CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “vertical of power” – the way in which the entire structure of Russian political power rests on one man – has undergone…
Read more The message behind Putin’s Wagner meeting | CNNCNN — Cuba says it has uncovered a human trafficking network operating from Russia that is recruiting Cubans to fight for their longstanding ally in Moscow’s war in…
Read more Cuba says ‘human trafficking network’ is sending its nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine | CNNCNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first public comments Thursday on the plane crash believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, saying the Wagner leader had made…
Read more Putin sends condolences to Wagner chief Prigozhin’s family after crash | CNNCNN — A top Russian general who went missing after the mercenary group Wagner’s insurrection in June has been fired from his role as head of the country’s…
Read more Top Russian general who vanished after Wagner rebellion fired as head of aerospace forces | CNNCNN — Late last week, imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was handed a harsh judgment: After a court hit him with a new 19-year sentence in a…
Read more Where in the world is Wagner warlord Prigozhin? At large and in charge, apparently | CNNCNN — General Salifou Mody, one of the Niger officers who seized power in a military coup last week, visited Mali on Wednesday, according to the Mali presidency,…
Read more A Niger coup leader meets with Wagner-allied junta in Mali | CNNCNN — Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company, was spotted inside Russia on Thursday for the first time since he led an armed rebellion against…
Read more Wagner chief Prigozhin seen back in Russia for first time since rebellion | CNNHong Kong CNN — Vladimir Putin projected an image of strength in front of a virtual gathering of Moscow-friendly leaders on Tuesday, in what was the Russian leader’s…
Read more Putin reassures pro-Russian world leaders his grip on power remains strong | CNNCNN — At least 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed fighting in Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader said the private military company had suffered…
Read more 21,000 Wagner mercenaries killed in Ukraine and ‘world wants to kill’ Putin, Zelensky says | CNNCNN — One is known as “General Armageddon,” the other as “Putin’s chef.” Both have a checkered past and a reputation for brutality. One launched the insurrection, the…
Read more After the short-lived insurrection, questions swirl over top Russian commander and Prigozhin | CNNCNN — Russia’s short-lived insurrection has handed Joe Biden the most perilous version yet of a dilemma that has confounded the last five US presidents: how to handle…
Read more Biden is turning the screw on Putin even as US denies role in Russia’s insurrection | CNN PoliticsKyiv CNN — Seismic shifts in Moscow must surely spell similar earthquakes along the front lines in Ukraine. But as of Monday, that’s yet to happen. Ukraine’s forces…
Read more Russia is wracked by mutiny and mistakes. Ukraine will seek to take advantage | CNNCNN — In the end, the uprising was short-lived. But for a brief and chaotic 36 hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power appeared to be under…
Read more Russia pulls back from brink of crisis after deal reached to end Wagner insurrection | CNNCNN — Within a remarkable day and a half, Russia faced the very real threat of an armed insurrection, with President Vladimir Putin vowing to punish Wagner fighters…
Read more Moscow has stepped back from civil war with Wagner. But the danger’s not over, experts warn | CNNCNN — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, has agreed to leave Russia for Belarus, the Kremlin said Saturday, in a deal that ends an…
Read more Wagner chief to leave Russia for Belarus in deal that ends armed insurrection | CNNCNN — This just does not happen in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Especially in public. The Russian president is facing the most serious threat to his hold on power…
Read more Putin is at risk of losing his iron grip on power. The next 24 hours are critical | CNNCNN — Yevgeny Prigozhin is the founder and bombastic leader of Russia’s private military group Wagner. His organization is now in the midst of an apparent insurrection, after…
Read more Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief turned rebel? | CNNCNN — Vladimir Putin is facing the greatest threat to his authority in two decades after the head of the Wagner paramilitary group launched an apparent insurrection, claimed…
Read more Putin vows to punish ‘armed uprising’ by Wagner militia as Russia is plunged into crisis | CNNCNN — One of Sudan’s two warring factions has declared a 72-hour truce after nearly a week of fierce fighting, which has left more than 330 people dead…
Read more Sudan’s paramilitary RSF announces 72-hour ceasefire ahead of Muslim holiday | CNNCNN — As fighting between warring factions has engulfed Sudan in recent days, hospitals treating people wounded in clashes have themselves become the targets for attacks, dealing the…
Read more ‘We left behind children in incubators:’ Witnesses describe hospital shelled in Sudan’s clashes | CNN
