An Armed Uprising Punctures Putin’s Aura of Invincibility
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The Importance of the Putin-Progosian Relationship
Putin went on television and gave this very stark warning, saying, anyone who's involved in this is going to be harshly punished. And in the end, of course, there was no punishment. Pragozin was allowed to go to Belarus under the steel, and the charges against his men were dropped. The fact that this does not fit into the narrative of how Putin really deals with his enemies immediately raises the issue of, well, is he actually as strong, or maybe as he thinks he is?
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