Prigozhins

A week after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group’s mutiny failed in June, the warlord’s online media empire announced it would shut its doors and “depart the country’s news agenda”.But since then Prigozhin’s notorious troll army has kept up…

The public broadcast of police raids on Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin’s home and office are an obvious attack on the mercenary’s cherished reputation as a straight-talking patriot fighting against corruption – and,…

Guns, drugs, gold bars, unconvincing wigs and a framed photo of severed heads — Russian state media this week deluged audiences with images they said were taken during a raid on the St Petersburg home of Wagner warlord Yevgeny…

The Wagner uprising © Reuters June 23: Prigozhin announces ‘march for justice’“Wagner’s commanders have come to a decision. The evil being spread by the country’s military leadership must be stopped,”…

The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking credit for stepping in to broker Wagner’s retreat and saving Russia from chaos. FRANCE 24 spoke to Pavel Slunkin, a former Belarusian diplomat, who shed light on what…

Russia’s embattled defence minister was in the hot seat long before Yevgeny Prigozhin sent his Wagner mercenaries racing to Moscow on a stated mission to oust him. The latter’s failure shows President Vladimir Putin is…

The first armed uprising attempted in Russia in three decades started with a crackly voice-note left on the Telegram messenger app. It was warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, accusing the army’s leadership of “murdering tens of thousands of Russian…

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin triggered a crisis in Russia on Saturday with an armed rebellion headed to Moscow. But by the following day, the 62-year-old mercenary leader appeared to have played all of his cards and now faces…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s forces are moving toward Moscow, according to a local governor, as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses his former ally of an “attempt at…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to defend the country from an armed rebellion declared by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, which Putin called a stab in the back to Russia. All those who prepared the…