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The consequences of defying Putin

By Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon
Published August 27, 2023 5:10pm ET
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The consequences of defying Putin
A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin is installed at an informal memorial at a cafe owned by a Prigozhin's company in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment has found that the plane crash presumed to have killed Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was intentionally caused by an explosion. | (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The crash of a plane that carried Yevgeny Prigozhin and his close Wagner Group associates brings to mind the 2010 crash of the Polish presidential plane in Smolensk, Russia, under similar circumstances.

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