hen Vladimir Putin delivered a speech just days after surviving the greatest challenge to his 23 years in power, he sought to strike a defiant tone. The Russian President described the armed convoy of thousands of Russian soldiers led by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as a “mutiny” designed to foment domestic turmoil, and its organizers as plotters who “betrayed their country.” Yet in that June 26 speech, Putin did not reveal plans for punishment or retribution. He said that Prigozhin and his men would be free to go into exile in Belarus,
