Yevgeny Prigozhin
Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia’s most powerful mercenary, believed killed in plane crash
RUSSIA’S most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday (Aug 23) evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said, two months to the d...
Biden unsurprised by report of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Aug 23) said he was not surprised by reports that Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had died in a plane crash, adding that not much happens in the country ...
Belarus leader Lukashenko says Prigozhin is back in Russia
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end an armed mutiny in Russia, said on Thursday (Jul 6) that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was no longer in Be...
Russia will emerge stronger after mutiny, so no need to fret, says foreign minister
Russia will emerge stronger after a failed mutiny by Wagner Group mercenaries, so the West need not worry about stability in the world’s biggest nuclear power, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on F...
Putin says he’s back in control, but Russia’s elite isn’t so sure
Vladimir Putin tried this week to show he was firmly in control after the dramatic attempted mutiny by mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Russian mercenary Prigozhin is in Belarus
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin flew to Belarus from Russia on Tuesday (Jun 27) after a mutiny that has dealt the biggest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s authority since he came to power ...
Putin says he let Wagner mutiny continue to avoid bloodshed
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin made a defiant televised address on Monday (Jun 26) evening, saying he had deliberately let Saturday’s 24-hour mutiny by the Wagner militia go on as long as it did to ...
‘We didn’t want to overthrow government’, says Prigozhin in first comments since mutiny
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday (Jun 26), in his first public comments since ending a one-day mutiny by his Wagner force on Saturday, that it was his plan to register a prote...
Rouble hits weakest in 15 months after Wagner challenges Putin
The rouble weakened as much as 3 per cent against the dollar on Monday (Jun 26), the most this year, after a mutiny by mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose brief uprising represents the bigges...
China contends with weakened Putin after Wagner mutiny
A once-in-a-generation security crisis in Russia compounded fears in Beijing that a strategic partner central to its global ambitions is not as stable as it hoped, analysts say.
