Wagner
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Arts
How Did Wagner Want His ‘Ring’ Cycle to Sound?
With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic.
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Magazine
Yoga and Energy Healing in a Former Hudson Valley Mansion
Plus: winter balms, minimalist leather bags — and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Arts
18 Years Later, Twitter — Now X — Has Yet to Grow Up
Two new books about the platform chronicle its leadership under first Jack Dorsey and now Elon Musk, portraying a site reeling from user disaffection and gross mismanagement.
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World
Battle for Influence Rages in Heart of Wagner’s Operations in Africa
In palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural center in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops. But Mr. Prigozhin’s death in ...
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Wagner Group May Have Lost ‘Mythical Appeal’ in Africa
The presumed death of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, could have profound consequences for African client states and warlords who, in the span of a few years, helped turn a mercenary enterprise into one of Russia’s ...
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Britain’s Spy Master Says Putin Cut Deal With Wagner Mercenary Chief
The head of Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6, said on Wednesday that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had “cut a deal” with Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, during Mr. Prigozhin’s failed rebellion last month ...
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A large Wagner convoy arrives at a camp in Belarus.
A large convoy of vehicles carrying Wagner mercenary troops arrived at a military field camp in Belarus on Monday morning, in what is the private company’s biggest — and most public — showing since its failed rebellion in Russia last month. Videos ...
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World
Satellite Images of Belarusian Base Suggest Wagner’s Possible Arrival
More than a dozen vehicles have arrived at a rapidly built military field camp in Belarus, and video from Russia showed a convoy flying Wagner flags on the move.
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World
Wagner Founder Rebuffs Order Over Fighter Contracts With Russian Military
The leader of Russia’s Wagner private military company said Sunday that his group would not comply with an order that would require it to sign a formal contract with Russia’s defense ministry by July 1. The blunt refusal to comply with the order ...
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World
Bakhmut has exposed an ugly, personal feud between the Russian Defense Ministry and ‘Putin’s chef.’
For nearly a year, Russia has waged a vicious battle to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, seeking a gainafter months of embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield. Although the city has been essentially razed, seizing it and ending the longest ...
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