The leader of Wagner's botched coup against Vladimir Putin has set up in a hotel devoid of windows to avoid any suspicious accidents.
Mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, who was a convict and hot dog seller in a previous life, is staying in a hotel in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, where he has been exiled after calling off his brief uprising.
In exchange for his co-operation, the Kremlin has decided it will not press charges against him or his rag tag bunch of hardened guns-for-hire - an unimaginable agreement considering members of the public can be jailed for publicly criticising the Russian leadership.