Cause for celebration in states that suffered Wagner's brutality With Wagner funds seized and his official connections severed, Yevgeny Prigozhin has become a spent force. (AP) Short Url https://arab.news/mwzpv Yevgeny Prigozhin was one of Vladimir Putin's closest confidants from the earliest days of his presidency, which makes the developments of the past days profoundly damaging for the president's authority. Far from the rejuvenated Soviet empire Putin aspired to on the eve of his Ukraine invasion, Russia today resembles a diminished and chronically unstable banana republic.

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