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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin [a] [b] (1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. [5] He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023. [6]
Prigozhin Jr. has connections with the Colors of Life art gallery, headed by Violetta Prigozhina, mother of Yevgeny Prigozhin. [1] Pavel Prigozhin cooperates with the oil and gas corporation Gazprom; his companies are involved in the construction of luxury real estate in Saint Petersburg. He is also the owner of Lakhta Park, a large housing ...
[1] [2] Based in St. Petersburg, Russia, it owns and operates several restaurants and is also the parent company of Concord Catering. [2] The company was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin in 1995. [3] He was the listed owner until 2009. His mother, Violetta Prigozhina, has been the listed owner since 2011. [4]
The lawsuit claims Facebook and Russian oligarch Yegeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin are responsible for the nine shooting deaths inside Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.
An Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with registration number RA-02795 crashed during a regular high-altitude flight from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] Prigozhin, Utkin, and Chekalov were killed along with two Wagner veterans, two bodyguards, and the three flight staff. [ 83 ]
If Prigozhin is dead, “no one should be surprised," White House spokesperson Adrienne Watson told Insider. Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private security force, in Africa on Aug. 21.
Prigozhin's press secretary declined to comment on the incident, [77] as did surviving members of the Wagner Council of Commanders. [66] On 24 August, Putin issued a statement which called Prigozhin "a person with a complicated fate", adding that "he made some serious mistakes in life, but also achieved necessary results". [78]
The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner [9] (ЧВК «Вагнер»), [66] is a Russian state-funded [67] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin.