Conspiracy theories swirl around reported death of Yevgeny Prigozhin

Conspiracy theories swirled Thursday surrounding the purported death of Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants in a plane crash the day before. Prigozhin, whose private military group Wagner had staged a short-lived armed rebellion against the Kremlin earlier this summer, was reported…

There is speculation that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of a Russian mercenary group, died in a mysterious plane crash on August 23 in Russia.

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The message from Moscow reached Paul Manafort at a crucial moment in the U.S. presidential race, just as he was about to secure the official Republican nomination for his client, Donald Trump. Manafort’s overture had been received, the July 2016 message informed him. And Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Russian President Vladimir…

Russian President Vladimir Putin commented publicly on the death of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday. He said Prigozhin was a ‘talented businessman’ who made ‘serious mistakes in his life.’ Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images

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The presumed death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is raising questions about the future of the influential mercenary group that has played a key role in the Russia-Ukraine war. Prigozhin is believed to have died on Wednesday in a plane crash along with his second-in-command Dmitry Utkin. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] …

In his first comments addressing the plane crash that reportedly killed Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others, Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences. The Russian president went on to describe Prigozhin as a “talented businessman”, who he has known since the 1990s. He said Russia will look into what investigators say regarding…

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A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office.The…

Reading Putin’s mind: “It is your own Cook’s Corner, and your own FBI bikers gang who stole the election 2016 from Hillary and handed it to Trump, for just $1.3M (A lot of bang for the buck, you can’t beat it!): Kallstrom, McGonigal, and others of the #FBI heroes. My cook is out now, and he was not good anyway; more gas than substance, the usual…

Russian oligarch (1961–2023) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Viktorovich and the family name is Prigozhin. This article is about a person who has been presumed dead. Some information, such as that pertaining to the circumstances of the person’s presumed death and surrounding events, may change rapidly…

After adamantly denying interfering in the 2016 U.S. election that brought Donald Trump to power, a Kremlin insider has admitted that suspected Russian interference in American elections was real. “We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, a chief ally and favorite chef of Vladimir Putin said on Russian…

Former President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia, igniting a new chapter in ongoing legal proceedings. Trump’s surrender comes as nine of his co-defendants have turned themselves in this week, including his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani. CBS News’ Nikole Killion reports from Georgia.

“Я слышал взрыв или хлопок. Крыло отлетело в одну сторону, а фюзеляж на одном крыле стал падать”. Гибель главы ЧВК “Вагнер” Евгения Пригожина до сих пор официально не подтверждена. О том, что Пригожин погиб, пишут связанные с ЧВК телеграм-каналы.