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<strong>The long read</strong>: From Brazil to Egypt, Turkey to Hong Kong, the 2010s saw a series of huge public uprisings. Yet many of them led to the opposite of what they asked for. I spoke to more than 200 participants across 10 countries to find out why
Who was Yevgeny Prigozhin: Criminal, cook, troll and troublemaker
Russia's president is trying to present Yevgeny Prigozhin as a corrupt liar, following his mutiny last weekend.
Volodymyr Ishchenko — By understanding the Russian ruling class' material interests, we can move beyond flimsy explanations that take rulers’ claims at face value, toward a more coherent picture of how the war is rooted in the economic and political vacuum opened up by the Soviet collapse in 1991.
Yevgeny Prigozhin argued his mercenary force does not have the personnel needed to topple the Kremlin.