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Prigozhin’s death: ‘A signal for the whole elite’ 

Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death would be a fiery coda to one of the most remarkable chapters in recent Russian history.

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Mr Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death would be a fiery coda to one of the most remarkable chapters in the invasion of Ukraine as well as recent Russian history.

If Yevgeny Prigozhin is pronounced dead, it would all but confirm he had been a marked man since he led an aborted mutiny exactly two months ago.

PHOTO: REUTERS

Max Seddon and Courtney Weaver

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As footage of flames consuming

the remains of warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane

spread across the world, Mr Vladimir Putin appeared at a macabre Soviet war memorial, where he spoke of soldiers’ “devotion to the motherland”.

On a stage in Kursk, a city several hours south of Moscow, the Russian President was bathed in eerie red light and flanked by a symphony orchestra.

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