Financial Times on what's next after the last weekend's fracas has been talked and paid into a temporary subsiding. Need to mend a broken image? Dagestan the only place to go.
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ, ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ)
"“We saw a moderate increase of anxiety levels,” said Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist. “People did notice what happened, even though it all was wrapped up very quickly.”
But images from Rostov, in which local residents cheered and welcomed the Wagner fighters that had briefly seized the city as part of the revolt, would have been watched closely in the Kremlin.
State television was quick to praise Putin as having successfully found a peaceful solution and prevented civil war. The message being hammered home was that the Russian people had shown “unity” in the face of the insurrection — an image the Derbent visit also sought to reinforce.
“They needed to show that Putin remains one with the people, that he still enjoys the public’s love,” Schulmann said. “This was supposed to override the images from Rostov.”"
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