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Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti heads the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and is an Honorary Professor at University College London’s School of Slavonic & East European Studies. He is co-author with Anna Arutunyan of ‘Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia’ (Ebury, 2024).

Articles by Mark Galeotti

Flowers laid in memory of Yevgeny Prigozhin at a spontaneous memorial near the PMC Wagner headquarters in St. Petersburg.
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The beatification of Prigozhin and the fight for the future of Russia

The posthumous struggle to define the legacy of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the thuggish mercenary entrepreneur apparently killed by the Kremlin last year, presents a problem for Russia’s o..

Mark GaleottiOctober 17, 2024
View of the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, Moscow. Credit: Nikolay Vinokurov / Alamy Stock Photo.
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Is there hope for Russia after Putin?

Quite how and when Vladimir Putin will lose power is unclear, but the inevitable event will offer Russia another opportunity to break with its Soviet past...

Mark GaleottiJanuary 20, 2023