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☆ Employees of a Moscow company were handed weapons as Wagner fighters approached the capital, report says
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Moscow company handed employees weapons during the Wagner rebellion, a report said. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyA Moscow company handed employees weapons as fighters from the Wagner private army approached the Russian capital on Saturday, The Moscow Times reported. The outlet said that rich Muscovites fled the city on private planes, while other armed themselves to fight, as soldiers bore down on the capital seeking to oust Russian military leaders. After a televised address by Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he branded the mutineers traitors and vowed to defeat them, one state-owned company handed out guns to employees, the outlet reported. Russian military and security services put up hasty barriers and dug up roads as they prepared to defend the capital from the fighters on Saturday.
Persons: Wagner, —, Muscovites, Vladimir Putin, Sergey Sobyanin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Fighters, Moscow, Kremlin, Service, Moscow Times, Moscow's, Reuters Locations: Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Belarus
☆ Russian ruble extends freefall as US weighs new weapon for Ukraine amid Putin regime's disarray
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Russian ruble extended its slide, dipping to a 87.75-per-dollar level on Thursday. The mutiny may lead the US to consider supplying Ukraine with a new long-range missile. Sign up for our newsletter to get the inside scoop on what traders are talking about — delivered daily to your inbox. The US is now considering arming Ukraine with the Army Tactical Missile System after previously opposing it, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The ATACMS long-range missile would provide Kyiv with the ability to strike Russian targets farther beyond the frontlines, making on-the-ground support more challenging.
Persons: Wagner, —, Andrei Belousov, Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin Organizations: Service, Moscow Saturday, Army Tactical Missile System, Wall Street, Russia Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Russian
☆ How the 'masculine' talks that averted a siege on Moscow went down, according to Putin's negotiator
  + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Sam Fellman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Thousands of Wagner fighters led by Prigozhin threatened to advance on Moscow Saturday. That's when Russian leader Vladimir Putin purportedly came calling. The number of swear words was ten times higher than that of normal words. Certainly, he said he was sorry for using swear words." Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 9, 2021.
Persons: Lukashenko, Wagner, Prigozhin, —, Alexander Lukashenko, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin's, Putin, wasn't, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov, SHAMIL ZHUMATOV, Prigozhin's Organizations: Moscow, Service, Privacy, Wagner Group, Belarusian, Kremlin, Getty, Lukashenko's Locations: Belarus, Moscow, Independence, Minsk, Russia, Belarusian, Ukraine, Russian, Rostov
☆ Russian security services threatened the families of Wagner forces to get them to back down, report says
  + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russian security services threatened the families of Wagner mutineers, The Telegraph reported. Wagner forces seized control of a city in Russia and were bearing down on Moscow. Wagner military column passes Russian city of Voronezh. It said that Wagner fighters who didn't take part in the mutiny would be absorbed into the Russian military. Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian security services, told BBC News on Saturday that though Prigozhin's forces did not appear strong enough to topple Putin, they exposed serious limits to his power.
Persons: Wagner mutineers, Wagner, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, Don, Putin, Mark Galeotti Organizations: Telegraph, Kremlin, Service, Moscow, Reuters Prigozhin, Saturday, EU, US, BBC News Locations: Russia, Moscow, Russian, Rostov, Voronezh, Ukraine, Kremlin, Belarus
☆ Wagner’s Mutiny Raises Prospect of Further Plotting Against Putin
  + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
After Wagner Group halted its advance on Moscow Saturday, the question now is how much the abortive revolt in Russia weakened President Vladimir Putin and his standing among elites. During more than two decades in power, Putin assembled a security apparatus so vast that an organized conspiracy appeared impossible. The success of Wagner’s one-day mutiny raises the prospect of further plotting in the nuclear-armed power and more instability.
Persons: Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: Wagner Group, Moscow Locations: Russia
☆ Putin's presidential plane was spotted leaving Moscow amid Wagner's uprising
  + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane left Moscow Saturday morning, according to flight data. Wagner mercenaries appear to be headed for Moscow in what some are calling an attempted coup. Putin's presidential plane left at 14:16 Moscow time, according to FlightRadar data retrieved by NEXTA. While it's not clear where the plane was headed, it disappeared from tracking systems near Tver, a major city north of Moscow. On Friday, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against Russia's military leadership, accusing Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering an air strike on Wagner troops in Ukraine.
Persons: Vladimir Putin's, Dmitry Peskov, Putin, Wagner, —, it's, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Sergei Shoigu, Prigozhin Organizations: Service, NEXTA, Independent, Russian, Russia's Ministry of Defense Locations: Moscow, St, Petersburg, Tver, Ukraine, Prigozhin
☆ An Ikea copycat just opened its doors in Moscow — and some customers are not impressed
  + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Swed House, an Ikea copycat, opened its first store in Moscow Saturday, Reuters reported. However, it seems some customers who went along after Swed House opened its doors in Moscow on Saturday were less than impressed with the attempt to mimic the Swedish chain. "Nobody prohibited us from doing this … our own Swed House goods are in big demand as well," he said. Customers at the new Swed House store in Moscow. Other customers told Reuters the store was too small compared with an Ikea outlet.
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