Russia's leader pledged to take "decisive actions" to halt what he says is a treasonous, armed rebellion by the head of Wagner, a rival fighting force in Ukraine.
Born to a poor ethnic Georgian family in the town of Gori […], Stalin joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party […] and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets.
Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.