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Review: 'The Wagner Group' – Russia’s guns for hire

Review: 'The Wagner Group' – Russia’s guns for hire
A screen grab of Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking after his fighters surrounded the headquarters of Russia’s southern military district in Rostov-on-Don on June 24 last year. (Image: Wagner/Anadolu Agency via Getty)
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By Arthur HermanOn Aug 23, 2023, a private jet took off from a Moscow airport. It had been in the air for barely 15 minutes when people in the village of Kuzhenkino heard an ear-shattering boom. They looked up to see a trail of smoke and hear the whine of failing engines. Pieces of the plane fell into the fields north of the village, along with what remained of its 10 passengers, including the most sinister figure in Russian politics after President Vladimir Putin: Yevgeny Prigozhin.In less than a decade, Prigozhin had risen from conv...

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