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Vladimir Putin is “under pressure” at home following an aborted mutiny by warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin that resulted in the Russian president having to cut a “humiliating” deal to “save his skin,” the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service told POLITICO.
Richard Moore said that Prigozhin’s uprising was indicative of “deep fractures” within the Russian elite and that Putin had to realize something was “deeply rotten” in his country, even if he could not speak to the Russian leader’s current mental state.
The spy chief, who was speaking at a POLITICO event hosted by the British embassy in...…Vladimir Putin is “under pressure” at home following an aborted mutiny by warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin that resulted in the Russian president having to cut a “humiliating” deal to “save his skin,” the head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service told POLITICO.
Richard Moore said that Prigozhin’s uprising was indicative of “deep fractures” within the Russian elite and that Putin had to realize something was “deeply rotten” in his country, even if he could not speak to the Russian leader’s current mental state.
The spy chief, who was speaking at a POLITICO event hosted by the British embassy in...WW…