From decade in prison to “Putin’s chef”: who is Wagner CEO Evgeny Prigozhin
All countries have mafia — but the Russian mafia has a country, a joke goes. Evgeny (Yevgeniy) Prigozhin,…
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US weighing a terrorism label for Putin ally Prigozhin’s Wagner Group mercenaries – Bloomberg sources
The Biden administration is weighing whether to label Russia’s Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization as part…
Russian prisoner numbers fall by a record 23,000 amid Wagner PMC recruitment campaign
The number of male convicts in Russian jails has fallen by a record 23,000, the Russian independent media…
Executed Wagner POW agreed to be exchanged voluntarily – Ukrainian President’s Office
A Wagner POW Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, allegedly killed by fellow mercenaries had agreed to return to Russia voluntarily,…
Wagner POW who surrendered to Ukraine executed by his own with sledgehammer
Russian Telegram channels have published a video allegedly showing a mercenary of the Wagner private military company (PMC)…
Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits interfering in US elections
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Kremlin-linked oligarch – known as “Vladimir Putin’s chef” indirectly admitted to interfering in the US elections, Ukrainska…
Russia’s Wagner Group financier Prigozhin continues to rely on ineffective convicts to staff his forces – ISW
Prigozhin declined to comment on a reporter’s question regarding ongoing recruitment drives at Krasnoyarsk Krai penal colonies, despite…
Wagner owner Prigozhin likely trying to burnish his credibility within Russia’s security system – British Intel
Owner of Russia’s private military company Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin is “likely trying to burnish his credibility” within Russia’s…
Moscow inserts political operatives into African countries where elections are scheduled
Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives…
Putin’s Cook and other indictments
“Cook of spicy dishes” was how the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin once characterized his successor Joseph Stalin. An…