The riot of the founder of the private military company (PMC) Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has shaken the confidence of Russian elites in their President, Vladimir Putin, and has revealed his weakness, according to The Times. The Times notes that Prigozhin’s riot posed a challenge to Putin and the Kremlin. Therefore, as long as the founder of the Wagner PMC remained alive, the specter of revolution haunted the Russian Federation. As The Times reminds, at that time, the Kremlin leader neutralized the threat posed by Prigozhin – the latter’s plane crashed under unknown circumstances. Despite this,…