August 25, 2023

Future of Wagner Group Uncertain

Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin posed the greatest threat to Vladimir Putin’s reign in decades, but the Kremlin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have both denied that Putin played any hand in the assumed death of Prigozhin. Videos of Prigozhin’s private plane crashing into the ground north-west of Moscow on Wednesday have prompted western officials to conclude […]

August 24, 2023

Prigozhin’s Death: Assassination, Mutiny, or Accident?

Despite the Kremlin’s silence on the warlord’s presumed death in an aircraft crash, Wagner warriors commemorated their founder Yevgeny Prigozhin with a makeshift memorial in St. Petersburg on Thursday. A private jet carrying Prigozhin and many others crashed on Wednesday, killing everyone on board; his supporters have lamented his death and accused “traitors” of killing […]