Russian mercenaries are chasing one of the world’s most notorious fugitives: the warlord Joseph Kony, who abducted tens of thousands of children from across central Africa, brutalizing and brainwashing them as child soldiers and sex slaves in a decadeslong maelstrom of terror. Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a …
Read More »Putin Destroys a Rival, but 'Killing Prigozhin Is Going to Set Off Greater Paranoia and Repression'
It’s hard to imagine anyone was particularly surprised at the sudden demise on Wednesday of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the ultranationalist entrepreneur who founded the mercenary Wagner Group. An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin ever since the former KGB agent made the transition to local politics in post-Soviet-collapse Saint Petersburg in …
Read More »One of Putin's Inner Circle Has Criticized the Kremlin's Ukraine Strategy — And He's Not Alone
Last week, the leader of the infamous Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, went on an unhinged public rant criticizing Russia’s war effort, shocking Kremlin watchers and revealing how theconflict is sowing division in Putin’s ranks. On May 5, Prigozhin unleashed a torrent of invective against Russian leadership targeting the current …
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