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EXPERT PERPECTIVE — In the wake of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s 36-hour mutiny and the scant and the confusing smoke signals emanating from the Kremlin […] More
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African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to move ahead with their peace plan to end the Ukraine war and renew a deal on the export of Ukrainian grain.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was confident that Russia could replace Ukrainian grain exports to Africa, which have stopped since the end of the Black Sea grain deal.
Russian news agencies quoted Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, as saying the trip will be timed to coincide with a “One Belt, One Road” forum in China.
A precarious deal brokered last summer to help feed the world hangs in the balance over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin, the UN and the E.U. can break a deadlock.
DefenceTalkChina and Russia need to “lead the correct direction of global governance reform”, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who hailed the two countries’ partnership at a meeting with a top Russian politician in Beijing o…
The day Wagner Group leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin attempted to rebel against the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin was enjoying himself at one of the country’s “most popular” events, the Scarlet Sails festival, according to Russian journalist M…
Yevgeniy Prigozhin is the financier and public face of the Wagner Group, but the operational leader is Dmitry Utkin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday confirmed that the Wagner mercenary group was entirely funded by the state, from the budget of Russia’s Ministry of Defense. According to Putin, the Russian government had paid out last year just over 8…
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is trying to allay fears by some Eastern European members over exiled members of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group residing in Belarus.