The private paramilitary organization Wagner Group has been fighting alongside the Russian Army in Ukraine as a parallel armed force for the past year and a half. But it — and its notorious owner Yevgeny Prigozhin — made global headlines last month when it staged, and then aborted, a quasi-coup against Russian military leadership. Since then, Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to sideline Prigozhin and absorb the Wagner fighters under his country’s full military control. But Wagner’s vast corporate empire inside Russia makes that a challenging task, which was the focus of a recent Wall Street Journal data investigation.
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