PORTRAIT – Long in the shadows, craftsman of the base works of the Kremlin, ex-convict, sulphurous business brewer and boss of the mercenaries of the “Wagner” group, Evguéni Prigogine recently threw off the mask.
Correspondent in Moscow
We never heard from him and we only had a few rare photographs of him, the most famous showing him as a butler presenting the menu to a “customer” who was none other than Vladimir Poutine. The two men had known each other in the 1990s when the first had opened a luxury restaurant in Saint Petersburg, where the future Russian president had just passed from the secret services to the town hall of the city.
Long in the shadows, craftsman of the dirty works of the Kremlin, ex-convict – he served nine years in prison for various offenses at the time of the USSR -, sulphurous business brewer and boss of the mercenaries of the “Wagner” group, Yevgeny Prigogine recently threw off the mask. Shocking videos, hyperactivity on Telegram, “bazooka” remarks on the “special military operation” in Ukrainenot a week without the one who earned the nickname “poutine cookdoes not give voice. As if the war that has been raging for eight months was playing…
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