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    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      UK politics
      UK to proscribe Russia’s Wagner as terrorist group

      Decision by ministers will make it criminal offence to support mercenary network

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Russian politics
      Chechen warlord shows loyalty to Putin after Prigozhin’s demise

      Ramzan Kadyrov seeks to dispel doubts of allegiance to Kremlin following death of Wagner chief

      Ramzan Kadyrov with Vladimir Putin
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Putin absent from Prigozhin private funeral

      Russian president once close to Wagner warlord stays away from ceremony as security forces keep public away

      Guards watch the grave of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a cemetery near St Petersburg
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      DNA results confirm Prigozhin’s death, Moscow says

      Genetic testing shows Wagner warlord was on board jet as speculation mounts on future of paramilitary group

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Candace Rondeaux
      Prigozhin may be gone but his grim work lives on

      Paramilitary groups will continue to thrive after the warlord’s fiery fall from grace

      A masked paramilitary soldier, Yevgeny Prigozhin in a dark suit and Vladimir Putin in a suit with maps of Russia in the background
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Plane crash was ‘too rough’ for Putin, says Lukashenko

      Belarus leader and Kremlin say Russian president was not involved in death of Prigozhin

      A makeshift memorial for Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Prigozhin crash was not caused by surface-to-air missile, says US

      Initial intelligence reports come as Russia’s president Vladimir Putin says Wagner leader is dead

      A member of Wagner pays tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitri Utkin, a founder of the militia, near its offices in Novosibirsk
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Africa
      Wagner’s lucrative African operations thrown into post-Prigozhin limbo

      Founder’s demise casts fresh doubt over Russia’s ability to maintain mercenary deployments on the continent

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      News in-depthWagner Group
      Wagner mastermind dies in crash alongside Prigozhin

      Dmitry Utkin was brutal commander who coined name of Russian paramilitary group

      A makeshift memorial to Dmitry Utkin in front of the Wagner office in Novosibirsk, Russia
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast21 min listen
      The end of Prigozhin

      Downing of warlord's plane sends brutal message to Putin’s rivals and dissenters

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      News in-depthFT Collections
      FT’s top stories on Wagner

      After downing of Prigozhin’s plane, a look back at his rise and fall

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Alexander Gabuev
      After Prigozhin, Putin reigns supreme

      Hopes that the Wagner boss might have punctured the Russian president’s omnipotence have turned to dust

      A montage of Yevgeny Prigozhin in combat uniform and Vladimir Putin in a suit
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘A signal for the whole elite’: the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin

      Warlord’s plane crashes two months after coup against Vladimir Putin’s regime

      Montage of Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin and a map
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Obituary
      Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner warlord, 1961 — 2023

      The shadowy head of the Russian mercenary group belonged to a new breed of criminal entrepreneur

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      ExplainerRussian insurrection
      Russian insurrection: Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and the fallout

      A timeline of the Wagner militia’s uprising and what happened next

      Wagner group prepares to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to Rostov-on-Don
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Prigozhin in fatal plane crash, Russian officials say

      Ten die on flight from Moscow to St Petersburg, according to emergency ministry

      A photograph posted on a Wagner-linked Telegram channel showing burning plane wreckage in the Tver region north-west of Moscow
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Wagner Group
      UK to proscribe Wagner group within weeks, say government insiders

      Move comes after criticism that ministers have delayed cracking down on paramilitary network’s activities

      Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military contractor, holds a Russian flag in front of his forces in Bakhmut, Ukraine.
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      Rouble-Tether crypto trading surged as Wagner rebellion erupted

      Trading volumes were up 277% as Russians sought an alternative to weakening national currency

      A montage of Wagner group militia fighters, the Wagner flag and the Tether logo
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Wagner boss Prigozhin appears on sidelines of Russia-Africa summit

      Paramilitary group’s founder has continually been seen at events in Russia despite supposedly agreeing exile in Belarus

      Yevgeny Prigozhin shaking hands with Freddy Mapouka
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      UK politics
      UK government taken to task for ‘underplaying’ Wagner’s activities

      MPs say paramilitary group has probably continued to access London financial markets

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Candace Rondeaux
      It will be business as usual for Wagner unless the west acts now

      Yevgeny Prigozhin, undaunted by his failed mutiny, is refocusing on Africa in search of new revenues

      Russian officers from the Wagner Group around Central African Republic president Faustin-Archange Touadera as part of the presidential security system during the referendum campaign in Bangui
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Wagner Group
      Wagner has relocated to Belarus ‘for some time’, Prigozhin says

      Video purporting to be filmed in Belarus suggests forces have moved after failed mutiny in Russia

      Fighters from the Wagner group conduct training exercises for soldiers in Belarus
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      FT CollectionsFT’s top stories on Wagner
      Prigozhin’s ‘toxic’ media empire left in Kremlin limbo

      Vladimir Putin has blocked access to mutinous warlord’s websites but his troll accounts remain active

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Wagner Group
      Wagner faces challenge in African stronghold

      Divisive vote in Central African Republic is first serious test for the mercenary group since Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny

      A man holds a placard reading ‘Centrafricains with Russia’ in Bangui during a pro-Russia demonstration
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Putin met Prigozhin a few days after failed Russian mutiny

      President’s invitation to 35 Wagner commanders is further sign Moscow may not punish ‘traitor’ warlord

      Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company
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