Oligarchs

Putin’s childhood friends in Russia are forming their own private armies of soccer hooligans along the lines of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group, a local investigative site reported. Arkady and Boris …

Putin’s childhood friends “create their own Wagner-style private armies full of football hooligans” as oligarchs prepare for a power vacuum and civil war if Russia loses in Ukraine.

BILL BROWDER: Alexei Navalny was my friend… we worked together to take on Russia’s corrupt oligarchs. Despite the obvious dangers, he continued to fight from his cell, even exposing his prison warden’s penchant for threesomes.