In the immortal words of Omar Little, “You come at the king, you best not miss.”
Exactly two months after staging an armed insurrection and an aborted march on Moscow, Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in an airplane crash in Russia that looks like anything but an accident.
So what does this apparent hit on a once-powerful oligarch reveal about the Putin regime? On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Konstantin Eggert, a columnist on Russian affairs for Deutsche Welle and the former director of the BBC’s Russian Service to break it all down. Enjoy…
SHOW NOTES
A report on Deutsche Welle television about Prigozhin featuring commentary by Konstantin Eggert and Brian Whitmore, which was referenced in the podcast, can be accessed here.
The Atlantic Council’s New Atlanticist blog released a special “experts react” post about the Prigozhin killing that can be accessed here.