Putin is sweeping ‘Black August’ under the rug
- Posted on August 23, 2026
- By CNN
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Putin is sweeping ‘Black August’ under the rug
Over the past few decades, “Black August,” or “the August curse,” has become a sort of journalistic shorthand in Russia for dramatic crises that seem to happen in the last weeks of summer. The past summer in Russia has also been shaping up as a bleak season for Putin’s Russia. CNN’s Sebastian Shukla reports.
