Your Monday Briefing

Armed riot shakes Russia

Confusion and uncertainty pervaded Russia yesterday, with neither Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, nor Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of a mercenary pressure often known as Wagner, showing in public the day after an open navy riot led by Prigozhin appeared defused. (Here’s how the mutiny unfolded.)

Prigozhin referred to as off the mercenaries after staging an armed rebellion in opposition to the navy’s management for practically 24 hours over the weekend. But the harm had been finished, not least as a result of his criticism of the navy leaders as incompetent included questioning the Kremlin’s justifications for invading Ukraine within the first place.

Even as state tv tried to trumpet the truth that Russian unity and “maturity” had prevailed, impartial commentators in Russia and world leaders elsewhere concluded that the riot had revealed cracks in Putin’s maintain on energy. The deal that in the end defused the hostilities was credited to Belarus’s chief, Aleksandr Lukashenko, a Putin ally.

Scenes: Russians watched with alarm as Prigozhin’s armored automobiles inched ever nearer to Moscow with little armed opposition, elevating the specter of a civil conflict within the nuclear-armed state. In Rostov-on-Don, residents cheered and embraced the mercenaries as they left on Saturday.

Analysis: “Putin lost because he showed how weak his system is, that he can be challenged so easily,” mentioned Pavel Slunkin, a former Belarusian diplomat and analyst on the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Prigozhin challenged, he attacked, he was so bold and then he retreated, looking like a loser. Only Lukashenko won points.”

For extra: Previously unreported shipments between a state-owned Chinese firm and a Russian munitions manufacturing unit are elevating new questions on Beijing’s position within the conflict in Ukraine.

Jubilation and worries at New York’s Pride parade

Around 75,000 marchers stuffed Manhattan for New York City’s Pride parade. The occasion, with its flags and vibrant floats, commemorates the Stonewall riots in 1969 that spurred the trendy L.G.B.T.Q. rights motion. With roughly two million spectators, it’s the largest of its variety within the U.S., based on organizers.

The occasion is broadcast on community tv, a mirrored image of the truth that public help for L.G.B.T.Q. folks has by no means been larger, coming in at over 60 p.c in current polls. But since same-sex marriage turned authorized nationwide in 2015, backlash has grown, and prior to now yr a number of states have handed quite a few anti-gay legal guidelines, comparable to ones banning drag performances and transgender well being care.

Conservative-led boycotts in opposition to firms that when embraced Pride festivities have led to billions of {dollars} in company losses. The backlash has additionally entered the 2024 presidential race, as Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, has staked his Republican main hopes on opposition to L.G.B.T.Q. rights and has clashed with companies, like Disney, that help them.

Concerns: Heritage of Pride, which organizes the march, cited the worsening political local weather in an open letter this month. “Despite the progress we have made together, we are currently under siege,” the organizers wrote.

Mapping queer recollections: A crowdsourced digital atlas has collected over half one million intimate recollections from nameless contributors.

Results from the Greek election

Greek voters overwhelmingly re-elected the conservative New Democracy social gathering, based on preliminary outcomes, paving the best way for an absolute majority for its chief, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The landslide victory appeared to indicate that voters had ignored his authorities’s ties to scandals and embraced his promise of continued financial stability and prosperity.

In a press release, Mitsotakis described the outcomes as “a strong mandate, to move more quickly along the road of major changes.” However, turnout was simply over 52 p.c, in contrast with 61 p.c within the first elections held in May. He mentioned of those that had voted: “In a resounding and mature way, they put a definitive end to a traumatic cycle of toxicity that had held the country back and divided society.”

By the numbers: With 91 p.c of the votes counted at 9:45 p.m., the social gathering had 40.5 p.c, and was poised to win 158 seats in Greece’s 300-member Parliament, far forward of the opposition Syriza social gathering, which was in second place with 17.8 p.c and 47 seats. The socialist Pasok social gathering took third place, with 12.5 p.c and 32 seats.

Tech risk: The use of A.I. in elections worldwide has set off a scramble for guardrails in opposition to disinformation.

Call it Barbiecore: Hot pink, fuchsia and magenta are surging in recognition in residence décor, with the forthcoming “Barbie” film serving as a catalyst.

“I like the other pinks, but hot pink just does something,” mentioned a 30-year-old mannequin. “It’s electrifying. It makes me so happy and makes me feel alive. So I kind of let my younger self guide me.”

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ARTS AND IDEAS

‘Hava Nagila’ on the membership

“Hava Nagila,” a beloved folks tune historically performed at Jewish life occasions, together with weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs, is now making appearances at extremely secular, non-Jewish gatherings. You may hear it at a baseball recreation in New York City or a seashore membership in Ibiza.

The tune was written in 1918 by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, a composer who believed the Jewish folks wanted new music at a time when Zionism and the push for a Jewish homeland have been gaining power. It turned an prompt casual hit.

James Loeffler, a professor of Jewish historical past on the University of Virginia, mentioned he wasn’t shocked “Hava Nagila” was getting a lot airtime immediately. “It’s a song that is about transformation and reinvention, so that is destined to keep happening,” he mentioned. “It’s always had new lives.”