https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/wagner/Recent content in Wagner on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-stateless-warlord-prigozhin-and-the-privatization-of-state-violence/Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-stateless-warlord-prigozhin-and-the-privatization-of-state-violence/It is comforting to file Yevgeny Prigozhin under caterer-turned-thug, and the march on Moscow under one-off madness. Both readings miss what he actually was: the purest specimen of a new creature — a man holding no office and no legal authority who wielded state-scale power. His arc from convict-recruiter to mutineer to a man erased in a demonstrative death is the whole logic of a regime that has privatized violence, and in doing so has built the very mechanism of its own future fragmentation.