From a New York Times story by Paul Sonne headlined “Rule No. 1 in Putin’s Russia: Defy Him at Your Peril”:

When President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia let the mercenary tycoon Yevgeny V. Prigozhin escape seemingly unscathed after launching a mutiny in June, critics around the world seized on the Russian leader’s apparent show of wartime weakness. Some even said the brief rebellion presaged the start of the post-Putin era.