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PARIS: The revolt by the Wagner mercenary group has exposed glaring weaknesses in the position of Russian president Vladimir Putin, raising questions over his capacity to weather the growing threats to his political survival, analysts say.
But as Moscow presses its invasion of Ukraine, the mutiny has exposed as an illusion the image of Putin as an all-powerful strongman, revealing a possibly isolated figure battling to control squabbling factions. “We can’t speculate or know exactly where that is going to go, we do know Putin has a lot more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead,” he told US television yesterday.The bitter infighting revealed by the revolt, including the personal dispute between Prigozhin and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, has shown Putin no longer sits comfortably atop a vertical of power.
And while the revolt ended within hours, the images of Prigozhin and his fighters being given a hero’s send-off in Rostov-on-Don would have made for uncomfortable Kremlin viewing. In an address whose tone surprised many observers, Putin on Saturday compared the revolt to the “stab in the back” of 1917 when the initial events of the Russian Revolution ousted the tsar and pulled Russia out of World War I.
Several outlets, basing their reporting on open source material, have alleged Putin spends most of his time at a large complex on Lake Ladoga outside St Petersburg, to which he reportedly travels on an armoured train rather than plane to ensure maximum security.
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