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Putin's Purges

In the wake of Prigozhin's mutiny, Putin sees Russian nationalists as a threat

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Luke Johnson
Jul 24, 2023
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Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in 2023. (Public Domain)

By now, the crackdown of Western-leaning critics of Russian leader Vladimir Putin is a familiar story. In 2020, Alexei Navalny was poisoned and …

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