Articles: Russia

Fog of Prigozhin: His Bizarre and Surely Doomed Military Revolt Posted on June 24, 2023 by Yves Smith It’s very hard to make sense of what Yevgeny Prigozhin thought he was… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

From Pugachev To Lebed – The Muzhik Rebellion Fizzles Out Without Bloodshed, Prigozhin to Exile Posted on June 24, 2023 by Yves Smith Yves here. I noted a surprising lack of… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

Russia comes to the brink of civil war: How we got here and what it means by Francis Farrell June 24, 2023 9:57 PM 10 min read Members of Wagner group… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

Ideas Why Putin Let Prigozhin Go The real “higher goal” of the deal was not what a Kremlin spokesperson suggested. By Kathryn Stoner Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters June 25, 2023, 12:49… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

Global The Coup Is Over, but Putin Is in Trouble The Wagner Group’s chief may have lost spectacularly, but Russia’s dictator suffered a huge political blow. By Tom Nichols Gavriil Grigorov… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak The Cynical Calculations of a Wagner Mercenary The Wagner Group staged an armed rebellion yesterday… before their leader suddenly backed down. The Counteroffensive spoke to a… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

A Spy Windfall Looms from Russian Chaos Conditions are ripe for Kremlin rats to offer secrets for safe passage out Jeff Stein Jun 25, 2023 On April 1, 1953, a U.S… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

News Desk The Wagner Group Is a Crisis of Putin’s Own Making For a decade, the Russian President outsourced his military ambitions to the mercenary force and its pugnacious leader, Yevgeny… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

National Security U.S. spies learned in mid-June Prigozhin was planning armed action in Russia The intelligence fed concerns about whether Vladimir Putin would remain in power and what any instability could… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

Scenes from Wagner’s mutiny: Coffee in camo, street sweeping between tanks By Dalton Bennett June 25, 2023 at 8:57 a.m. EDT Some residents of Rostov-on-Don went about their daily lives during… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →