title: Pro-War Reactions to PMC Wagner Before and After Its Mutiny
abstract: This article examines a selected sample of pro-war representatives’ writings on Evgeny Prigozhin’s PMC Wagner between May–August 2023, which covers a short period before Prigozhin’s mutiny and two months after it, until Prigozhin’s death. An analysis of the armed power struggle between Wagner and the state is essential when assessing the structural tension of Putin’s personalistic dictatorship, in which an unofficial ‘pocket of efficiency’ created to enhance the regime’s policies poses an armed 