It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

Lukashenko previously said that he “could not imagine” that Putin was behind the apparent death of Prigozhin. “I can’t say who did it. I won’t even become a lawyer for my older brother.

It’s always a tragedy,” Putin said in a televised speech ... a deal brokered by his old friend Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus. Prigozhin seems to have honestly believed the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Kremlin and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko have dismissed claims that Vladimir Putin had any role ...

Lukashenko, both an old acquaintance of Prigozhin and close ally of Russia, said that Putin had nothing to do with the plane crash. "I know Putin: he is calculating, very calm, even tardy ...

Putin acquiesced in Lukashenko’s shadowy agreement and even met Prigozhin who was allowed to fly around the world, recently visiting his Musicians in Africa, wielding a Kalashnikov and full ...

As late as July, Lukashenko dismissed speculation that Putin would have Prigozhin killed. “If you think Putin is so malicious and vindictive that he will ‘wipe him out’ tomorrow,” he told ...

After an apparent and still ambiguous deal brokered by Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko, Prigozhin announced he and his troops would turn back. Last week the Kremlin revealed that Putin ...

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Lukashenko made candid comments about Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin while meeting with national and foreign media on July 6. Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow on May 25 ...

Yevgeny Prigozhin was not in Belarus but still in Russia, Mr Lukashenko said, though if anyone thought Mr Putin was so "vindictive and malicious" he might go ahead and "whack him somewhere ...