Will Putin be strengthened by the death of Prigozhin?
September 2022 – Ravil Maganov’s fatal fall from the hospital window Ravil Maganov, chairman of the Russian oil company Lukoil, died after falling from a window on the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital. Police suspect that he committed suicide, adding that he was also diagnosed with depression apart from heart problems. Lukoil was the […]
A group of Russian militants fighting on the Ukrainian side called on the Wagner group of mercenaries to switch sides and join their ranks in order to avenge the death of Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commander Dmitry Utkin. Russian air officials said Prigozhin, Utkin and eight other people were on board a private […]
An official announcement showed ten passengers on board the plane that crashed in the Tver region, northwest of Moscow. Russia’s emergency ministry said “everyone on board was killed.”Short biographies related to exiled businessman and opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky published by the site Dossier. Among them was Dmitry Utkin, Prigozhin’s heavyset, shaven-headed right-hand man, who was […]
His profile became so prominent that aides and analysts began speculating that he aspired for an official job or career in politics. However, there is now growing evidence that the Kremlin has moved to nip such speculation in the bud, ordering Prigozhin to stop his public criticism of the Defense Ministry and allowing state media […]
Russia has the world’s largest prison population per capita. Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia, a book on Russia’s criminal and prison cultures, says that Wagner’s potential appeal to prisoners is much broader than a bid for clemency. Serving with Wagner, he said, provides a sense of pride and purpose to convicts […]