Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was once a hot-dog vendor and a long time associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, now not only commands thousands of mercenaries who played a key role in the Ukraine invasion, but has also called an open rebellion against the country’s military. Prigozhin is currently the chief of Kremlin-allied Wagner Group, who depicts himself as a mercenary …
Russian president Vladimir Putin's ally who leads Chechnya- Ramzan Kadyrov- said that he plans to set up his own private military company in the style of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group of mercenaries one day. Ramzan Kadyrov said Wagner, which has been fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, has achieved "impressive results" and that private military companies were a necessity, as …
Police arrest opposition figure Yevgeny Roizman, 59 who served as mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013-2018. The former mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city has been arrested on charges of undermining the country’s military, part of a crackdown on critics of Moscow’s military action in Ukraine. “The suspect was detained in Yekaterinburg and will be taken to Moscow for investigation,” the Moscow …
