The Kremlin's spokesman said Russia doesn't care about the whereabouts of the man who led a mutiny against the government weeks ago.
Peskov's comments about a seeming lack of concern from the Kremlin about Prigozhin led some observers to express disbelief, experts tellingIn this combination photo, Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen on a post to the Wagner Telegram channel, reporting from Russia, dated June 24, 2023, and Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna on June 17, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
"Despite Peskov's statement to the contrary, I am sure that the Kremlin is quite capable of tracking Prigozhin's movements and that it knows precisely where he is every minute of the day," George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government professor Mark N. Katz told"I think Peskov, and the Putin regime more broadly, is trying to signal that Prigozhin isn't so significant a threat anymore," Katz said.
David Silbey—an associate professor of history at Cornell and director of teaching and learning at Cornell in Washington—shared a similar sentiment, saying the Russians are"clearly trying to downplay" Prigozhin's importance. "They definitely have the capacity to surveil Prigozhin and they're certainly doing it as he moves around both countries," Silbey toldSilbey added,"The fascinating thing for me is that Prigozhin felt comfortable traveling back to Russia without, apparently, an overwhelming fear that he would be assassinated."
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