He is the head of the Wagner mercenary group, feared for their unscrupulousness. For a long time he was considered Putin’s rough man. Yevgeny Prigozhin now opposes the Russian president and threatens to march on Moscow with his fighters. Who is the man who started out as a hot dog seller and now wants to overthrow the autocratic tsar in the Kremlin?
Prisoner, restorer, oligarch, warlord, traitor – Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, born on June 1, 1961 in what was then Leningrad, has experienced a remarkable rise. His father dies early, his mother works in a hospital. Young Evgeni attends a sports boarding school, where he attracts attention as a cross-country skier. But he didn’t make the leap to become a professional athlete. He ends up in bad company and commits several thefts and robberies.
Source: Krone
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