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...“Guys, we’re wishing you a Happy New Year, from Portovaya LNG,” one says, naming a Gazprom compressor station in the north-western town of Vyborg. “Come back home soon, healthy and alive.”...
...However, Wagner, the German foreign ministry spokesman, said Graf Lambsdorff had not been summoned and the meeting in Moscow was long scheduled. Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
...“They’re looking at a guy at 59 [saying]: ‘Oh, this guy, we don’t want to hire him because he’s gonna retire soon,’” he said....
...Russia’s main effort is focused around the mining city of Chasiv Yar, which sits atop a hill just 15km west of Bakhmut, the city destroyed and occupied by Russian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries nearly a...
...Based on reporting by Roman Olearchyk, Christopher Miller, Ben Hall, Max Seddon, John Paul Rathbone, John Reed, Guy Chazan, Henry Foy, Mehul Srivastava, Polina Ivanova and Tim Judah....
...Many of the 35 men present “nodded their heads when I said that”, Putin said, “but [Wagner leader Yevgeny] Prigozhin, who was sat in front of them and didn’t see that, heard me out and said: ‘No, the guys...
...Many of the 35 men present “nodded their heads, when I said that,” Putin said, “but Prigozhin, who was sat in front of them and didn’t see that, heard me out and said: ‘No, the guys don’t agree with that...
...But, guys, it is 2024. It’s time to end the femicide. ★★★★☆ To March 8, semperoper.de...
...Wagner also said the German foreign ministry had as yet not received an official complaint from the Israeli government....
...Firstly, a lot of these guys, thousands of these guys, they participated in an armed uprising....
...“It’s real tough guy stuff,” the person said. “It’s like when you go into the prison cell for the first time and punch the biggest guy you can find in the face to show nobody can mess with you.”...
...As the Wagner fighters left, shawarmas in hand from a nearby stand, one “young guy had a rapturous, impudent look....
...Many of the 35 men present “nodded their heads, when I said that,” Putin added, “but Prigozhin, who was sat in front of them and didn’t see that, heard me out and said: ‘No, the guys don’t agree with that...
...The Russian leader complained about treachery, but he also seemed prepared to cut a deal with Prigozhin and Wagner. Who knows what will happen next?...
...Our shows divide the world not into good guys and bad guys, but bad guys and very bad guys — and those aren’t necessarily traffickers, but dirty cops and politicians and lawyers who betray public trust....
...“These guys are from Wagner PMC and they were killed today,” Prigozhin said, pointing a torch at the rows of bodies and blaming Shoigu and Gerasimov for killing his fighters by failing to deliver weapons...
...He and fellow IU alumnus Todd Wagner developed the idea to stream audio from Hoosiers basketball games over the internet....
...These guys are dying so you can get fat in your wood-panelled offices.” As his rhetoric escalated, so did his conflict with the army. Prigozhin accused the military of shooting at Wagner soldiers....
...But Miles, let’s look at the kind of business side of it, because as Max has said, this guy starts out as literally as a hot dog seller, then through building up Wagner, as you have illustrated in the FT...
...These guys are dying so you can get fat in your wood-panelled offices.” The reception Wagner’s men got in Rostov shows the popularity of Prigozhin’s tirades against the army leadership....
...Remember, this is the guy that called high interest rates “the mother and father of all evil”. That is a real thing that he said....
...Others have joined more independent fighting forces such as the Wagner paramilitary group....
...On the night the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, she stayed at home reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, as the FT’s Guy Chazan wrote in a wonderful 2017 profile....
...“We should be four to eight guys doing reconnaissance and doing operations behind enemy lines. But we are being told, ‘you have to fight like everyone else now’,” he said....
...Date to be announced; further information here soon Guy Fawkes Night The annual marking of the foiled plan to blow up Parliament in 1605....
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