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Yevgeny Prigozhin

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Prigozhin secretly used JPMorgan and HSBC for Wagner payments

    Banks unwittingly handled transactions for companies in Africa controlled by deceased Russian warlord

    Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen addressing the camera in a military outfit while holding a rifle in a barren, open landscape. In the background, another individual and a vehicle are visible.
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The chilling rise and fall of Wagner Group warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin

    The fortunes of the Kremlin caterer turned Russian mercenary chief were inextricably — and fatally — tied to Putin’s patronage

    A mid-aged man wearing a cap and khaki military gear seated in the rear seat of a car and smiling at admirers through an open car window
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    News in-depthAlexei Navalny
    After Navalny: ‘They will arrest the activists . . .  then everything will die out’

    Opposition figure’s death leaves Russia’s Putin with ‘absolute’ power

    Candles surround photographs during a vigil for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, outside the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia
  • 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
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