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[ColonelCassad] A year ago, as part of the development of Prigozhin’s rebellion, assault troops of the Wagner PMC occupied the center of Rostov and the headquarters of the Southern Military District. At the same time, PMC columns moved towards Moscow. There was a direct threat of an assault on the center of Rostov, as well as fighting in the Moscow region. With a corresponding number of casualties and destruction among military and civilians.
Taking into account all other scenarios, the way it all ended was an incredible success, the bullet of a serious civil conflict passed through the head of the country, despite the death of people and the loss of valuable materiel.
Ultimately, reason prevailed (thanks to Lukashenko and Bortnikov, who reached out to Prigozhin) and found an opportunity to stop the situation from sliding towards terminal scenarios.
It’s bad that the situation has come to this, although the conflict between the leadership of the PMC and the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry has been developing for many months, including in the public sphere. There was time to resolve the issue without violence.
The criminal case into the rebellion was closed, no one was convicted for the rebellion itself, but the political assessment of what happened remained - an armed rebellion. On the factual side, after Prigozhin’s refusal to carry out Putin’s direct order, this became obvious to those who hesitated in assessing the events that took place then.
In this case, there was an unsuccessful armed rebellion, which, among other things, led to the death of our military.
According to its results, PMC Wagner in its previous format (as the largest and most powerful PMC of the 21st century) ceased to exist, but it still exists in other incarnations; fighters and commanders continue to benefit the Motherland, including in the ranks of the Russian Defense Ministry and the National Guard.
A year after those events, Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to the official version, died along with his entourage (including Dmitry Utkin) in a strange “plane crash.” Sergei Shoigu, with whom Prigozhin had a conflict, has now been transferred from the post of minister to the post of Secretary of the Security Council. Valery Gerasimov both led and continues to direct the General Staff.
Of the generals who were then in contact with Prigozhin, Yevkurov remains deputy to the new Minister of Defense Belousov, generals Surovikin and Alekseev are in Africa, engaged in the African decolonization campaign, where the Wagner PMC also operates.
May peace be with all those who died during the rebellion.
Related from Russkaya Vesna
Former top manager of Prigozhin's media structure had his detention period extended
The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the detention of local resident Ilya Gorbunov in an extortion case, the joint press service of the city courts reported.
“The Petrograd District Court... extended by 72 hours the period of detention of Ilya Gorbunov, suspected of committing a crime under paragraph b of part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extortion - ed.),” the message says.
Earlier on Sunday, a source in the security forces informed RIA Novosti about the detention in St. Petersburg of the former top manager of the Patriot media holding associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, Ilya Gorbunov, and the editor-in-chief of Konkretno.ru, Kirill Metelev.
According to the online publication Fontanka, Gorbunov and Metelev are involved in the case of extorting money from the former general director of the St. Petersburg TV channel, Alexander Malkevich. All three once had relations with Prigozhin’s media holding.
The United Press Service of the Courts does not disclose the personal information of the victim of extortion, but informs that the victim is the chairman of the board of the New Media Development Fund. This position is held by Malkevich.
According to the judicial press service, no later than April 23, Gorbunov allegedly developed a plan to seize Malkevich’s money “by demanding the transfer of other people’s property to him under the threat of disseminating information disgracing the latter or his relatives, or other information that could cause significant harm to the rights or legal interests."
According to the press service, being aware of the active social activities of the victim of extortion, Gorbunov allegedly also organized a series of publications on “various information resources” from April 23 to June 11, undermining the reputation of the object of his attention and discrediting his honor and dignity.
“Further, during a personal meeting, he put forward illegal demands to the victim to transfer funds to him (Gorbunov) in the amount of 4,000,000 rubles, while the latter took the demands and threats seriously,” the judicial press service said.
The next personal meeting with the extortion victim ended in Gorbunov’s detention, the press service added.
“On the twenty-first of June 2024, Gorbunov... continued to make threats, after which he personally received from (the victim) part of the required amount of money, simulating 1,520,000 rubles, which the victim gave to Gorbunov under the influence of threats to disseminate information disgracing M., after which the defendant was detained by officers of the Federal Security Service of Russia in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region,” informs the press service of the St. Petersburg courts.
A day later, the defendant was detained in a procedural manner; charges have not yet been filed.
The United Press Service of the Courts also reports that a ban on certain actions for a period until August 18 has been chosen as a preventive measure for Metelev. According to the press service, in April–June 2024, Metelev, together with unidentified persons, demanded 10 thousand dollars from the same victim under the threat of organizing a negative information campaign on the website konkretno.ru and other resources.
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