*[Enwl-eng] The Wagner Rebellion – full analysis
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Global Edition | 26 June 2023
“Blink and you could have missed it,” write Tetyana
Malyarenko, of the National University Odesa Law Academy in Ukraine and
Stefan Wolff, of the University of Birmingham in the UK. They refer, of
course, to the weekend’s astonishing challenge to the Kremlin mounted by
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary private military company the
Wagner Group.
The “march for justice”, which began on Friday evening,
waltzed through the south of country occupying cities and reportedly made it
to within 200km of Moscow, then was called off. Ultimately, this was “a
showdown between competing factions of the Russian military-industrial
complex”, write Malyarenko and Wolff.
Even by Russian standards the outcome of this episode was
bizarre, writes Matthew Sussex, of the Australian National University. But
the Russian president is now on borrowed time, he feels, despite surviving
the immediate threat. What of the man who kicked off the drama? Read more
about Yevgeny Prigozhin here. And for a interesting take on the Wagner Group’s
operations elsewhere in the world, click here. Stay tuned to The
Conversation's homepages for ongoing, reactive analysis of the war in
Ukraine and instability in Russia.
Stephen Khan
Global Executive Editor
Gavriil Grigorov/Pool Sputnik Kremlin/AP
Wagner’s rebellion may have been thwarted, but Putin has
never looked weaker and more vulnerable
Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Perhaps the gravest concern for Putin: having for years
encouraged the Kremlin’s powerful elites to compete for his favour, he’s now
given them a powerful reason to unite against him.
a.. Putin seriously damaged – but was this a
missed opportunity?
Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham; Tetyana
Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy
The Russian president has been severely wounded by
this open show of defiance. It remains to be seen whether Ukraine can take
advantage of this weakness.
b.. Yevgeny Prigozhin: how a one-time food caterer
rose to menace Vladimir Putin
Robert Horvath, La Trobe University; Isabella
Currie, La Trobe University
Putin has ignored his own role in the
transformation of Prigozhin from a convicted criminal into a formidable
political force.
c.. Wagner group mercenaries in Africa: why there
hasn’t been any effective opposition to drive them out
John F. Clark, Florida International University
The African Union (AU) and responsible African
governments are likely to grow to resent the Wagner Group’s presence and
regret their failure to oppose it.
d.. Cracks in the Kremlin now exposed for all to
see
Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Signs of discontent among Russian nationalists and
Wagner had been growing before a column of paramilitaries began an aborted
march on Moscow.
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