nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230626-111025-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230626s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230626-111025-0 doi eng 342 23 Partlett, William Author aut Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia’s Expanding Prerogative State Partlett, William Verfassungsblog 2023-06-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Over the weekend, the world’s attention was gripped as a well-equipped Russian private military company led by Evgeny Prigozhin seized control of a key Russian city and military hub, and marched on Moscow. Prigozhin’s actions reveal a deeper truth about Putin’s Russia: the absence of formalised, legal mechanisms for peacefully resolving high-level, intra-elite disputes. As the war in Ukraine drags on, what Ernst Fraenkel called the ‘prerogative state’ is expanding. This lawless realm of unchecked public power has no rules or institutions that can settle disputes among the Russian elite; these can only be resolved by Putin himself. CC BY-SA 4.0 Civil War Russia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/yevgeny-prigozhin-and-russias-expanding-prerogative-state/ raw object