INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin continued efforts to reassert his authority and project a sense of business as usual after the mutiny by
showed Putin mixing with cheering local residents, even kissing a young girl on the head and posing for a selfie with her
That contrasted sharply with a strict Covid-19 quarantine regime the Kremlin has long maintained for anyone due to meet Putin to avoid
possible infection of the 70-year-old leader.Despite the effort to portray the crisis as at an end, questions continued to hang over the
The general was replaced as overall commander in January by army Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, one of two men along with
along the way without significant resistance
Prigozhin only called a halt to the advance after accepting a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that allowed him to
go to the neighboring country after criminal charges were dropped against the Wagner founder or his fighters.The dizzying chain of events
