![]() ![]() ![]() “Big money made Prigozhin’s head spin,” Kiselyov said Sunday, saying the private army's battlefield successes gave the mercenary boss “a feeling of impunity.” Russian business daily Vedomosti cited a source close to the Defense Ministry as saying the earnings occurred between 20, years when both Prigozhin and Russian officials denied any ties to Wagner or even its existence. Petersburg municipal council member Nikita Yuferev called the “gradual erosion of the legal system” in Russia.Īndrei Kolesnikov, senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, writing about the mutiny in a column, concluded: “The fabric of the state is disintegrating.”Īfter Putin indicated the government would probe financial irregularities by Prigozhin’s companies, state TV picked up that cue.Ĭommentator Dmitry Kiselyov said Wagner and another company owned by Prigozhin earned over 1.7 trillion rubles ($18.7 billion) through government contracts. ![]() The developments around Prigozhin, who remains unpunished despite Putin's labeling of his revolt as treason, underscored what St. ![]()
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