Gen. Sergei Surovikin, a former commander of Russia’s forces in Ukraine was removed from his post as the chief of Russia’s Air Force, in what appears to be Kremlin’s most public action against those connected to the armed rebellion of the mercenary warlord Yevgeny V. Prigozhin in June.
The low-key crackdown in response to the mutiny, the most drastic threat to President Vladimir V. Putin in his 23-year rule, highlights the Russian leader’s cautious crisis-management style. So far,…