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Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariins

A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal street memorial near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, August 26, 2023. © Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP

Prigozhin’s death in plane crash confirmed – Moscow

 07:15 27/08/2023

DNA testing shows that all those listed on the flight manifest were indeed on board, the Investigative Committee has said
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Wagner mercenaries must swear allegiance to Russia - Putin

 09:39 26/08/2023

President Vladimir Putin has called on all employees of Wagner and other Russian private military contractors to take an oath of allegiance to the Russian state.
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With Prigozhin dead, Putin has traded low-budget global reach for safety at home

 09:29 26/08/2023

While Putin's spokesperson denied that he'd killed Prigozhin, a former Kremlin official told Insider that the rebellion made his death "inevitable."
Wagner fighters have been providing security for the president of the Central African Republic for years. LEGER SERGE KOKPAKPA/REUTERS

Prigozhin Built a Russian Empire in Africa. Can It Survive Him?

 23:53 25/08/2023

Paramilitary group has an estimated 5,000 men and lucrative businesses across at least four African nations.
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The Godfather in the Kremlin

 23:34 25/08/2023

The very public death of Putin henchman Yevgeny Prigozhin highlights the evolution of Russia into a mafia state held together by violence and incapable of global leadership.
Yevgeny Prigozhin ©  Sputnik / Elena Kopylova

Prigozhin plane crash: Investigation, versions, aftermath

 09:02 25/08/2023

DNA tests are underway to identify deceased Wagner Group members as the Kremlin rejects Western claims it was culpable
credit: REUTERS/Anastasia Barashkova

Kremlin calls accusations it killed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin an 'absolute lie'

 06:39 25/08/2023

The Kremlin also said it was impossible to say whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend the funeral of Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

A banner with portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin outside the local office of Wagner Group in Novosibirsk, Russia. PHOTO: STRINGER/REU

Intelligence Suggests Prigozhin Assassinated, U.S. Says

 13:31 24/08/2023

Preliminary findings suggest it wasn’t surface-to-air missile that took down Wagner leader’s plane
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Yevgeny Prigozhin May Have the Last Laugh

 06:29 24/08/2023

The Kremlin seems to be rid of a dangerous challenger. But at what price?
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Wagner chief’s rebellion against Putin may have caught up with him

 21:43 23/08/2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger in a fatal plane crash.
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How Russia reacted after Prigozhin plane crash

 21:33 23/08/2023

Russia is a country full of surprises.
FILE PHOTO: Evgeny Prigozhin stands at a cemetery for fallen PMC Wagner fighters in Krasnodar, Russia, April 2023 ©  Telegram / @concordgroup_official

Prigozhin plane crash: What we know so far

 19:47 23/08/2023

The Wagner Group chief was traveling on board a private jet that crashed in Russia with no survivors
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Russian general who ran Ukraine war fired - report

 19:45 23/08/2023

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.
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How Russian state media is tearing down Prigozhin’s reputation as a ‘man of the people’

 19:43 23/08/2023

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. 
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Plane Reportedly Carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin Crashes in Russia

 14:19 23/08/2023

Prigozhin’s press secretary declined to comment on the incident, Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak reported.
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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash

 14:04 23/08/2023

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.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address at an unknown location, in this still image taken from video possibly shot in Africa, on Monday. PMC Wagner/Reuters

Plane believed to be carrying Wagner’s Prigozhin crashes in Russia, state media says

 13:39 23/08/2023

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.
A rocket carrying Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft launched earlier this month. PHOTO: SERGEI SAVOSTYANOV/TASS/ZUMA PRESS

Russia’s Luna-25 Spacecraft Crashes Into Moon

 07:53 20/08/2023

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


 
The four-legged Luna-25 lander, which weighs around 800 kilograms, is expected to touch down in the region of the lunar south pole © Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP

Russia to launch first lunar mission in nearly half a century Friday

 23:13 07/08/2023

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. 

 


 
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on a TV screen during a June court hearing, says the charges against him are trumped up. PHOTO: ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Navalny Given New 19-Year Sentence in Russia as Putin Moves to Silence Dissent

 06:23 05/08/2023

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