“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia held a lengthy meeting with Yevgeny V. Prigozhin just five days after his Wagner private military company launched a brief mutiny, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said on Monday, noting that ‘further employment options’ for the mercenary group were among the matters discussed. It is the first known contact between the two men since Wagner’s uprising, which posed the most dramatic challenge to Mr. Putin’s authority in his more than two decades in power.” (via The New York Times)
If you would like more context on this matter, please consider Khatuna Mshvidobadze, a professorial lecturer of cyber security at the George Washington University. Her areas of expertise include cyber intelligence & forensics, cyber operations, critical infrastructure protection, information management and cyber policy. Her presentations on “Russian Cyber Threats” have been presented at FBI Headquarters and field offices, US Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, as well as in various American private companies, think tanks, institutions and associations. She also has been Deputy Director of the Information Center on NATO in Georgia and Adviser to the Office of the Minister of Defense of Georgia.
Mshvidobadze can discuss the Wagner mercenaries and these recent developments since the attempted uprising last month as well as overall Russian attacks on Ukraine. She can also speak to Russian cyber-attacks as well.
If you would like to speak with Prof. Mshvidobadze, please contact GW Media Relations Specialist Cate Douglass at [email protected].
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