Yevgeny Kuklychev is Newsweek's London-based Senior Editor for Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He previously headed Newsweek's Misinformation Watch and Newsweek Fact Check. Yevgeny focuses on ...

To spur the army, Mr Putin let Evgeny Prigozhin (then boss of Wagner, a state-backed mercenary group) criticise Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s top commander, and Sergei Shoigu, then the defence ...

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The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) investigation into the former lawyers of Russian warlord Evgeny Prigozhin was “supine”, a leading media lawyer has argued. David Hooper said the SRA’s ...

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Prigozhin’s commercial dealings from Kremlin catering contracts and real estate development to oil deals in Syria and lucrative gold- and diamond -mining in Africa, particularly in the violence ...

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It has also been claimed that he was behind the plan to assassinate Yevgeny Prigozhin on a plane, after the Wagner Group chief's failed uprising in 2023. Some say Patrushev's removal from the Security ...

When Vladimir Putin launched his bid to be elected as Russia’s president in 2000, he had already been in the role for a month and a half. His predecessor Boris Yeltsin had stepped down on 31 December ...

However, following the death of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s operations are undergoing a transformation, raising questions about Russia’s future military presence on the continent.