The Wagner Mutiny and Russia's Future

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Kremlin caterer turned mercenary warlord and then mutineer, has built a profitable empire interfering in the politics and crises of countries around the world. Prigozhin’s sprawling businesses include not only the Wagner mercenary group but also an online army that has fought wars over information from Sudan to the United States. Prigozhin’s brief rebellion and ongoing rhetoric against the government of his once close associate Vladimir Putin played out online as much as on the ground, as he successfully utilized the messaging service Telegram to communicate with the public.