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The Prigozhin mutiny

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Timothy Garton Ash
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History of the Present (three weeks ending 1 July 2023)

The Prigozhin mutiny

Future historians will almost certainly find the most important European event of these weeks to be the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group, who seized the Russian military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, got halfway to Moscow, and so far seem to have got away with it…

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