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“We looked again at available footages. #Averyanov head of #GRU covert ops is attending the meeting with the #Mali delegation in the video below. But he is also at the meetings with the #CAR delegation (last one towards the wall), #Eritrea (last one next to the wall), #BurkinaFaso delegation (last one on the left).” Among the many lingering questions about the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion is why Russia’s vast security apparatus was so poorly prepared for it. The #FSB, the Kremlin’s main internal security service, has long placed a heavy emphasis on “prevention” and taking aggressive steps to preempt any threats to the state before they occur. The security agency even had informants within the Wagner organization. Yet it seems to have taken no action to stop the mutiny before it started or to warn the Kremlin about Prigozhin’s plans. This Major General #Averyano is not a leader of covert ops classical profile but an “#auditor” who is going to reshape Wagner, eliminating all elements that do not fit the new objectives. There will no longer be a large entity but smaller combat units with #GRU officers in charge of monitoring “loyalties” of Capitans and financial procedures. #Wagner's settlements in #Belarus are not military bases but rather #Gulags for re-education and evaluation of Captains and middle commanders. In #Africa, a hundred of middle ranks Captains with operational capacity had been neutralized and the rest is been recycled, coopted or discarded “ à la russe”.

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A Russia Africa trade conference …. Attended by commanders of Russia’s GRU intelligence and other covert commanders…. And yet many think it’s just a trade opportunity…. Wake up

Harjeet Singh

GEOSTRATA Intern | Editorial Staff at The New Federalist | Higher School of Economics Scholarship Winner

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When Prigozhin move further solidified Putin position as a challenge to military with Harnessing domestic support fractured any possibility of Tzarist moment that by the military pressure brought Kerensky in Power in February revolution 1917. The power dynamic of Kremlin vested in the arrangement of Tzarist Russia Where competition secure Autocracy. Prigozhin affairs doesn't hampered Putin legitimacy as claimed inthe western domain on contrary the exit of Prigozhin enabled Putin to cultivate the African Field in his On view with China, aiming to exploit the political instability with Wagner and Chinese Economic adventurism in the rest of the region with the enormous investment in development of Chinese soft power within the Liberal order.

Anthony Chimente, PhD

Corporate Security, Intelligence Analysis, Middle East Geopolitics

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Classic coup-proofing

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