Wagner leader is supposed to be in Belarus. Lukashenko says he’s in Russia
The abortive rebellion represented the biggest threat to Putin in his more than two decades in power, exposing his weakness and eroding the Kremlin’s authority.
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‘It is like a virus that spreads’: business as usual for Wagner group’s extensive Africa network
Despite Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion against the Kremlin, his military contracts are proving too profitable to loseRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesFour days after Wagner group mercenaries marched on Moscow, a Russian envoy flew into Benghazi t…
Kremlin denies China’s president urged Putin not to use nuclear arms in Ukraine
Xi Jining reportedly warned Russian counterpart against using nuclear weapons on visit to Moscow in MarchSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageThe Kremlin has denied a report that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, had personally warned his Russian co…
Russia is more united than ever, Putin tells allies after failed mutiny
President also told leaders from China, Pakistan and India that Russia would stand up to western sanctionsVladimir Putin has said that Russia remains “united as never before” in the wake of the failed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group and claimed th…
Post-Putin Russia: Five Potential Pathways
Putinism without Putin is the most likely post-status quo pathway for Russia, but this will be difficult to sustain.
Centre for prosecuting crimes of aggression opens in The Hague
Aim of the centre is to bring to justice those involved in ‘unspeakable horrors’A centre for the prosecution of crimes of aggression committed in Ukraine has opened in The Hague with the backing of the EU, the US and the international criminal court (I…
‘Yevgeny Prigozhin will never be discussed again’: Russian media to erase all traces of mutinous warlord
The Wagner mercenary group boss who marched on Moscow has had his internet outlets blocked and troll factory closed down Suddenly, Yevgeny Prigozhin is a phantom. Is he in Belarus or St Petersburg? In unconfirmed footage that makes him look like a B…
‘I can’t pick up a gun’: a Ukrainian army chaplain on war, bandits and Russian ‘sadism’
Dmytro Povorotnyi is one of 160 priests who comfort Kyiv’s soldiers. This weekend he’s ready to bless more lost comrades as the counteroffensive intensifiesA hundred or more empty graves have been freshly dug into the vast scrubland that is Krasnopilly…
Putin looks weaker than ever but his opponents should expect vengeance
The Wagner mutiny has damaged the Russian president’s standing but close watchers of the Kremlin believe he is biding his time before respondingFour days after Vladimir Putin faced the most serious challenge to his 23-year leadership, the Russian presi…
Could Yevgeny Prigozhin really have captured Moscow?
Last week’s Wagner revolt was less an attempted coup, more an impulsive demonstration that got out of handRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesCould Yevgeny Prigozhin have somehow captured Moscow last weekend? The emerging consensus – from experts a…