The Post-Prigozhin Purge Chatter

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The last couple of days have brought a flurry of terrible news and just one hopeful nugget. On Monday, the young Ukrainian writer and poet Victoria Amelina died from the wounds she sustained when a Russian Iskander missile hit a packed pizzeria in the Ukrainian frontline town of Kramatorsk. Amelina, whose writing was wildly popular in Ukraine, had turned to documenting Russian war crimes after the full-scale Russian invasion. She had been in Kramatorsk with a delegation of writers from...

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Putin’s Post-Prigozhin Clean Up

Despite Western media assertions that the half-coup heard round the world was a sign of instability, my sources around Moscow and the Kremlin tell me that Putin is once again in full control. But questions linger about a future purge and missed warning signs.

JULIA IOFFE

It’s been a week and a half since Yevgeny Prigozhin rose up in mutiny and marched on the Russian capital, abruptly turned around, and, allegedly, retired to Belarus. Ever since, the Russian capital has been just fine, actually. “The parks are full, the restaurants are full,” one well-connected Moscow source told me, using the now universal Moscow shorthand for normalcy. “People look relaxed. I know five drones tried to attack Moscow, but I only found out from the news. Maybe if there had been significant losses and destruction it would’ve been different.” Then again, the source said...

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