| In one of the most remarkable 24 hours in modern Russian history, Prigozhin effectively declared war on the Russian Defense Ministry, seized a strategic military headquarters in southern Russia, sent a convoy of fighters rolling toward Moscow, and won a deal to avoid arrest by agreeing to exile in Belarus. In the process, he won popular support as a truth-teller and diminished President Vladimir Putin's aura of invincibility. |
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