The mutiny of the leader of Russian militants from the so-called Wagner Air Force Yevgeny Prigozhin against the leadership of the army and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation significantly shook the position of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who he could not leave unanswered, even despite the message about the alleged settlement of the conflict.
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On August 23, Prigozhin and the leadership of the Wagner PPK could have died in a plane crash in the Tver region of Russia. International observers are discussing the significance of the possible death of Prigozhin for the regime in the Kremlin and are considering various scenarios for the events that this death could entail, writes Voice of America.
A number of Western analysts are convinced that after the unsuccessful rebellion, “Prigozhin lived on borrowed time” and no one was surprised that he died two months after he led the mercenaries to Moscow. However, many experts were surprised by the revealing “murder on a fine summer day.”
Putin needed something more spectacular: theatrical, public violence; violence of the kind that shoots down a plane just after takeoff in the middle of a sunny day; violence that should intimidate anyone who secretly wanted Prigozhin to win, says American journalist and Gulag researcher Ann Applebaum.
She wrote about it on Twitter. Writing for the Atlantic magazine, Applebaum noted that in Putin’s Russia, the mysterious deaths of famous people are not surprising, but at the beginning it was about the opponents of the regime – among them politicians such as Galina Starovoitova, Boris Nemtsov, or journalists such as Anna Politkovskaya. At the same time, after the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a new category of victims appeared – representatives of business elites who showed insufficient loyalty. Top oil industry officials have been found hanged, stabbed to death, shot to death, or thrown out of windows.
However, Prigozhin was Putin’s closest ally – his “cook in the Kremlin, fighter in Syria and Ukraine, owner of an army of trolls who tried to influence the US presidential election.
In her opinion, this violence should be followed by another violence – those who had some business or sympathized with Prigogine will know that they are next.
Source: Racurs
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