According to political scientist Yaroslav Makitra, Prigozhin managed to make his successful information campaign for radical supporters of the war and has a better chance than all Russian liberals and Navalny.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of PMC “Wagner”, is the only person in Russia who managed to break through the information blockade of the authorities and win the favor of ordinary Russians. In the future, his candidacy could become a real alternative to President Vladimir Putin. This opinion was expressed to journalists. Focus political scientist Yaroslav Makitra.
According to him, Prigozhin is playing his political game and has ambitions that find support in Russia, and he already has a certain number of supporters in the Russian Federation and this will continue to grow.
“According to the trivial sociology that can be obtained from there, there are about 20-30% of the voters who are affected by Prigozhin’s activities and his style of communication. This is not a minus of his detention in places of detention, but a big plus for the image among Gopnik voters, so to speak. For them, Prigozhin is Putin It could be a real alternative to ‘and has a better chance than all Russian liberals and Navalny.”
The political scientist explained that Prigozhin successfully managed to conduct an information campaign, relying on the so-called radical rashes, supporters of the war, who believed that it was not conducted as it should.
According to him, an information campaign was launched, which gave certain results for Prigozhin, and it was possible to defuse the conflict with the RF Ministry of Defense.
Conflict Prigozhin from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Recall that on May 5, Yevgeny Prigozhin complained about the critical shortage of ammunition at the Wagner PMC. He showed the bodies of many soldiers who died on May 4 and swore to the leadership of the RF Armed Forces: Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
On May 9, Prigozhin announced that his mercenaries would withdraw from Bakhmut if the ammunition did not arrive soon. In this case, the entire front will collapse and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will come to Moscow,” he said.
On the same day, the head of the PMC “Wagner” received a war order from the military leadership of Russia, stating that the departure of the “Wagnerians” from their positions in Bakhmut would be considered treason.
Read more in the article Focus “Wagner is leaving. How Prigozhin has become a dangerous political figure for Putin.”
Source: Focus
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