All that is known about Prigozy life: From Putin's “to unscrupulous mercenaries

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner é, who has become a key figure in Russia's war in Ukraine, prior to the launch of a rebellion that has resulted from sending mercenaries to the door of Moscow, is believed to have died as a result of a plane crash in the north of the Russian capital.

In the private plane, Wagner's ownership, there were 10 people, when he crashed on August 23rd, the Russian Ministry for Emergency Affairs said. Prigozy's name was on the list of people who were on the plane.

Flight surveyer Flightrader24 has shown a Brazilian plane Embraer 600, registered on behalf of Wagner, fleeing radars on the evening of August 23rd.

Officials have not commented on any reason for plane crash.

Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport has said they have launched investigations into the incident.

Former convicted and head of a restaurant chain in St Petersburg, Pgozhin has gained fame in the West for creating “Russian fake news magazine”, which has been charged with trying to manipulate American voters in the 2016 presidential election.

However, his private company Wagner has played an even greater role in Russia's foreign and domestic policy, gaining global attention.

Pigozin has sent his mercenaries to fight on behalf of the Kremlin in Syria, Libya and Ukraine.

After the Kremlin began a major war in Ukraine, in February 2022, Pigozin has become critical of the Russian Army's performance, and this frustration has resulted in confrontation in June 1923, when Pgoxhin sent thousands of fighters to rebel against Russian military command.

The rebellion Vladimir Putin called “thic behind his back” has been brief, but has challenged the Russian president as never before during his 23 years in power.

From the sausages in Putin “cook”

Pigozin was born in what was once Leningrad in 1961, and was raised by his mother, who worked hard to support his son financially after his husband died.

As a teenager, he was involved in skiing, but he still ended up in Leningrad, where he was caught and convicted of stealing the first sentence on his long list.

It includes penalties for armed theft, and trafficking of minors, for which he has been sentenced to over nine years in prison.

He was released from prison in 1990 at the time when the Soviet Union has been facing Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.

Along with his mother and her second husband, he has opened a sausage shop, which has resulted in success.

“I made 1,000 dollars a month, they were then a mountain of rubela”, he said in an interview published in 2011 in St. Petersburg magazine, City 8218.

My mother didn't even count all”.

Later he worked and invested in a chain of stores called Kontrast, which was owned by a friend of the generation.

It is unclear that when Prygozhin's relationship with Putin has developed, although as an entrepreneur in St Petersburg, he probably crossed the same streets as Putin, whose political career has begun as head of St Petersburg in 1999.

Prygozhin is reported to have befriended Putin through his own security and later with Putin's security chief, Victor Zolotv, reports Forbes magazine.

Zolotov has followed Putin as he stepped up his influence in Moscow, and later served as head of the National Guard, a very important agency for Russia.

According to the Meduza news site, Prigozy has entered the restaurant business with another contractor in the late 1990s, when they opened what has become one of St Petersburg's most famous restaurants, Staraya Tamoznya.

Later, he made other investments, bought an old ship and returned it to the New Island restaurant, which has become a famous place to eat, and has been visited by Putin and his guests, including former French president Jacques Chirac in 2001, and later former US president George W. Bush.

Prigozhin's business in gastronomy has grown under the company called Concard Catering, preparing food for schools, hospitals, prisons and then for major organisation in the Kremlin, including the inauguration of Dmitry Medvedev as president in 2008.

His contracts with the Kremlin and other Russian elites have made him known as Putin's “cook”.

Yevgeny Prigozhin showing Putin the food plant for children in St Petersburg schools. September, 2010.

In 2006, when Bush traveled for a summit in St. Petersburg with his wife Laura, they served Prigozhini with wine at a dinner tabled by Putin.

In 2012, Pigozini companies have signed large contracts with Russian Defence Ministry agencies to prepare food for Russia's army.

After Putin's loyal Sergei Shoigu has been appointed head of the Ministry, the contract has soon been cut off, a fact that may have sparked the hostility between Pgozhin and Shoig.

In the late 2010 ' s, Prigozy's reputation has taken another turn, following reports of poisoning children in schools, but also soldiers.

Later, he also established a company of real estates in St Petersburg, through which he was involved in deep conflicts with the city governor, who was also Putin's appointed.

Mercenaries and False News

The exact time of Prigozhin's entry into turbulent waters with his private army is unknown, but observers mention the conflict in Russia and successful intervention in the name of the Syrian government.

The entrepreneurs, some of whom have been veterans of Russian security services, have established a host of security companies in the 2000s; at least one of them has secured the protection of Russian commercial shipping ships for pirates on the coast of Africa.

From the vast numbers of private companies working in Syria, the Wagner group emerged about 2014, when Russia started a uprising east of Ukraine.

Prygozhin is believed to have been Wagner's funder for years, but he has accepted this only in September 2022, since Russia has begun its wide-scale war in Ukraine.

In Syria, Wagner fighters have been charged with war atrocities and potentially war crimes in other countries where they fought, including Sudan and the Central African Republic.

In the latter, Prigozy was said to have signed large concessions for gold and other minerals.

In September 2013, Russian journalists have begun to take an interest in a company that was founded deep in St Petersburg called the Internet Research Agency, widely known as Russia's “fabric for false news”.

Having owned the Prigozhin network, Concordia, business has urged workers to open false accounts on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and VK and to stir up debate and resentment.

In 2018, two years after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the US Department of Justice indicted Prigozhin and 13 other Russians, and issued arrest warrants for Prigozhin, accusing him of plotting with election fraud.

Although researchers have long debated the impact of the Agency for Internet Research, efforts have been seen as a success for Prigozhin, forgiving even more attention.

In November 2022, a few days before the U.S. Congress election, Prigozy has praised herself.

“gentlemen, we have influenced, we influence and we will influence”, Prigozhin said.

Be careful, exactly, and so on, as we know”.

Russian Generals and Violent Violence

Russia's war in Ukraine has given even more reputation to Pgozhin and members of Wagner.

Russian officials and military commanders have estimated that the war launched in Ukraine, on February 24th, 2022, would soon end, with the handover of military forces and Government in Kiev.

Something like that hasn't happened, and after the outbreak of problems within the Russian army, Wagner's fighters have emerged, taking a key role in the war.

Wagner mercenaries have played a key role in the battles in Marioupol and later in Severodonjeck, Lisicansk and Bahmut.

After several months of war, Prygozy has also begun recruiting prisoners.

He has promoted violence as a means of discipline and cultivating fear.

In November 2022, a video was published on the telegram by a Web network connected to Wagner.

In it a Russian soldier, believed to have fled to Ukraine but was again occupied by Russian forces, was seen being killed with a hammer.

Pigage later accepted this act.

As for the war in Ukraine, although Wagner's troops have occasionally proved more effective than the regular Russian troops, group mercenaries have faced large numbers of victims, especially in Bahmut.

Western officials have mentioned major infantry waves of soldiers many of whom were former prisoners sent to positions in Ukraine.

In time, though, Pgozhin has begun to criticize the performance of Russian military commanders, especially Shoig, but has also challenged Putin to call for general mobilization.

He has repeatedly complained that military officials have not given his forces adequate ammunition.

On May 20, 2023, about 10 months after the launch of the Bahmut siege, Russian forces have claimed victory in the city.

Putin has accepted Wagner's role, although he has not mentioned Pgozhin by name.

He's used this opportunity to make fun of military commanders.

So Shoigu and Gerasimov have turned the war into their personal game”, Prigozhi said through a video.

Because of their whims, it is believed that five times more soldiers have died. They will be held responsible for their actions, which the Russians call crime”.

If this was a threat, Pigozin was behind him a few weeks later.

In June 2023, Prygozy has accused the Russian army of launching attacks on Wagner's warriors and demanding Shoig's resignation.

On the morning of the new day, thousands of Wagner forces entered the southern town of Rostov-on Don, taking control of military facilities before heading towards Moscow, in what Pigozin called <x0...marres of justice”.

The capital is prepared for the worst, putting soldiers on the street, setting barricades, and warning the Moskovites to stay at home.

Within hours, rebellion has ended with the speed it has begun.

His fighters, just 200 kilometers from Moscow, have been ordered to stop the advance after reaching an agreement brokered by Belarus.

Putin has been tough, calling the rebellion “thic behind his back”, and has pledged to punish all persons involved.

Later, however, the Kremlin has allowed Pigozin to flee to Belarus and has said that Wagner's members will not be prosecuted.

After the end of the crisis, Putin, who has been trying for years to build an image of stable husbandhood, has returned, according to experts, to the The picture weakened. / REL/