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'''Yevgeny Prigozhin''' is Russian businessman and entrepreneur who was engaged in providing the Russian army and schools with low-quality public catering before the start of the "Special Military Operation" of Russian troops in Ukraine.
'''Yevgeny Prigozhin''' was one Russian mercenary leader and an oligarch. He headed the private military company Wagner Group and was a close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin before the uprising began in June 2023  Prigozhin was sometimes called "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering establishments that provided services to the Kremlin. Once convicted in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose activities, according to the 2020 investigation, It was "closely integrated with the Russian Ministry of Defense and its intelligence unit, the GRU."


Little is known about his past before entrepreneurship, but there is information that he is a recidivist who was engaged in organizing robberies and other crimes on the territory of Russia.
In 2014, Prigozhin reportedly founded the Wagner Group to support pro-Russian paramilitary groups in Ukraine. Funded by the Russian state, it played a significant role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supported Russian interests in Syria and Africa. In November 2022, Prigozhin acknowledged the interference of his companies in the elections in the United States. In February 2023, he confirmed that he is the founder and long-time head of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company engaged in online propaganda and disinformation campaigns.
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Yevgeni Prigozhin
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Full Name: Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (birth name)
Alias: chief
cook
Putin's cook
Origin: Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation: businessman
owner of the Concord Group and the Wagner PMCs
Skills: Leadership
wealth
deception
business skills
political connections (earlier)
Control over Wagner PMC

Hobby: Make video about the military situation at the front
Praises PMC Wagner
Goals: To help the Russian Federation in a special military operation in Ukraine (successful for a while, later abandoned)
Overthrow Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu and Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov from the posts of heads of the Ministry of Defense of Russia(unsuccessfully,false intentions)
Withdraw his troops from Bakhmut (successfully)
Conduct military affairs in Africa(temporarily successful, later failed)
Crimes: War crimes
Crimes against humanity
Ethnic cleansing
Mass murder (including child murder)
Propaganda
Torture
Genocide
Islamophobia
Xenophobia
Christophobia
Anti-Semitism
Ableism
Misogyny
Ukrainophobia
involvement of minors in criminal activity
conspiracy to defraud the United States
Stalking
Type of Villain: Jingoistic corrupted official


We will all go to hell, but in hell we will be the best.
~ Yevgeni Prigozhin
I have been avoiding the blows of many opponents for a long time with one main goal — not to substitute these guys, who are the basis of Russian patriotism.
~ Yevgeni Prigozhin

Yevgeny Prigozhin was one Russian mercenary leader and an oligarch. He headed the private military company Wagner Group and was a close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin before the uprising began in June 2023 Prigozhin was sometimes called "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering establishments that provided services to the Kremlin. Once convicted in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose activities, according to the 2020 investigation, It was "closely integrated with the Russian Ministry of Defense and its intelligence unit, the GRU."

In 2014, Prigozhin reportedly founded the Wagner Group to support pro-Russian paramilitary groups in Ukraine. Funded by the Russian state, it played a significant role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supported Russian interests in Syria and Africa. In November 2022, Prigozhin acknowledged the interference of his companies in the elections in the United States. In February 2023, he confirmed that he is the founder and long-time head of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company engaged in online propaganda and disinformation campaigns.