One yr after Prigozhin’s dying, the Kremlin is humiliated as soon as extra

Meanwhile, because the struggle has escalated, Russia’s propaganda machine has jumped at each alternative to indicate that, as Putin warned when he launched his “particular army operation” in February 2022, NATO desires to invade Russia, with the Kursk incursion as the last word proof. 

The message is that the larger the risk, the extra Russians ought to stand united and that those that don’t, like Prigozhin, are traitors. 

Wiped from reminiscence

“Prigozhin made a substantial contribution within the battle in opposition to Ukrainian nationalists,” Vladimir Dzhabarov, a Russian senator, was cited as saying by Russian outlet News.ru on Friday. “But in instances of battle the pinnacle of a mercenary group doesn’t have the appropriate to commit such an act,” he added.

Most Russian media, nevertheless, merely ignored the anniversary of Prigozhin’s dying, a part of a normal Kremlin effort to wipe his title from public reminiscence.

But some Russians, it seems, haven’t forgotten. 

On Friday, many introduced flowers and candles to his grave in St. Petersburg and to makeshift memorials throughout Russia.