Russian rules of thumb.

Finding the signal after a noisy week.

Section from Russia cum Confinijs in Hondius Jodocus and Gerardus Mercator's Atlas, c1595, Duisberg.

In this week’s edition of Not in Dispatches, we wanted to revisit a bit of what we covered last weekend, and in the days since: Russia.

Last week’s mutiny led by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was undoubtedly a significant event – the first serious c…