Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion is over but the damage to Vladimir Putin is irreversible, experts say. The Wagner boss showed that the Russian president no longer enjoys a monopoly of force in his country. Among Moscow's elites, "there is the growing feeling that he is a lame duck," a Russian journalist said. But there is the growing feeling that he is a lame duck, and they have to prepare for Russia after Putin." [...]Suggestions that Prigozhin's rebellion, the Kremlin's response, and Lukashenko's mediation were all staged by the Kremlin are absurd.

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Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin's, Vladimir Putin, Wagner, —, Putin, Prigozhin, Mikhail Zygar, Zygar, Alexsandr Lukashenko, Lukashenko, Andrew Kolesnikov, Saturday's, Kolesnikov, Mick Ryan, Insider's Katherine Tangalakis, hasn't, Ryan Organizations: Service, Ministry of Defense, Institute for, Carnegie Endowment, Wall Street Journal, Center for Strategic, International Studies Locations: Russian, Moscow, Ukraine, Yorker, Belarus, Russia, Washington