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• This will include merging with the team behind Wallet, the crypto application seamlessly integrated into Telegram Messenger.
• The development of Wallet has been accelerating over recent months as the team prepared to launch exciting new products.
• “The Open Platform is well funded, with First Stage Labs having secured significant investment upon its creation from our partners.
• In 2023 FS Labs merged with Wallet inside Telegram and rebranded and restructured, creating the newly formed company The Open Platform in the process.

• The departing Wagner troops were given a heroes’ send-off by some residents of Rostov-on-Don – the southern Russian town they had taken control over without firing shot earlier in the day.
• The events of June 24 had observers searching for the right term to describe what was going on: Was this a coup attempt, a mutiny, an insurrection?
• More radically, Prigozhin may have hoped that he would receive support from elements in the Russian military.

Putin’s impotence

• Prigozhin’s abortive insurrection has punctured the “strongman” image of President Vladimir Putin, both for world leaders and for ordinary Russians.
• Putin was forced to make a televised address at 10:00 a.m. local time on June 24 describing the revolt as a “stab in the back” and calling for harsh punishment of the mutineers.
• But it was the intervention of Belarus President Lukashenko that brought about an end to the mutiny, not any words or actions from Putin.

Nationalist discontent

• It is hard to imagine that his propagandists will be able to argue that Prigozhin is also a tool of the West.
• Perhaps, also, Putin had come to believe his own propaganda: that nobody could be more nationalist than Putin himself, and that Russia and Putin were one and the same thing – echoing Presidential aide Vyacheslav Volodin’s 2014 comment “No Putin, no Russia”.
• Certainly prior to the Wagner mutiny, there were growing winds of discontent among nationalists.
• Prigozhin may now be in the Belarusian capital Minsk, where theoretically at least he can do less damage to Putin.

A lame duck president?

• Prigozhin’s Wagner group was created with his blessing and promoted by the Russian president.
• It was not until July 2022 that Wagner was officially acknowledged to be fighting in the Ukraine war.
• But over the past six months, they have played an increasingly prominent role, and have been rewarded with praise in the Russian media.
• But there can be no doubt that the aborted mutiny has exposed profound structural flaws in the Russian system of rule.

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