Poison, prison or death: Putin purges Wagner boss ‘traitor’
Poisoned, imprisoned or killed. In today’s Russia, fates can quickly change in a system in which affronts to Vladimir Putin are neither forgiven nor forgotten.
When President Vladimir Putin of Russia let mercenary tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin escape seemingly unscathed after launching a mutiny in June, critics around the world seized on the Russian leader’s apparent show of wartime weakness.
Some even said the brief rebellion presaged the start of the post-Putin era.
