Russian Wagner mercenaries' African exploits immortalized on big screen
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It had all the hallmarks of a Hollywood premiere: Excited crowds, a giant screen, even a red carpet.
But the high-octane, big budget film making its debut at the Barthélemy Boganda stadium in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), recently wasn't the latest episode in a star-studded action movie franchise. Instead, the more than 10,000 people packing the stadium's concrete seats had come to see a lavish piece of Russian propaganda: "Tourist," a movie glorifying the mission of so-called "military instructors" in CAR, dubbed into Songo, a local language.
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