OPINION Putin may just survive an armed rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries but he will be permanently damaged and his Kremlin days are numbered.
He may just survive an armed rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries but he will be permanently damaged and his Kremlin days are numbered.
Two years later, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s president, turned his tanks on the Russian parliament after they tried to dislodge him from power. It worked and shored up his presidency but the chaos that his coup unleashed ate up Yeltsin, who turned to drink.By New Year’s Eve 1999/2000, bloated and in ill health, he had given up after a chaotic six years as president and quit in favour of Mr Putin.
And this also appears to be a well-planned rebellion by Mr Prigozhin and his private army. Reports have said that they have captured key military sites around the cities of Rostov and Voronezh and that they plan to march on Moscow.
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