A former convict-turned-restaurateur, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s humble origins gave way to an astonishing, if unlikely, ascent.

John Lechner’s book offers new reporting about the mercenary Wagner Group and its former leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin ...

TASS/. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), whose plane crashed last evening, had returned from Africa only yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Instead, Russian activity in Africa has tended to occur in an unsystematic fashion, through structures like Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group. These structures had freedom to make proactive ...

Wagner has become an important actor in Africa since 2019, when Prigozhin stepped up its operations in Libya by aiding eastern commander Khalifa Haftar secure his foothold and backing him in an ...

Enterprise off the news began even before Prigozhin’s death was confirmed. We quickly converted well-prepared obits into profiles, and for days commissioned widely used new stories not only from our ...

Prigozhin posted a video address on Monday which he suggested was made in Africa. He turned up at a Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg in July. Unconfirmed Russian media reports said that ...

For a brief moment last month, Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared poised to become one of the most important, powerful people on Earth. After months of dispeptic saber-rattling toward the Kremlin over ...

Russia has also used the Wagner Group to further its interests in Africa. A day before his apparent death, a seemingly pre-recorded Telegram post appeared to show Prigozhin, possibly in Africa ...

with the mercenary leader meeting with Putin in person just days after the failed mutiny and appearing weeks later at a critical summit with African leaders. Prigozhin — once nicknamed "Putin's ...