Yevgeny Prigozhin is winning public support among extremists who believe their aging president is failing them.
As Russia’s ruling elite one-by-one fall down stairs or out windows, another star is rising. Now speculation is mounting that “Putin’s Chef” is preparing to step out of the kitchen.He quickly became part of President Vladimir Putin’s inner sanctum.And he has his own mercenary army.. He’s spruiking his Wagner Group mercenaries as Russia’s most effective fighting force. He’s waging a verbal war against key Putin appointees.
An expletive-laden video from frustrated Wagner mercenaries has exploded through Russian social media. It shows troops cursing – by name – Putin’s appointed Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, Valery Gerasimov.That’s despite not being part of his chain of command. “As for the problems that are unfortunately surfacing at every step … we will force them to be solved.”“ circle of advisers narrowed,” CIA chief Bill Burns said in April.
“He is looking for his place in this new reality that has come into existence after and that has brought him into conflict with many powerful people,” Exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky told Radio Free Europe.“The people around Putin protect themselves,” sacked Russian human-rights council member Ekaterina Vinokurova told the But Prigozhin appears above this.
“The people around Putin protect themselves,” former Russian human-rights council member Ekaterina Vinokurova told the Wall Street Journal.Besides his catering business, Prigozhin is also behind the Internet Research Agency – an internet troll farm that became infamous for its attempts to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election. That gives him a powerful propaganda tool at home and abroad.This force is loyal to him. Not Putin. Nor Russia’s halls of parliament.
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