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The roof-capped cross standing on Evgeny Prigozhin’s stone bears a stark resemblance to those found in Old Believer cemeteries, golubets, Olga Maltseva/AFP

From Nordic symbols to sledgehammer executions: Inside the Wagner Group’s neo‑pagan rituals

Denys Brylov, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

A scholar in religious studies delves into the peculiar world of Rodnovery, a Russian neo-pagan movement that believes in Slavs’ civilising mission. Many in Wagner side with it.

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