🎧 Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, yarotrof discusses the Wagner Group’s short-lived revolt against Russia and what it means for President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power
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Yaroslav Trofimov: I think everyone was just in a bit of a whiplash because the events unfolded really, really quickly. Yaroslav Trofimov: He's a former convict. He spent 10 years in Russian prisons during the Soviet times, and then he made his first millions in the first years after the collapse of communism, setting up a restaurant business. He was a restaurateur and a caterer. He hosted Putin and his foreign guests such as President George Bush.
Yaroslav Trofimov: Well, he's been saying is that the military's mismanaged, that it doesn't have proper tactics, that the people at the top of it are stealing resources and are just plain incompetent. Yaroslav Trofimov: So Prigozhin was facing this deadline for losing control, and he feared that the military would take action against him. And so he decided to preempt that.
Yaroslav Trofimov: Well, obviously Belarus is very closely linked with Russia, and Belarus has been offering its territory for the invasion of Ukraine. Russian planes still take off from Belarus, and so militarily, it's very closely linked with Russia. And so without a stable Russia, the stability of Lukashenko regime in Belarus is also very much in question. So he would've been probably one of the main losers of any strife happening in Russia.
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