Vladimir Putin on Monday thanked Russia's government and citizens for rallying behind "the fate of the Fatherland" in the face of armed rebellion.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, ended with Prigozhin's troops beating a retreat over the weekend. The uprising marked an extraordinary challenge to President Putin's two-decade hold on power and could have long-term consequences for his rule and his war in Ukraine.
Putin looked solemn and determined as he emphasized that steps were immediately taken to "neutralize the threat" and "avoid a lot of bloodshed."
A weekend of chaos in Russia has left Russians, and the world, with more questions than answers. 
With shocking ease and the stated aim of ousting Russia’s defense minister, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner troops swept into Rostov on Saturday and seized the military headquarters there. 
Vladimir Putin.
Then as quickly as it happened, it seemed to be over. A deal was reached and the march was stopped without a word from the key players. 
Putin said in his five minute speech, “I would like to stress that we immediately made all the decisions to neutralize the threat, and to protect the constitutional order and the lives and security of our citizens. The armed rebellion would have been put down in any case. The rebellion’s organizers, despite losing common sense, could not help but understand this.”
U.S. networks scrambled to cover the unfolding situation amid concerns over Russia’s restrictions on press freedom and threats to journalists reporting in the country, particularly since the arrest of The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich in March. That has created confusion and uncertainty over sources of information coming from state media and social media platforms.
CNN’s Matthew Chance had been in Kyiv when the rebellion started and then went back to Moscow to report on the situation there. NBC News Keir Simmons also has been in the city, and MSNBC is planning a primetime special on Monday, Russia in Crisis, with Ali Velshi from Kyiv. But networks and other news organizations have had a more limited presence in the country since the passage last year of a new censorship law.
A strong history rooted in democratic norms is no guarantee that a political rebellion can’t have similarly striking results. President Lyndon Johnson was the presumptive Democratic nominee for President in 1968 until anti-war Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota nearly won the New Hampshire primary and claimed 20 of its 24 delegates. A little less than three weeks later, LBJ was out of the race. It was similar when Ronald Reagan challenged incumbent President Gerald Ford in 1976 and Edward M. Kennedy sought to deny Jimmy Carter re-nomination in 1980. Both men won re-nomination and then lost the general election in November of those years. In the U.K., Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher faced her own Tory revolt in 1990, prevailed on the first round of voting, but a quick-moving Cabinet revolt forced the end of an 11-year run.
“Putin’s message tonight to the Wagner mercenaries was EXACTLY what Prigozhin was trying to say a few days ago to the Russian conventional soldiers. ‘You guys are good. Your commanders are bad.'”
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