Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin Is Now Caught in a Game of Belarusian Chess

Candace Rondeaux and Ben Dalton write about the new power dynamic following the Russian mutiny for the Globe and Mail.

Nothing about the outcome of Wagner Group chieftain Yevgeny Prigozhin’s revolt against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was preordained. Nor is the future fixed. What is certain is that with Mr. Prigozhin now banished from Russia we will all need to keep our eyes fixed on Minsk.

The Belarusian capital is where Mr. Prigozhin reportedly ended up just 24 hours after he ordered his 25,000-man-strong paramilitary force to mount a March for Justice on Moscow. He agreed to halt his armed uprising against Mr. Putin and withdraw after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko brokered a temporary truce. The next stage of this drama will hinge as much on the position Mr. Prigozhin will occupy there as it will on how Mr. Putin and those around him manage the fallout in Russia.

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