A fan of Vladimir Putin and fast cars, Robert Fico should return as prime minister of Slovakia following parliamentary elections on Saturday. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the career of a politician who was ousted from power five years ago after a journalist was murdered for revealing government corruption, and who used populism and disinformation to rise again.

The ex-president believes the Russian leader’s remarks prove that he is “right” about the conflict in Ukraine

The most critical internal threat Putin has faced in years is gone. His rival and former ally’s reported death likely means the end for the Wagner Group but ushers in a new phase of fear and anxiety in Russia

Theirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia's state security services mingled with the criminal underworld.

While Putin's spokesperson denied that he'd killed Prigozhin, a former Kremlin official told Insider that the rebellion made his death "inevitable."

Paramilitary group has an estimated 5,000 men and lucrative businesses across at least four African nations.

The very public death of Putin henchman Yevgeny Prigozhin highlights the evolution of Russia into a mafia state held together by violence and incapable of global leadership.

The Kremlin also said it was impossible to say whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend the funeral of Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has spoken for the first time about the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash.

Kiev should sue for peace before it loses the remnants of its sovereignty, the leader of Belarus said in an interview

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to buy time while he works out how to deal with Yevgeny Prighozin, says the director of the CIA.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is supposedly headed to Belarus, but Putin’s troubles aren’t over.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin triggered a crisis in Russia on Saturday with an armed rebellion headed to Moscow. But by the following day, the 62-year-old mercenary leader appeared to have played all of his cards and now faces a negotiated exile in Belarus along with some of his troops.  

Founder of Wagner paramilitary group says he is heading for Moscow to oust the army’s leadership

 

Ramzan Kadyrov has denounced Evgeny Prigozhin as a traitor, while vowing to do his best to restore order

President intervenes after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s paramilitary group seizes city of Rostov in most serious challenge to Putin since he took power

Russia has been engulfed by chaos after the head of the nation’s Wagner mercenary group was accused of inciting mutiny.

The Russian president has made a trip to Kherson Region and the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Kremlin says

Russia’s investigative committee says the ICC prosecutor and judges acted “illegally”

The ICC issued the warrant for Putin's arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.