In late June the Wagner group, a private military army that’s been fighting alongside Russia’s regular army in Ukraine, initiated an uprising – a so-called attempted coup - against the government. According to a CNBC report, Russia experts and political analysts characterized the uprising as “24 hours that shook the Kremlin” and the biggest challenge to President Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite in decades.
We asked Dr. Carol Melton, MGA associate professor of history, to expound on this significant event.
The Kremlin, the center of Russian government, is in Moscow on the left bank of the Moskva River. (Image source: Wikipedia.)