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Sheet of paper with portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure who managed Wagner’s operations and allegedly served in Russian military intelligence, is placed at a makeshift memorial in front of the Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg, on August 26.

Prigozhin: Wagner chief among 10 confirmed dead in Russian jet crash

A man lays flowers at a makeshift memorial in honour of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Bodies and flight recorder recovered from Prigozhin crash site

This picture taken on July 4, 2017 shows Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin prior to a meeting with business leaders held by Russian and Chinese presidents at the Kremlin in Moscow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin was ‘on passenger list’ as 10 killed in jet crash

Local residents stand next to debris following thet drone attack in Moscow

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Yevgeny Prigozhin (right) with Vladimir Putin

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A member of Wagner group stands guard in a street in the city of Rostov-on-Don

Russia uprising: ‘Soon we will have new President’ says Wagner Group

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

‘Betrayal’ - Vladimir Putin reacts to Wagner Group rebellion in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago

Russian mercenary group plot to remove Vladimir Putin

A pipe band leads a giant papier mache lion conductor in the Evening News Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade, August 1980.

18 photo memories of Edinburgh in 1980

Russia threatens military response after UK sends missiles to Ukraine

Ukraine War: What is the Victory Day parade in Russia, what did Vladimir Putin say about the west?

What is Victory Day in Russia & what did Vladimir Putin say?

17 Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russian authorities freed

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

International Criminal Court issue arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

A Ukrainian soldier fires during a training exercise in the Rivne region, amid reports of a new Russian offensive (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

As Putin redoubles efforts to take Ukraine, we must not give in to war fatigue

A captured Russian tank is repaired by Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region (Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)

Boosted by US, German and Russian tanks, Ukrainian morale is high

Fireworks explode over Edinburgh Castle during the street party for Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh. Picture : Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

All signs point to a continued Russian onslaught on civilian targets in Ukraine
Although the numbers may be in dispute, there is no doubt the recent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military “provisional base” in the eastern Ukrainian city of Makivka in the occupied region of Donetsk inflicted heavy losses on the invading forces.

Messi and Alvarez for Argentina at Lusail Stadium in semi-final

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People sit in a café without power in Lviv, Ukraine. Once a safe haven for refugees, Russian attacks have plunged the city into darkness and cold (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

As winter chills hits Scotland, Ukrainians face 'unliveable' conditions

A child rests in a cot beside a window protected by sandbags in an intensive care unit for newborns at Okhmatdyt Hospital, Kyiv, yesterday (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Ukrainian refugees who returned home are being forced to leave again

People in newly liberated Kherson crowd around volunteers to receive humanitarian food (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ukrainians remain resolute in war against Putin and so must we – Steve Cardownie

Firefighters put out a fire in a port after a Russian missiles attack in Odesa, Ukraine, on Saturday. Picture: Odesa City Hall Press Office via AP

Russia claims missile attack on port of Odesa targeted military facilities

A man jogs past a cloud of smoke from a fire in the background after a missile strike on a warehouse of an industrial and trading company in Odessa on July 16, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP) (Photo by OLEKSANDR GIMANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian missiles hit Odesa port hours after grain export deal agreed

A woman walks past a shell crater in front of a damaged residential building in the town of Siversk, Donetsk region, on June 23, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. - via Getty Images

Massive bombardment' of Ukraine continues as tensions mount over invasion

Putin has spoken of his admiration of Peter the Grea and while it is not uncommon for world leaders to take inspiration from past presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens, context must always be given, writes Angus Robertson.

Putin's love for Peter the Great is a blind misjudgement - Angus Robertson

New Profile Pic app: Is Russia collecting personal data from Facebook photos?

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina. Picture: Greg Macvean

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina escapes Russia

This satellite image taken by Planet Labs PBC shows smoke rising after Ukrainian strikes destroyed buildings housing Russian positions and a helicopter on Snake Island in the Black Sea Sunday, May 8, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Russia continues barrage in southern Ukraine
Russian forces have kept up their barrage of southern Ukraine, hitting the major Black Sea port of Odesa with cruise missiles and bombarding the steelworks up the coast in Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters remained trapped underground.

The European Union’s leader has called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia in a sixth package of sanctions targeting Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

EU unveils plan to ban Russian oil imports as new sanctions proposed

Valentina Erastova, 34, has lived in Scotland since she was 16

‘It feels shameful to be Russian’, says woman hosting refugee in Edinburgh

Ukrainian refugees weep after arriving at the Siret border crossing between Romania and Ukraine on Monday (Picture: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)

As Putin launches fresh attacks, more Ukrainian refugees will be forced to flee

Korolenko Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library is seen damaged by night shelling in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Ukrainian officials say Russian forces pounded areas around Kyiv and another Ukrainian city overnight. The attacks come hours after Moscow pledged to scale back military operations in those places. (AP Photo/Vladislav Savenok)

Missile strikes continue in Chernihiv despite Russian 'withdrawal'

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday night, March 29, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Russia withdrawal pledge an attempt to 'mislead' - Zelensky

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has indicated progress in the peace talk with Russia (Photo by HANDOUT/UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER/AFP via Getty Images)

Zelensky offers hope in Russian peace talks update

Smoke rise after earlier shelling by Russian forces in Mariupol
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Residents left in shelters after Russia breaches Mariupol ceasefire

An armed man stands at the Independent Square (Maidan) in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Picture; Efrem Lukatsky

Ukraine claims forces have killed 5,840 Russian troops

Russia gigs axed: Franz Ferdinand

Ukraine crisis: Rockers Franz Ferdinand to axe Russia gigs

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) perfroming in a production of 'Chopiniana' in New Zealand. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Walk from Leith to Porty made me feel like Anna Pavlova – Susan Morrison

Students evacuate a building of the Perm university campus

Russian University shooting: 8 dead and 24 wounded at Perm State University

Cybersecurity raises concerns over WhatsApp scammers, delivery and romance fraud

California village, Falkirk.

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny waits for a court hearing in a police station in Khimki, Moscow, following his arrest (Picture: @Kira_Yarmysh via AP)

Navalny's arrest speaks volumes about Putin's regime – Angus Robertson

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Alexander Lukashenko retains an iron grip on power in Belarus (Picture: Servei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images)

Belarus election farce shows the age of dictatorship is not dead – Angus Roberts...

Fast food chain KFC is testing a method of 3D printing chicken nuggets as part of its partnership with a Russian biotech research firm (Photo: Shutterstock)

KFC is making ‘bioprinted chicken nuggets’

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Letters: Trashy state of Capital makes me hang my head in shame

City firm in Moscow deal

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