Putin looked into the abyss Saturday — and blinked  —  President Vladimir Putin looked into the abyss Saturday and blinked.  After vowing revenge for what he called an “armed mutiny,” he settled for a compromise.  —  The speed with which Putin backed down suggests that his sense …

Putin Is Caught in His Own Trap  —  The Russian president spent years cultivating public apathy, only to find his people indifferent to his fate.  —  The Wagner Group mercenaries marched 800 kilometers across Russia, shot down planes and helicopters, took over a regional military command …

Full Blinken: Russia mutiny is Putin's ‘latest failure’ in Ukraine war  —  The mutiny by Russia's Wagner Group threatens Russian President Vladimir Putin's political standing in his country and the world.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken discusses the implications of Yevgeny Prigozhin's actions …

Wagner's Aborted Mutiny Leaves No Winners in Russia  —  The authority of the Russian state has sustained lasting damage, inviting future challenges  —  Shaken by the Wagner mutiny, Russia began addressing the damage of Saturday's bout of violence as its citizens tried to understand …

U.S. Suspected Prigozhin Was Preparing to Take Military Action Against Russia  —  The information was considered both solid and alarming because of the possibility that a major nuclear-armed rival of the United States could descend into chaos.  —  American intelligence officials briefed senior military …

Putin's Weakness Unmasked  —  How Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion exposed the Russian President.  —  In recent years, Vladimir Putin has run much of his Presidency in the most splendid isolation, bunkered away in palaces from the wooded suburbs of Moscow to the shore of the Black Sea.