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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (Russian: Евгений Викторович Пригожин, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈɡoʐɨn]; 1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch.
Jun 22, 2024 · FILE - Yevgeny Prigozhin, right, head of the Wagner private military contractor, poses for a photo with a civilian in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. Prigozhin’s mercenary army had briefly seized a military headquarters in the city and started marching toward Moscow to oust the Defense Ministry’s leaders, but then called it off.
Jun 23, 2024 · Yevgeny Prigozhin – the late leader of the paramilitary force – crossed from Ukraine on 23 June 2023 and seized the southern city of Rostov after months of increasing tensions with military ...
Aug 23, 2023 · The founder of the Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died when his plane fell out of the sky, was once close enough to Vladimir Putin to be called his “personal chef”...
Jun 25, 2023 · Yevgeny Prigozhin hails from St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's home city. He received his first criminal conviction in 1979, aged just 18, and got a suspended two-and-a-half year...
Jun 25, 2024 · Yevgeny Prigozhin (born June 1, 1961, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died August 23, 2023, near Kuzhenkino, Russia) was a Russian oligarch, best known as the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit.
Aug 25, 2023 · Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the outspoken tycoon who built a private paramilitary force that fought on Russia’s behalf in Ukraine and Africa but whose harsh judgment of its army leadership led him to...
Aug 24, 2023 · Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who staged a brief mutiny in June, was among 10 people who died when a private plane crashed outside Moscow on...
Jun 24, 2023 · Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, halted his march on Moscow and withdrew his forces from a southern Russia military hub.
Aug 23, 2023 · The US has rejected suggestions that a surface-to-air missile brought down a plane presumed to have been carrying Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday. Pentagon officials also said...
