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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

What future awaits Russia’s Wagner army and its boss, Prigozhin?

Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin agreed to leave Russia and relocate to Belarus [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Back in 2013, the year after Vladimir Putin’s return to presidency and the year before Moscow annexed Crimea, Aleksandra Garmazhapova got an undercover job.

The investigative reporter briefly worked as an “online operator” typing up hundreds of pro-Kremlin comments from a snow-white office outside St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city and Putin’s hometown.

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