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Belarusian roulette: a mutiny’s aftermath

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Role of Lukashenko in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Vienna

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Belarus is a small country, highly dependent on Moscow. It's been 14 or 15 times since the start of the war to see Mr Putin. He could not exist, could not continue in power were it not for Russia. But he has helped to solve a problem for Wagner and for Mr Putin. What happens to this private army? The Wagner group did not want to be dissolved. Vladimir Putin was insisting that it should be absorbed into the Russian military. And now we don't know whether that part of the deal will be honoured. We haven't actually seen the Wagner mercenaries moving into Belarus yet at all. So you can't tell which of those two contradictory statements is currently operative or currently

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