The Kremlin power felt its power is becoming less secure, and rushed to restore and strengthen its positions: 1. Putin intensified his presence in media space, started handing out awards and privileges, meet with key allies; He gave out hundreds of awards for "suppressing the rebellion" to people who did nothing. 2. In parallel, the process of searching and finding "guilty parties" has launched. These won't be the true instigators - "guilty ones" will be appointed to bear responsibility for what happened. Putin and Shoigu, who went into hiding in the first hours of the mutiny, need to wash away their shame with public arrests or something similar. At the risk of prosecution and being arrested are: 1. Government officials from the cities along which the PMC convoy moved; 2. Lower-rank military and those who tried to enlist into Wagner as volunteers; 3. All commanders of military units in Voronezh and Rostov regions. It doesn't matter that they didn't receive any orders; 4. Military correspondents and bloggers who supported the mutiny and who supported Wagner before; 5. Heads of prisons who allowed Prigozhin to enlist prisoners - especially those prisons where rebellions started during the mutiny; 6. Syrian grouping of Russian military - they cooperated with Prigozhin at some point; 7. Complaints: thousands of denunciations are being written already, to point out "Prigozhin's supporters in hiding" - people want to use the social lifts available to them, and send their bosses under arrest. This might be especially harmful to officials. To conclude: Earlier those who were against Wagner, risked to be imprisoned. Now it's time for those who supported it to go to jail. And the most paradoxical thing of all: no one calls Prigozhin's name in relation to all this. At least publicly. Will Surovikin be appointed the scapegoat? Or will he be able to set himself free? (Which is probable). Will they find others to blame?
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