The Russian leader of a mercenary group called 'Wagner',
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former criminal and hotdog seller, who was also known as
Putin's chef, has now fled to Belarus after staging an abortive coup. He
claimed that the Russian army had shelled and killed his soldiers.
Although Russian citizens face up to 15-years imprisonment
for criticising the Russian army and Putin's invasion of the Ukraine, Prigozhin,
has never been prosecuted for his criticism, and Putin has now granted his
soldiers and Prigozhin, an amnesty after accusing them of treason.
Although the coup failed, Prigozhin has humiliated Putin,
exposed the weakness of his government, and made the Russian government look
like a Potemkin state. Is Putin now coming to the end of his rule in Russia?
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