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A week after the mutiny raised the most daunting challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule in over two decades, key details about the uprising remain shrouded in mystery

As mercenary troops bore down on Moscow on June 24, 2023, it likely wasn’t only Russian President Vladimir Putin and his governing elite in Russia who were looking on with concern. Over in China, too, there may have been some concerned faces.

Ukraine continues to claim its counteroffensive is making progress in ‘all directions’; Russia is reported to be pulling staff out of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The short-lived rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, did not yet jettison the Kremlin's military leadership. But it may have had a more profound domestic and geopolitical impact: piercing the aura of invincibility so carefully cultivated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Zelensky says ‘extremely active’ weeks ahead as Ukrainian counteroffensive continues

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells EU summit that turmoil for Putin in Russia was advantageous to the West.

As the war enters it 492nd day, these are the main developments.

Opposition plans to overthrow Moscow-backed dictator are back on hold after his role in halting Wagner mutiny

Investigators have questioned one of Russia’s top generals about the failed mutiny that presented the greatest challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s quarter-century rule.

Kristina Baikova, who was the vice-president of Loko Bank at the age of just 28, fell out of the apartment window on in Moscow on the evening of June 23

As life in Russia returns to normal after an armed rebellion by a mercenary group, tensions are rising in and around its neighbor Belarus, where the exiled leader of the force and some of its fighters are settling in