False patriots, rebels, and traitors The Kremlin’s media guidelines frame Prigozhin’s failed insurrection as a real danger, thwarted by Russia’s ‘valiant’ forces of law and order — Meduza

Vladimir Putin’s unexpected address to the Russian military and state security apparatus cued a new round of myth-making around the failed insurrection, which was led, and then abandoned, last weekend by Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Speaking in front of the Kremlin’s iconic Palace of Face...