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Any attempt to cause internal turmoil in Russia doomed to fail: Putin afte
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The rebellion by armed mercenaries on Saturday lasted less than 24 hours.
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G7 to work closely following Russia uprising: Japanese PM Kishida
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida told reporters, "We would like to respond to the situation by closely working with the G7."
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Wagner group armed mutiny: Know all that transpired in this standoff again
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
In a major turn of events in the ongoing rebellion against Russia by the Wagner group, a criminal case was opened against the Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday, despite earlier claims by Kremlin that the charges against the group will be dropped.
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March was to not to overthrow power in Russia: Wagner chief
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Explaining his decision to turn around his march on Moscow, Prigozhin said he wanted to avoid Russian bloodshed.
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Situation in Russia, position of President Putin stable: Russian president
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Russia's Special Presidential Representative for International Cultural Cooperation and former Minister of Culture, Mikhail Shvydkoy on Monday said that the situation in Russia is "stable" and the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin is also intact after the Wagner mercenary group ar
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Russian PM acknowledges country faces "challenge", praises govt members fo
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Mikhail Mishustin stated that they acted in a "coordinated manner" under Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership.
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Criminal case opened against Wagner Chief amid threat of escalation: Russi
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"Amid the seriousness of the situation and the threat of escalation of confrontation in the Russian Federation the FSB has opened a criminal case into the fact of a call for an armed rebellion on the part of Yevgeny Prigozhin," it said.
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Putin-Wagner dispute expose "real crack": Blinken
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
To a question on whether he knew Wagner will abort his plan, Blinken in an interview with Jonathan Karl for ABC's "This Week" said, "I don't know, and I'm not sure we'll fully know, or it may be something that unfolds in the coming - in the coming days and weeks. We simply don't have a cl
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Wagner mercenaries leaves Russia's Lipetsk region
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"Units of PMC "Wagner," which stopped the day before in the Lipetsk region, left the territory of the region," it said on Telegram.
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Wagner mercenary chief to move to Belarus under deal brokered by Lukashenk
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has decided to stop his march to Moscow after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, reported Al Jazeera on Saturday.
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"President Putin is deeply mistaken, we are patriots": Wagner group head
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"Regarding the betrayal of the motherland, the president is deeply mistaken," Yevgeny Prigozhin said.
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"Armed mutiny" by Wagner group is "stab in back of our country," says Russ
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Putin's statement comes after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the alleged head of the Wagner mercenary group, in a series of recordings released on social media on Saturday, announced that his troops had taken control of military facilities in two Russian cities.
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