The weekend mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, was the most serious threat to President Vladimir Putin in his over two decades in power. Though Prigozhin made it clear that the idea was to force Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the man leading the war in Ukraine, out of office, it was nevertheless a challenge to Putin’s authority. With video clips of tanks and soldiers marching towards Moscow in all appearance, it seemed like a full-scale military coup.