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The Kremlin seems to be rid of a dangerous challenger. But at what price?

Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger in a fatal plane crash.

Russia is a country full of surprises.

The Wagner Group chief was traveling on board a private jet that crashed in Russia with no survivors

One of Russia's leading military figures, Gen Sergei Surovikin, has reportedly lost his job as air force chief after weeks of speculation about his disappearance from public view.

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, experts say, a warning to anyone else who might challenge President Vladimir Putin’s rule. 

Prigozhin’s press secretary declined to comment on the incident, Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak reported.

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.

At least 10 people died in the crash of a Wagner-linked private plane outside Moscow, according to Russia’s emergency services. Yevgeniy Prighozin, who led a failed mutiny in June, was on the plane’s manifest, according to a state-run outlet.

Russia has been in a race with India to become the first country to land a rover on the moon’s unexplored south pole.

Moscow (AFP) – Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years. 

The opposition leader, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, was charged with inciting and funding extremism

Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind a drone attack that damaged at least two buildings in the capital Moscow early on Monday morning.

Authorities have taken action against Igor Strelkov on suspicion of extremism, his wife cliams

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA.

All ships heading for Ukrainian ports will be treated as potentially carrying weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the end of the agreement is not related to Ukraine’s attack on the Crimean Bridge

"The hardest thing is that her parents died, dad and mum," Russia's Belgorod governor said.

The US leader delivered his most recent gaffe during a keynote speech at the NATO summit

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin - who led a short-lived armed rebellion in Russia last month - is in Russia and not Belarus, the leader of Belarus says.