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Yevgeny Prigozhin - Wikipedia

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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (Russian: Евгений Викторович Пригожин, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈɡoʐɨn]; 1 June 1961 - 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group private military company and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023.

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged the Kremlin in a

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FILE - In this handout image taken from a video released by Prigozhin Press Service on Friday, May 5, 2023, head of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin stands in front of multiple bodies lying on the ground in an unknown location. Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023 killing all 10 people on board.

From Putin's 'personal chef' to rebel: Who was Wagner chief Yevgeny

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address in camouflage and with a weapon in his hands in a desert area at an unknown location, in this still image taken

Yevgeny Prigozhin: From Putin's chef to rebel in chief - BBC

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Yevgeny Prigozhin hails from St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's home city. He received his first criminal conviction in 1979, aged just 18, and got a suspended two-and-a-half year sentence for theft.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Renegade Mercenary Chief Who Rattled Kremlin

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/europe/yevgeny-prigozhin-dead.html
Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, a Russian prisoner of war held by Ukraine, in October. He defected after agreeing to fight for Wagner and was killed. A video depicting his brutal murder made the rounds on

What we know about Russia plane crash that reportedly killed Prigozhin

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Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is confirmed to have died in a plane crash north of Moscow following DNA testing of the bodies found in the wreckage, Russia's investigative committee says

Wagner chief Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic analysis of plane

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By Leila Sackur. Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed dead after genetic analysis of the bodies from Wednesday's plane crash, Russian officials said Sunday. After

Russia-Ukraine War: Paramilitary Chief Abruptly Ends Standoff in Russia

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, halted his march on Moscow and withdrew his forces from a southern Russia military hub. Russia dropped charges against Mr. Prigozhin

Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary listed as a passenger

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Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, center, founder of the mercenary military group Wagner, attending the funeral of a Russian military blogger in Moscow, in April. Yulia Morozova/Reuters. Yevgeny V. Prigozhin

Wagner chief Prigozhin confirmed dead by Russian authorities ... - CNN

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CNN —. Russian investigators have confirmed that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the 10 people killed when their plane crashed Wednesday, after carrying out genetic tests. Prigozhin, who

Yevgeny Prigozhin | Wagner Group, Sanctions, & Death

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Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian oligarch, best known as the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit. Prigozhin grew up in difficult neighborhoods of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1981 a Soviet court found the 20-year-old Prigozhin guilty of having been involved in drunkenness,

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin latest: Pentagon dismisses missile ... - BBC

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The US has rejected suggestions that a surface-to-air missile brought down a plane presumed to have been carrying Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday. Pentagon officials also said Prigozhin

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is buried in private, ending

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The plane crash came exactly two months after Wagner Group's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a rebellion against the Russian military leadership, leading his mercenaries to take over the military headquarters in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and then launching a march on Moscow. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) Share.

'A signal for the whole elite': the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner warlord, 1961 — 2023. Yudin added: "It took them two months to investigate it, make the verdict and execute it. Had they concluded that Surovikin was part of the plot

Plane crash believed to have killed Russia's Wagner mercenary chief

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A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former 'PMC Wagner Centre' in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Russia's civil aviation agency says mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow.

What could have caused the plane crash that reportedly killed ... - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/europe/prigozhin-wagner-russia-plane-crash-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address in camouflage and with a weapon in his hands in a desert area at an unknown location, in this still image taken

What we know about the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin

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Russia's news agency Tass is reporting a plane crash. And that among the passengers listed on the flight: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief who kicked off a mutiny two months ago.

Russia officially confirms Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in

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A specialist works at the site of a crash of a private jet linked to Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in the Tver region, Russia, Aug. 24, 2023. Photo by Anton Vaganov/REUTERS

Yevgeny Prigozhin: The convicted thief who wants to take control of

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Yevgeny Prigozhin is a convicted thief, a Russian Oligarch and the founder and boss of the Wagner mercenary group. Despite private military companies being illegal in Russia, President Putin's

What to Know About the Plane Crash That Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/world/europe/prigozhin-plane-crash-russia-wagner.html
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group who staged a brief mutiny in June, was among 10 people who died when a private plane crashed outside Moscow on Wednesday. Mr

Who Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? | Council on Foreign Relations

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Who Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? By Stephen Sestanovich, CFR Expert. August 24, 2023 3:44 pm (EST) Numerous competing theories are likely to surface about the demise of the Russian paramilitary

Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner group boss? - Al Jazeera

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian Wagner Group mercenary force, was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, Russia's state-owned TASS news

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash - BBC

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Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed in Russia killing all 10 people on board, Russia's civil aviation authority says.

Putin Admits Prigozhin Was Right With Wild New Purge - The Daily Beast

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It also seemed like posthumous greetings from Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose rageful demands for the ouster of top military leadership during his short-lived mutiny last year seem

Wagner's Prigozhin Says Russia Failed to 'Demilitarize' Ukraine

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Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said this week that Russia has failed to achieve one of its main goals, demilitarizing Ukraine, and has actually made Kyiv's army stronger through its invasion.

Here's why Russia is investigating Prigozhin - CNN

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the bombastic chief of Russia's private mercenary group Wagner, appears to be falling out of favor fast in Moscow, after he unleashed a tirade against the Russian military on

Putin's New Defense Minister Secretly Had Close Ties to Yevgeny

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Andrei Belousov was close to the late Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin —so close, according to a new report by opposition investigative reporting group Dossier Center, that the two were

Rosenberg: Putin's military purge echoes Prigozhin's call to act

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Remember Yevgeny Prigozhin? A year ago the leader of the Wagner mercenary group had publicly criticised military chiefs. He'd accused senior figures of incompetence and corruption, and blamed

New Russian defence minister was close to late Wagner chief Yevgeny

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Dossier Centre, a Russian media outlet, has discovered that the new Russian Minister of Defence, Andrei Belousov, oversaw the activities of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former head of the Wagner private