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What We’re Reading About Russia
Members of the Wagner Group prepare to depart from the Southern Military District's headquarters and return to their base on June 24 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
What does Wagner's failed coup mean for Putin, the war, and the world? Making sense of a baffling—and still unfolding—story.
By Bari Weiss, Peter Savodnik, and Julia Steinberg
06.28.23 — U.S. Politics
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“Something is happening in Russia.” One of our colleagues at The Free Press dropped that note into Slack on Friday. We checked Twitter and suddenly understood the meaning of the phrase “the fog of war.”

Over the 48 hours that followed, we listened intently to “experts” who not 12 hours before appeared to have PhDs in deep-sea submersibles. It was a coup!…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
Julia Steinberg
@juliaonatroika
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