A new book delves deep into the rise and fall of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group and its close ties to Vladimir Putin. Nick Schifrin sat down with Candace Rondeaux, author of "Putin's ...

Beacháin’s book has merits but at times reads more like a polemic than balanced research; Rondeaux’s more nuanced work is a ...

Ukraine has transferred US$770 million to foreign arms suppliers as an advance payment, but much of this weaponry and ammunition has not been delivered. Source: Financial Times, citing documents from ...

Add this to the list of side businesses that Prigozhin’s investments have spawned: Bottled water. Prigozhin was killed in an August 2023 plane crash that US officials believe was a Kremlin ...

He has been reported dead before. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the hot dog seller who became head of the Wagner mercenary group, was said to have died in 2019 when a military aircraft crashed in the ...

Prigozhin later said he launched the uprising after he “lost his temper” in the infighting with his foes. Some commentators said he apparently hoped to persuade Putin to take his side against ...

Now, through searches and arrests of people from the team of Gerasimov and Shoigu, he weakens the side (the military department) that won the conflict with Prigozhin. He doesn't let anyone get ...

Anton Mardasov, a non-resident scholar with the Middle East Institute's Syria program, said it was "obvious" the Kremlin would not side with Prigozhin in his dispute with the Ministry of Defense ...

How did he end up alive while his close people died? This is the choice he [Prigozhin] was faced with. 'I'm not talking about the moral side of this choice. God forbid any of us face such a choice.

Prigozhin, six lieutenants and a flight crew of three, were all killed, and Prigozhin was no longer a threat to Putin or Putin’s stranglehold on Russia. Putin had read his Machiavelli.

Wagner and its founder were enriched by cuts from the money flow and side deals. Western leaders and rights groups long saw Mr. Prigozhin as Putin’s shadowy enforcer — a capo in camouflage ...

Prigozhin seems to have honestly believed the ... It isn’t useful to claim that one side or the other is winning or losing the war at present, but it is easy to see that neither side has yet ...