I decided not to change the text of the article that I finished writing minutes before the death of Prigozhin and Utkin, but to make few additions (part 5, about who is behind the murder of Wagner leaders and how that murder can change the fate of the Wagner Group).
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Story of PMC “Wagner”
Some of the processes that are taking place in the sphere of international relations are becoming important factors influencing the internal political situation Russia. These external factors are superimposed on two main internal factors that started military-political crisis in Russia:
1. The war in Ukraine that brought aggravation of conflict between the forces that demand the revival of the Russian Empire, on the one side, and the liberal pro-Western group that seeks to preserve the current regime and integrate Russia back into the world system dominated by the USA and Western Europe.
2. The struggle between elite clans for the post of the President of the Russian Federation that got out of the Kremlin’s control. Wartime made the Russian military important actor in political struggle, and the influence of the armed forces is intensifying with every day of the war in Ukraine.
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