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

Yevgeny Prigozhin broke his silence Monday for the first time since leading an armed rebellion, saying he wasn’t trying to oust Vladimir Putin’s government but would keep his Wagner mercenary company going despite official efforts to shut it down.

Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin broke his silence for the first time since leading an armed rebellion to insist he had no intention of ousting President Vladimir Putin’s government.

For Vladimir Putin, the abortive Wagner Group coup has been a humiliating affair that exposed his lack of control over military units ostensibly fighting for Russia. It was an episode that the Russian president is unlikely to forgive in a hurry.

For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with new arrests reported daily

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the Belarusian opposition described as an attempt to blackmail the West

Russia and Belarus have signed a deal formalizing the procedure for deploying Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus

Protasevich had been sentenced to eight years for organising protests and insulting President Lukashenko.

Russia’s Victory Day celebration on Tuesday was the last time the Belarusian leader was seen in public.

Authorities posted photographs and video on Telegram channel after authoritarian ruler missed events

For nearly a week, the whereabouts of Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko have been a mystery