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On other parts of the app, silence spread through normally vocal accounts. That applied to more conventional propagandists, such as Margarita Simonyan, editor of state TV news network RT. Once a Prigozhin supporter, Simonyan\u2019s Telegram account was quiet on Saturday. Her explanation? She was on a cruise on the River Volga. But parts of the new generation of Telegram influencers were silent too. The anonymous Veteran Notes account, which has 320,000 subscribers, didn\u2019t post as the rebellion started on Friday night\u2014due to circumstances that were \u201cunrelated\u201d to the Wagner rebellion, the account said, without offering explanation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did see silence among some military bloggers who have been playing both sides for the past couple of months,\u201d says Kateryna Stepanenko, a Russia analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank.<\/p>\n

For Wagner-affiliated accounts, such as Call Sign Bruce, run by independent war correspondent Alexander Simonov, the quiet period came later. After a burst of excitement during the mutiny\u2014which involved sharing Prigozhin\u2019s statements and photos from Rostov-on-Don, the city where Wagner briefly took control\u2014the tempo of the accounts\u2019 posts slowed. Simonov has not posted since Monday, June 26.<\/p>\n

Until now, these military bloggers have been unified by a shared nationalism, eager for Russia to win the war in Ukraine, and have had an unusual freedom to criticize government decisions. Earlier in June, several Telegram influencers attended a public meeting with Putin for the first time, where they confronted him with questions like, why do talented people in the military struggle to rise to the top? And why are soldiers not receiving payments for tanks that have been destroyed?<\/p>\n

But that willingness to criticize may be under threat, experts say. As Prigozhin apparently enters into exile in Belarus, the military bloggers have lost a high-profile ally willing to speak openly about military failures in Ukraine. Yet self-censorship started to creep into this group long before the Wagner mutiny, says Stepanenko. \u201cRybar used to go on these very long tangents about how much the Russian Ministry of Defence sucks, essentially,\u201d she says, \u201cNow the account posts mostly situational reports from the battlefield.\u201d The failed Wagner rebellion threatens to accelerate this trend, she adds. \u201cIt might turn some military blogs to deliberately self-censor to make sure they don\u2019t look or sound like Prigozhin.\u201d<\/p>\n

These bloggers have been useful to the Kremlin, says Ian Garner, historian and Russian propaganda researcher. They represent a new blend of citizen-journalism-meets-propaganda. \u201cThey give the impression that ordinary citizens are really enthusiastic about the war,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

But there have been signs that Putin wants to bring the voenkory<\/em> in line. The June meeting was likely an attempt to show the bloggers they are valued and respected, says Garner. \u201cIt was part of a wider attempt to bring this fraying and disparate network of info warriors and troops at the front all under the purview of the Ministry of Defence and the state.\u201d Prigozhin\u2019s mutiny may have inadvertently given that effort more leverage.<\/p>\n

This new generation of Telegram influencers will be painfully aware that if Putin turns against them, he\u2019ll already have the tools to crack down. In March this year, Moscow tightened its censorship laws, meaning anyone \u201cdiscrediting\u201d the army can be punished with up to five years in prison. By May, 80 people had been prosecuted under the new rules, according to human rights group OVD-Info. So far, the law has only been used to target bloggers who oppose the war\u2014not those who support it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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