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Mark Edele, Hansen Professor in History, Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne

Has Russia contained the Prigozhin threat? Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so

Vasily Deryugin/Kommersant Publishing House/AP

A month on since pundits declared the imminent start of a new Russian civil war, we’re still waiting. Moreover, we still know very little about what went on when Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a brief rebellion against the Kremlin.

The basic outlines of what happened are as follows: after months of conflict between the various power brokers around Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin made a move.

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