If Yevgeny Prigozhin’s story proves anything, it is that no one is indispensable
Prigozhin will not be honoured as a hero of Russia. Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences to his family and called him a “talented businessman”, a person with “a complicated background” who made “serious mistakes in his life but achieved the necessary results”. It is unlikely that he will go much further than that.
As for Utkin, Prigozhin’s deputy, he was a particularly unsavoury character whose neo-Nazi sympathies and appreciation for Hitler’s favourite composer were the reason why the Wagner mercenary group was called what it was. His selection of far-right tattoos may help with the identification process at the morgue.killed in the crash was Valery Chekalov, Wagner’s logistics and security chief.
The Kremlin’s default is to promote to its people a message of “business as usual” as it continues itsIt suggests there is “nothing to see here” as the security state goes about its business. That can lull people into a false sense of security.
Insight into what the elites are thinking, for Westerners these days, is largely guesswork. The Russian rich and powerful don’t give much away in this new, reactionary Russia and if they do, in public, it is to prove their loyalty to president and country. Russians since Soviet-times tend to speak openly only in their kitchens and the elite kitchen-invites are thin on the ground.
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