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At its head is Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and mercenary leader who this year has become perhaps the most conspicuous avatar of everything that is darkest about his motherland. In his fusion ...

In the same period, two military attachés of the Russian Federation were expelled from Romania: air and naval attaché Viktor Makovsky and his deputy Yevgeny Ignatiev. The Romanian Intelligence Service ...