Lawfare Archive: The Wagner Group, One Year After Prigozhin with Vanda Felbab-Brown

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🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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From August 28, 2024: On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to help make sense of the recent skirmishes in northern Mali between the junta, separatist groups, Islamists, and Russian mercenaries.

They discuss what the recent ambush in Mali portends for Russian and Russian-aligned mercenaries' activities in Africa and look back at how Moscow has restructured and reframed the Wagner Group in the year since the death of its former head, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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1:50.9	Last Saturday, marked the second anniversary of the death of former Wagner Group head of Genni Progogian.
1:57.7	In the time since Progossian's death, Moscow has attempted to assert more control over the group,
2:02.6	establishing a new entity called Afrocore.
2:05.6	Progosion's true legacy, though, a vast online network of fans, veterans, and former Wagner group members has remained intact
2:13.6	and is now contributing to the rise of what Lindsay Freeman dubbed war influencers in a June
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