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“Blink
and you could have missed it,” write Tetyana
Malyarenko, of the National University Odesa Law Academy in
Ukraine and Stefan
Wolff, of the University of Birmingham in the UK. They
refer, of course, to the weekend’s astonishing challenge to
the Kremlin mounted by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the
mercenary private military company the Wagner Group.
The
“march for justice”, which began on Friday evening, waltzed
through the south of country occupying cities and reportedly
made it to within 200km of Moscow, then was called off.
Ultimately, this was “a showdown between competing factions of
the Russian military-industrial complex”, write Malyarenko and
Wolff.
Even
by Russian standards the outcome of this episode was bizarre,
writes
Matthew Sussex, of the Australian National University. But
the Russian president is now on borrowed time, he feels,
despite surviving the immediate threat. What of the man who
kicked off the drama? Read more about Yevgeny
Prigozhin here. And for a interesting take on the Wagner
Group’s operations elsewhere in the world, click
here. Stay tuned to The
Conversation's homepages for ongoing, reactive analysis of
the war in Ukraine and instability in Russia. |
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Stephen Khan
Global Executive
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Gavriil Grigorov/Pool Sputnik
Kremlin/AP
Matthew Sussex, Australian National University
Perhaps
the gravest concern for Putin: having for years encouraged the
Kremlin’s powerful elites to compete for his favour, he’s now
given them a powerful reason to unite against him. |
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham;
Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law
Academy
The
Russian president has been severely wounded by this
open show of defiance. It remains to be seen whether
Ukraine can take advantage of this weakness.
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Robert Horvath, La Trobe University;
Isabella Currie, La Trobe University
Putin
has ignored his own role in the transformation of
Prigozhin from a convicted criminal into a formidable
political force.
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John F. Clark, Florida International
University
The
African Union (AU) and responsible African governments
are likely to grow to resent the Wagner Group’s
presence and regret their failure to oppose it.
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Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Signs
of discontent among Russian nationalists and Wagner
had been growing before a column of paramilitaries
began an aborted march on
Moscow. | |
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Amy Brown, Swansea University
There
is a link between huge amounts of parental attention and the
development of narcissistic traits in children. |
David M. Witelson, University of the
Witwatersrand
Some
explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks.
The truth behind the paintings is far more
interesting. |
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Arwyn Edwards, Aberystwyth University
To
fully understand the extent of climate-related dangers
the Arctic – and our planet – is facing, we must focus
on organisms too small to be seen with the naked
eye.
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Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
Visual
artists draw from visual references, not words, as
they imagine their work. So when language is in the
driver’s seat of making art, it erects a barrier
between the artist and the canvas.
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Temidayo Akenroye, University of
Missouri-St. Louis; Adegboyega Oyedijo, University of
Leicester; George Zsidisin, University of Missouri-St.
Louis; Jamal El Baz, Ibn Zohr University; Marcia
Mkansi, University of South Africa
Demand
for human organs has surpassed supply. This is leading
to serious problems including a flourishing black
market for organ trafficking.
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Daniel Merino, The Conversation; Nehal
El-Hadi, The Conversation
From
the Arab Spring to the Belarus Awakening and the
ongoing Iranian protest Women, Life, Freedom,
female-centered imagery and social media are
battlegrounds of resistance and
oppression. | |
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