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A Plane Crash Believed to Have Killed Mercenary Chief Prigozhin is Seen as the Kremlin’s Revenge
Associated Press
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private Wagner military company were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented President Vladimir Putin’s authority.
More from WPR: The Wagner Mutiny Was a Preview of Russia’s Post-Putin Civil War
The BRICS Group Announces New Members, Expanding Its Reach
By Lynsey Chutel | The New York Times
The group said that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia had been invited to join, and that their membership would begin in January.
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