Cancelled :-(

 

Evgeniy Prigozhin

Sunday the 25th was supposed to be the Medtroika 3000m at the track. Sadly, it like everything else that weekend was cancelled due to Prigozhin's rebellion where he took Rostov and continued up the highway to Moscow with his Wagner troops. Saturday morning I awoke to the news that had begun to develop late Friday as I was heading to bed. Putin was on TV addressing the country and the gravity of the situation. By then, we were at the top of the headlines in most all world news outlets around the globe. It reminded me of some of the things I experienced here in the 90s. It was a very tense Saturday when this all went down to say the least. Security was beefed up in Moscow and the surrounding areas. Progozhin was reported to have about 25000 fighters with him and the thought of that rolling into Moscow was unnerving. The Wagner Group got about two hours from Moscow before calling the march off and turning back after working out a deal with Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko to allow him to go to Belarus. The whole situation left us all scratcing our heads and asking WTF just happened? This is still a developing story as well. 

Ironically, my dentist phoned that day and said he had an opening to bump up my implant surgery from July 8. I said let's do it. Nobody knows what's going to happen day to day and all events in Moscow are cancelled anyways and Monday is a non working day. 

Race cancelled because of COVID-yeh had my fill of that in 2020. Race cancelled because of an armed mutiny-yeh that's a first! We are all just glad that there was not a lot of bloodshed that day which is one of the reasons it was reported Prigozhin turned around-to avoid bloodshed.