Donald Trump, Jr. American businessman who was an executive vice president in the Trump Organization, his family’s global real-estate company. He was also active in politics, and his father, Donald Trump, Sr., served as the 45th president of the United States (2017–21). Trump Jr. was the eldest
Yevgeny Prigozhin Russian oligarch, best known as the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit. Prigozhin grew up in difficult neighborhoods of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1981 a Soviet court found the 20-year-old Prigozhin guilty of having been involved in drunkenness, fraud,
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Rastafari, religious and political movement, begun in Jamaica in the 1930s and adopted by many groups around the globe, that combines Protestant Christianity, mysticism, and a pan-African political consciousness. Learn more about the Rastafari movement in this article.