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Author: William Hewett

As the fallout continues in Russia following an aborted armed mutiny, attention is now turning to see if cracks are starting to emerge in the leadership of President Vladimir Putin. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/06/russia-crisis-wagner-boss-yevgeny-prigozhin-is-not-a-fool-wouldn-t-lead-mutiny-without-support-expert-says.html
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Author: Lisette Reymer

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the brief and chaotic insurrection in Russia led by the Wagner paramilitary group shows "cracks" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's role as a leader of the country.

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Author: Reuters & Ashleigh Yates

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday (local time) his Wagner fighters had crossed the border into Russia from Ukraine and were prepared to go "all the way" against Moscow's military, hours after the Kremlin accused him of armed mutiny.

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Author: William Hewett & Scott Palmer

Russian President Vladimir Putin has delivered an emergency televised address on Saturday night (NZ time) after the chief of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin launched an armed rebellion. 

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Author: CNN

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the bombastic chief of Russia's private mercenary group Wagner, appears to be falling out of favor fast in Moscow, after he unleashed a tirade against the Russian military on Friday and vowed to retaliate against its leaders.

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Author: Reuters

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

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The Australian federal government has announced it will introduce legislation to ban Nazi symbols and the sale of goods-for-profit featuring Nazi symbols.

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Author: Guy Faulconbridge

When Putin sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 last year, he called it "a special military operation" - a euphemism the Kremlin, Russian ministers and state media mostly stuck to, even coining a new Russian acronym, the "SVO".

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