Investigators continued to sift through wreckage of a private jet belonging to the Wagner group early on August 24 after it crashed en route to St. Petersburg from Moscow, leaving no survivors among a passenger list believed to include the leader of the private mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary leader whose brazen rebellion posed the biggest challenge to Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power, is believed to have died in plane crash north of Moscow on August 23.
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Almaty police detained, without explanation, two activists of the unregistered opposition Democratic Party who came to a meeting with city Mayor Erbolat Dosaev on August 24.
A court in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, on August 24 began the trial of noted activist Ramila Saitova, who was arrested in May over her online posts against Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.