CIA’s William Burns said the war had already been a strategic failure for Russia. (FILE) US CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that had shown the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Putin this week […]
As mercenary troops bore down on Moscow on June 24, 2023, it likely wasn’t only Russian President Vladimir Putin and his governing elite in Russia who were looking on with concern. Over in China, too, there may have been some concerned faces. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Beijing has walked a balancing act of […]
This was Vladimir Putin’s first outing since the Wagner group’s aborted coup. Russian President Vladimir Putin drew a cartoon smiley face on a whiteboard while visiting tech exhibition in Moscow – his first outing since the aborted Wagner coup. A video showing Mr Putin drawing the face with big ears has sparked a flurry of […]
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin flew to Belarus from Russia today. (File) Moscow: Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin flew to Belarus from Russia on Tuesday after a mutiny that has dealt the biggest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s authority since he came to power more than 23 years ago. Vladimir Putin initially vowed to crush […]
President Putin thanked the Russian army for stopping a civil war breaking out. (File) President Vladimir Putin thanked Russia’s army and security services for stopping a civil war breaking out in the world’s largest country at the weekend by acting efficiently when faced with an armed mutiny by mercenaries heading towards Moscow. In an appearance […]
The president hasn’t been seen in public since denouncing the mutiny as “treason”. (File) An eerie calm fell on Russia after the dramatic end to an armed uprising that posed the greatest threat to Vladimir Putin’s almost quarter-century rule. The man who led the insurrection has gone uncharacteristically quiet. The president hasn’t been seen in […]
China on Sunday said it supported Russia in “protecting national stability”. (File) Beijing: China on Sunday said it supported Russia in “protecting national stability”, in Beijing’s first official remarks on a short-lived armed uprising led by the head of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin. “As a friendly neighbour and a new era comprehensive strategic […]
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was once seen as a close ally and known as “Putin’s chef” Paris: President Vladimir Putin has long profited from the actions of the Wagner mercenary group, but the mutiny led by its chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presents the Russian strongman with a challenge that could irreparably damage his authority, analysts say. […]
Paris: After the rebellion launched by the Russian mercenary group Wagner against Moscow, AFP looks back at the previous biggest threats survived by the Kremlin since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Failed coup of 1991 In August 1991, four months before the collapse of the Soviet union, president Mikhail Gorbachev survived a […]
