in July that found that Prigozhin’s public approval had plummeted after the abortive uprising. But that doesn’t mean Prigozhin had no loyal constituencies.
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