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  Revealed: UN Sudan expert's links to Russian oligarch Prigozhin

  

  theguardian.com

  Exclusive: documents show links between academic and oligarch placed under US sanctionsLeaked documents show links between an academic serving on a United Nations expert panel on Sudan, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch under US sanctions who has led Russia’s recent push into Africa.According to the US, Prigozhin runs the Wagner group, which has sent mercenaries to countries including Sudan, Libya and the Central African Republic (CAR), and is also behind a notorious internet troll factory that supported Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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  Russia rules out inquiry into Alexei Navalny ‘poisoning’

  

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  How Two Russians Got Caught Up in Libya’s War, Now an Action Movie

  

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  The Russians, who said they were doing sociology research, were jailed on charges of political meddling....

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  'Putin's chef' threatens to sue US over charges of 2016 election meddling

  

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  Charges filed by Robert Mueller against Yevgeny Prigozhin were abruptly dropped a month before trialA businessmen...

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