For the first time in his more than 20-year rule, President Vladimir Putin's power appeared to hang in the balance this weekend.
could bring some Wagner troops under the control of the Defense Ministry - a demand that the mercenary leader had previously rejected, precipitating the conflict - it’s a small compensation for the huge damage to the government authority that the crisis has inflicted.
Kirill Rogov, a political analyst who has long studied Putin’s politics, observed that the problem was of the Russian president’s own making: He tolerated Prigozhin’s feud with the top military leaders as part of his strategy to shift blame for the military blunders in
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