Peter Rutland, Author at Flux https://flux.community/creator/peter-rutland/ A platform for change Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:10:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Prigozhin’s mutiny has punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image https://flux.community/peter-rutland/2023/06/prigozhins-mutiny-has-punctured-putins-strongman-image-and-weakened-his-power/ Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:38:20 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13903 Less than 24 hours after the mutiny began, it was over. As the rebelling Wagner column bore down on Moscow, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered a deal under which Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to drop criminal charges against the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and allow him to seek asylum in Belarus. The departing Wagner troops were given a heroes’ send-off by […]

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