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...Additional reporting by David Pilling in London, Andres Schipani in N’Djamena, and Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg...
...Analysts say the Central African Republic probably lost its Agoa status because of its ties to the Wagner paramilitary group, designated a transnational criminal organisation by the US treasury and accused...
...It will also be the first significant international meeting in Russia since the June revolt by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner military group that shook the Kremlin....
...Although many had concluded that Wagner was a “pernicious force” on the continent, they were conscious of Russia’s prowess as a wheat exporter....
...Pro-Wagner Telegram channels reported that just a few dozen people attended the burial — with no Wagner fighters in attendance....
...Analysts have questioned whether Putin would want to leave Russia on a long journey to South Africa in the wake of the Wagner mutiny and with the war in Ukraine raging....
...Conventional Russian ties to the continent have also been eclipsed in the public eye by Moscow’s use of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group as a praetorian guard for some of Africa’s most unstable regimes,...
...During Joseph Stalin’s ascendancy after Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin kept a sharp eye on those who expressed concerns about him....
...We probably should not go so far as to term this bond the Wagner Group avant la lettre of sovereign lending. It was always clear that the money was coming from the Russian state....
...Joseph Cotterill reports on the group’s meeting from Johannesburg. 5....
...Putin expanded the legislation this month, making it illegal to “discredit” informal groups of fighters including the Wagner private militia, a group accused of war crimes....
...Moldova’s president has claimed Russia’s Wagner paramilitaries were behind a thwarted coup attempt that aimed to depose her as head of state as part of a campaign to destabilise the country....
...First, it could provide an excuse for an even harder crackdown on Putin’s domestic critics, in much the way that the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934 paved the way for Joseph Stalin’s terror....
...A good, succinct analysis appeared in this Twitter thread from Joseph Torigian of the American University in Washington....
...Instead, Russia has tended to play the role of “disrupter”, said Joseph Siegle, at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington....
...British intelligence has said that members of the Wagner Group, founded by close Putin ally Evgeny Prigozhin, were leading the Russian charge in Bakhmut....
...Building on relationships from the past few years, Grange Park Opera is offering three big draws — tenor Joseph Calleja in Ponchielli’s rarely staged La Gioconda, Simon Keenlyside as Iago in Verdi’s Otello...
...One of her Croatian companies owns “prime oceanfront real estate on a Croatian island that includes a villa built by the 19th century Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I”, according to the US....
...But you negotiated the victory with the Joseph Kabila, the president before you. You negotiated an agreement. I know that you disagree with that statement, with this document....
...While Mozambique first reportedly turned to Russia’s Wagner Group, whose approximately 100 soldiers were quickly defeated by insurgents, it has now looked not just to DAG but to other companies for equipment...
...Interestingly, Wagner wrote this part of the Nibelungen last, although it is performed first....
...Russia’s Wagner Group, a paramilitary company, entered Cabo Delgado last year but reportedly suffered heavy losses. South African replacements recently arrived....
...The van, now topped by a Joseph Beuys bunny, is driven by Wagner’s Venus, dressed as a member of Pussy Riot; with her are Oskar from Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, the black drag queen Le Gateau Chocolat,...
...I have moved from the old-school 8th to the studenty 3rd, then the 6th, which is very vibrant, with a profusion of art nouveau architecture, a train station designed by Otto Wagner, and the Naschmarkt, which...
...But the title “Hojotoho”, which opera lovers will recognise as Brünnhilde’s battle cry in Wagner’s Die Walküre, points towards another mythology altogether....
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