Former president George W. Bush was recently surprised to realize he was served by Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin during a dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin years ago. Bush, ...

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Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny and subsequent survival presented the most serious challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin's two decades of iron rule. So while ...

In May 2023, 15 months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Yevgeniy Prigozhin had had enough. The founder of the Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit often utilized by President Vladimir ...

Mr. Schmemann, a member of the editorial board, was The Times’s Moscow bureau chief in the 1980s and ’90s and is the author of “Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village.” Whatever ...