“Saturday did not exist”, says a resident of Moscow, after the failed attempt of Yevgeny Prigojine

There were many people in the streets of Moscow on Sunday June 25, but few people wanted to comment on the day on Saturday after the attempted rebellion of Yevgueni Prigojine at the head of the paramilitary group Wagner, which shook the Kremlin . “Yesterday did not exist”, drops a passer-by as he continues on his way. Others remain a little flabbergasted like Maria: “I don’t watch the news much and I don’t know much about politics.she explains. And I don’t know how to react.”

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That said, the prospect of seeing a small army land in the city has not terrified the vast majority of Muscovites. Question of habit according to Igor: “No, it’s not that scary. We’re not afraid of anything, we’re in Russia!”

“Since the 1990s, we have been used to everything. Everything is going well!”

Igor, a Muscovite

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But all closely followed the progress of the Wagner column, with some hope for Sergei. “Prigozhin kind of gave hope that something was going to change. Yesterday there were the conditions required to clear this dictator, Putin,” he confides. “But it didn’t work, Sergei regrets, I hope it will happen. But how I don’t know yet”.

Everyone agrees on this point: something is going to happen, the Kremlin cannot stop there.