Russia’s civilian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsiya, said the 62-year-old mercenary leader was among 10 people on board the plane that crashed Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE.

For a brief moment last month, Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared poised to become one of the most important, powerful people on Earth. After months of dispeptic saber-rattling toward the Kremlin over ...

MOSCOW--Russia's most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said, two months to ...