Yevgeny Prigozhin news: Latest on Wagner Group leader and Russia

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Who stands against - or WITH - Putin? Map shows which nations - such as North Korea and Syria - have voiced support for Ukraine invasion, those against… and those trying to avoid taking sides

02/03/22 13:00

Vladimir Putin's barbaric invasion of Ukraine has drawn sharp criticism from around the world with leaders lining up to denounce the Russian despot. NATO, the EU and their allies have been providing weapons and military hardware to Ukraine while imposing harsh sanctions on Russia intended to cripple the economy. But many countries have refused to condemn the military action which has already cost the lives of hundreds of civilians, deciding to preserve their own historic or trade links with the world's largest nation. They are trying to maintain a balancing act, fearing the consequence of upsetting Russia while not stirring up protests back home and losing Ukraine as an ally. Some have gone even further and pledged support for Putin, claiming it is the West who provoked him and he has a right to stake a claim for Ukraine through the bloody war....read

World's richest crypto billionaire says he ignored Ukraine's direct plea to ban all Russians from his Binance platform to avoid 'beating up' ordinary Russian citizens... when sanctioned oligarchs can still trade in gold and diamonds
02/03/22 10:46
Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (pictured) said 'we don't view it as our power' to block everyone in Russia from using the exchange in the wake of the war.
A bunch of thugs so vicious they filmed themselves torturing, dismembering and then setting fire to a Syrian army deserter: Professor MARK GALEOTTI on the mercenary squad 'tasked with assassinating Zelensky and 23 other Ukrainian leaders'
28/02/22 22:24
Professor MARK GALEOTTI: The Wagner Group (pictured) filmed this vicious attack in 2017 in Syria, including the aftermath when they kicked the man's head around like a football.
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Putin's 'thugs for hire' militia with orders to kill Zelensky: Shadowy Wagner mercenaries who have been flown in from Africa with 23-strong hit list including Ukraine's president and the Klitschko brothers
28/02/22 13:01
The Wagner Group - which is believed to have a hit list of 23 key figures including the Klitschko brothers - is considered by military experts to be at Putin's beck and call.
Kremlin blames LIZ TRUSS for its nuke threat: Putin stooge says Foreign Secretary's 'unacceptable' statement about risk of NATO conflict prompted Russian ruler to put nuclear arsenal on 'alert
28/02/22 08:18
Vladimir Putin said he had placed Moscow's nuclear forces on a 'special regime of combat duty' in response to 'aggressive statements' from members of the Nato defence alliance.
Viral photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that won him legions of fans as he defends Kyiv from Russian invasion is actually a YEAR old - but his recent exploits are far more impressive
28/02/22 06:40
The image of the pin-up president dressed in combat gear has gone viral since the war erupted on Friday, but the inspiring pic was actually taken long before Russian tanks targeted Kyiv.
Kremlin 'sends more than 400 mercenaries from private militia into Kyiv to assassinate President Zelensky and his government' - with group told peace talks are 'smoke and mirrors'
28/02/22 02:31
A private militia known as the Wagner Group 'has orders from Vladimir Putin to decapitate Zelensky's government to pave the way for Moscow to take over.'
France withdraws its soldiers from Mali after a decade fighting jihadists as Macron denies mission was a 'failure' and blames deal between junta and 'predatory' Russian mercenaries
17/02/22 18:44
French authorities made the decision amid tensions with the ruling military junta of Mali, which President Emmanuel Macron suspects has struck a deal with a Russian mercenary group.
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Dictator Lukashenko says Ryanair hijack journalist was planning a 'bloody revolution' as part of a 'hybrid war' by the West against Belarus: Roman Protasevich's girlfriend appears in 'confession' video amid fears they have been tortured
25/05/21 20:29
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko defied his critics in a fiery speech today, insisting he acted 'lawfully' when he diverted a Rynair jet to arrest a dissident journalist and his girlfriend.
Abducted Belarus journalist's girlfriend 'may be tortured to put pressure on him' it's feared after he appeared 'with broken nose and missing teeth': Transcript of fake bomb alert to Ryanair pilot is revealed
25/05/21 15:14
Andrey Sapega and Anna Dudich, parents of Sofia Sapega who was arrested in Minsk on Sunday alongside her boyfriend Roman Protasevich, have spoken of their fears that she will be tortured in jail.
Putin critic is badly beaten outside his home in Moscow a week after Alexei Navalny was poisoned on a flight from Siberia
31/08/20 14:55
Yegor Zhukov, 22, was left with a bloodied and swollen face after an attack by 'two thugs who disappeared on scooters' outside his home in Moscow.
Kremlin-linked businessman dubbed 'Putin's chef' vows to financially ruin poisoned Alexei Navalny as Britain backs calls for independent investigation
26/08/20 09:40
Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose company Konkord has laid on catering for the Kremlin, said that if Navalny recovers he'll go after him for £885,000 he owes in damages.
Russian mercenary leader's 99 calls to Putin revealed: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's links to the Kremlin are revealed in leaked phone records and emails
14/08/20 11:22
Calls revealed by Bellingcat show that restaurateur and suspected Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was in regular contact with Russia's elite.
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Justice Department will DROP charges against two Russian firms accused by Robert Mueller of helping to run a 'troll farm' to sway the 2016 election in Donald Trump's favour
17/03/20 08:52
US prosecutors want to drop charges against Russian firms Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering over fears that a trial will expose intelligence gathering techniques.
Vladimir Putin-backing newspaper claims gunman who killed two in rampage at FSB headquarters could have been 'working' for British intelligence
24/12/19 12:12
Yevgeny Manyurov, 39, was shot dead after killing two FSB officers and wounding five people and state investigators are scrambling to find the motive for the 19 December gun club attack.
REVEALED: Sophisticated Russian trolls are luring Twitter users to their accounts with heartwarming posts - then spreading disinformation to build distrust ahead of the 2020 election
26/11/19 00:32
Clemson University professors and Russian trolling experts Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren reveal how Russia's 2020 disinformation operations work by sharing 'Trojan horse' uplifting tweets.
Russian Wagner mercenaries are exposed for filming horrifying video of Syrian prisoner being beaten with sledgehammers and beheaded
23/11/19 10:46
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The footage is thought to have been filmed in an oil field west of Palmyra, Syria, in 2017 as four Russian-speaking soldiers attack a Syrian national.
Russian mercenaries are beheaded by ISIS-linked Islamists in Mozambique
01/11/19 09:29
Seven Russian mercenaries were killed in two separate attacks claimed by ISIS in Mozambique last month, including four who were ambushed, shot and then beheaded.
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Facebook discovers Russian disinformation campaign targeting Africa and takes down accounts linked to Vladimir Putin ally
30/10/19 15:33
A network of accounts linked to alleged 'troll farm' kingpin Yevgeny Prigozhin (pictured left with Vladmir Putin) were suspended after targeting more than a million people in eight African countries.
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Russia has tried to reignite the Troubles with fake social media posts as part of a destabilising operation that has been running for five years, claims US think-tank
26/06/19 08:48
Fake news about the DUP being 'open' to uniting Ireland and claims that the Real IRA was trying to hoover up ISIS fighters to begin a new phase of 'bloody confrontation' were spread online.
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Revealed: The 81 targets told to hand over documents in Democrats' 'abuse of power' probe into Trump
04/03/19 17:06
Here are the 81 people and entities sent letters and document requests by the House Judiciary Committee in a massive escalation of the war against Trump by Democrats.
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Mueller accuses Russian troll farm run by 'Putin's chef' of using prosecution documents shared with its lawyers in 'disinformation campaign'
30/01/19 21:45
Prosecutors say self-described 'hackers' published documents shared with the defense in case related to election interference – in an effort to 'discredit' the Mueller probe.
Model who claimed she had proof of Russian support for Donald Trump's election campaign is detained in Moscow after being deported from Thailand for her part in 'sex training course'
18/01/19 02:05
Anastasia Vashukevich and a group of associates was taken into custody at Moscow Airport after being deported from Thailand.
Russian campaign to get social media to 'grow a spine and vote Jill Stein' to help Trump win the 2016 election detailed in leaked Senate report
22/12/18 22:22
Leaked Senate reports show Russian social media operations frequently boosted Green Party candidate Jill Stein in order to aid Donald Trump's candidacy over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
'I know many things but I don't know English': 'Simple Russian woman' mocks election meddling charges saying she's 'filled with pride' to help America the superpower elect their president
23/10/18 03:35
Elena Khusyaynova, 44, responded to Friday's allegations in a video Monday on the Federal News Agency website saying she was 'surprised and shocked' by the claims from Justice Department.
Infamous Russian ‘troll factory set up by Putin’s “cook”’ is set on FIRE with a Molotov cocktail
09/10/18 16:17
The Federal News Agency (FAN) was targeted at around 3am on Tuesday when a suspect broke into the building's ground floor in St Petersburg and threw a Molotov cocktail, police said.
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Sergei Skripal was tailed on the eve of the Novichok attack... so was there a SECOND spy team?
09/09/18 00:25
Ross Cassidy said Mr Skripal – who betrayed dozens of his old comrades to MI6 – seemed ‘spooked’ and changed his mobile phone amid concern it was being monitored.
Three Russian journalists are killed in an ambush in the Central African Republic while working on an investigation into mercenaries linked to Putin's 'chef'
01/08/18 13:06
Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal were found dead outside Sibut in the Central African Republic, officials said.
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'Donald' told me he's worried about an arms race claims Vladimir Putin, who says that his 'chef' could never sway U.S. elections
05/06/18 16:44
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he 'fully' agrees with President Donald Trump on the treat of a new arms race with the U.S.
Blow for Mueller as judge slaps down his request for delay in Russian troll farm case
06/05/18 05:57
US District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich issued the brief order on Saturday evening, denying Mueller's request to delay the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management.
Reporter who investigated the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria dies after 'falling' from a fifth-floor balcony
17/04/18 10:03
Maksim Borodin fell from his flat in Yekaterinburg on Thursday and died in hospital on Sunday. His death is not being treated as suspicious but his editor has said he had no reason to kill himself.
Russian ships set sail from Syrian HQ ahead of US airstrikes: Satellite images show 11 vessels have deserted Tartus port - but are they fleeing or preparing to shoot down missiles?
12/04/18 08:21
Overhead Images show how at least 11 navy vessels, including the frigate Admiral Grigorovich, appear to have left the Tartus military base on the Syrian coast.
Reddit user who posted a fake porn video of Hillary Clinton is traced to notorious Russian 'troll farm' as 1,000 pro-Trump accounts based in St. Petersburg are removed
10/04/18 23:42
A notorious Russia-based 'troll farm' has been blamed for posting a pornographic video on Reddit that falsely purports to feature former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Moscow hits back at Trump: The Kremlin will blacklist Americans after the White House unveiled new sanctions on Russia over nerve agent attack in Britain
16/03/18 10:18
Moscow will respond to a new set of U.S. sanctions announced by the White House yesterday, by expanding its list of banned Americans, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
Trump sanctions 19 Russians including Putin's oligarch chef, his chief foreign spy and the internet trolls who meddled in the election
15/03/18 21:24
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 19 Russian individuals and five organizations over malicious cyber activity including the meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
'It looks like the Russians were behind it': White House unveils new sanctions against Putin - focused on his spies and cronies - as Trump joins France, Germany and the UK in condemning nerve gas attack
15/03/18 14:44
'The recent use of a military grade nerve agent in an attempt to murder two UK citizens further demonstrates the reckless and irresponsible conduct of its government,' an official said Thursday.
Russia is hacking US energy grid, nuclear facilities and aviation systems says Trump administration - and cyber war has been going on for two years
15/03/18 14:35
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued an unprecedented warning that 'Russian government cyber actors' have planted malware and spear phished in critical systems.
FBI agents were 'blocked from contacting oligarch's mistress and her sex coach boyfriend after they offered proof of Russian meddling in US election in exchange for their release from a Thai prison'
13/03/18 15:50
Anastasia Vashukevich and Alexander Kirillov are imprisoned in Thailand where they were arrested for running a sex workshop for tourists in Pattaya.
'I couldn't care less!': Putin tells Megyn Kelly he is unbothered when she asks what he would think if its proven that 13 indicted Russians did meddle in the US election
10/03/18 05:10
While speaking with NBC's Megyn Kelly last week, Vladimir Putin said 'I couldn't care less' when asked how he would feel if 13 indicted Russians did meddle in the election.
Megyn Kelly reveals Putin called Trump out on a LIE and suggested 13 Russians indicted for meddling in US election could have been working for an American entity
09/03/18 22:44
NBC's Kelly said that during her 'tense' interview with Putin, Russia's leader directly contradicted Trump on something the US president has repeatedly said.
'Certainly there was meddling': Trump says Russia monkey-wrenched US election but 'had no impact' on the result – as he warns he'll 'counteract' any interference this November
06/03/18 22:45
'The Russians had no impact on our votes whatsoever, but certainly there was meddling and probably there was meddling from other countries and maybe other individuals,' Trump said.
Vladmir Putin tells Megyn Kelly that Russia will NEVER extradite the 13 nationals indicted by the U.S. for election meddling
04/03/18 17:42
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would 'never' extradite the 13 Russian nationals indicted in the U.S. for election meddling efforts in 2016.
Show us the evidence then! Putin tells Megyn Kelly the US must send proof that Russia meddled in 2016 election, and insists accusations to date are just 'yelling and hollering' by Congress
03/03/18 10:56
Putin was interviewed by Megyn Kelly for NBC's Nightly News on Friday. He would not say whether or not he would take action against the 13 Russian nationals charged with election interference
Oligarch who organized notorious 'troll factory' was behind attack by Russian mercenaries on U.S. troops in Syria
23/02/18 23:38
The Russian known as 'Putin's chef' indicted for meddling in the presidential election is accused of being behind the Russian mercenaries who staged an attack on U.S. forces in Syria.
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Russian husband and wife 'troll team' indicted by FBI for 'creating fake American personas' to meddle in 2016 election as former classmate claims they 'chose Trump'
20/02/18 15:02
Married couple Maria Anatolyevna Bovda and Robert Sergeyevish Bovda are accused of being part of a Russian 'troll factory' that meddled with the 2016 election.
EXCLUSIVE: How billionaire troll-in-chief Yevgeny Prigozhin – indicted by FBI for leading the effort to interfere in 2016 election – lives in lap of luxury as 'Putin's chef' with a 847M ruble ($15M) estate, a 121-foot yacht and private jet
19/02/18 18:25
The man behind Putin's notorious 'troll factories' indicted by the FBI for trying to influence the 2016 election is Yevgeny Prigozhins. 56, a billionaire.
Furious Trump lets rips at 'fake news media' for not reporting Facebook exec's tweet confirming majority of Russian spend on ads happened AFTER the election
18/02/18 00:48
In a barrage of angry tweets on Saturday afternoon, Trump used Rob Goldman's words that the goal of the Russian influence operation was to sow fear and hatred in the United States.
Inside the Internet Research Agency: How 'troll factory' interfered with the US election by posting fake Facebook and Instagram ads and organizing pro-Trump rallies all the way from Russia
17/02/18 19:21
Details about the ominous organization floated around in the international media before Friday's charges were brought, but never before has there been such insight into the operation.
Inside the Russian 'troll factory': How Putin's unlikely cyber recruits deployed waves of fake news articles, memes and divisive social media posts in the Kremlin's information war on the West
12/11/17 13:23
Vitaly Bespalov worked as an employee at the St Petersburg 'troll factory' now being scrutinized in the Senate intelligence committee's investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
Putin's fake news HQ: Inside the building where cyber trolls sowed seeds of division that may have helped Trump and, as a whistleblower now claims, poisoned the Brexit debate too
04/11/17 22:00
From the outside, it is an unexceptional glass and marble building on the northern edge of St Petersburg. But this is the nerve centre of Vladimir Putin's cyber army.
Private jet, 120-ft yacht and a VERY lavish daughter’s wedding: How Putin's 'court jester' went from ex-con hot dog seller to billionaire 'head of Russia’s secret troll factory'
07/10/16 10:51
Only 15 years ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 55, was making mustard in his own home and bribing gangsters to allow him to sell his wares in kiosks around St Petersburg, a new investigation claims.
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