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What really happened between Putin and Prigozhin?

What went on between Putin and Prigozhin?

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

1 July 2023

9:00 AM

In the absence of facts, it’s hard to understand what got into Yevgeny Prigozhin. I spoke to the former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky about Prigozhin and Putin and their odd relationship. He says that criminality unites and explains the pair.

Prigozhin went to prison for almost ten years, for robbery. The legend is that he opened the first hotdog stand in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and then moved on to luxury restaurants.

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