Yevgeny Prigozhin

Extracted Attributes

• Award

  Order of Friendship

• Gender

  Male

• Nickname

  Putin's chef

• Full Name

  Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin

• FBI Reward

  Up to $250,000 for information leading to arrest

• Occupation

  Mercenary leader, rebel commander, oligarch

• Citizenship

  Russia

• Educated At

  Saint Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical University

• Date of Birth

  1961-06-01

• Date of Death

  2023-08-23

• Place of Birth

  Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Place of Death

  Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia

Timeline

• Yevgeny Prigozhin is born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). (Source: Wikipedia)

  1961-06-01

• Prigozhin personally serves U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin at his luxury floating restaurant, acquiring the nickname 'Putin's chef'. (Source: The Guardian)

  2002-01-01

• Prigozhin reportedly founds the Wagner Group to support Russian operations in Ukraine. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2014-01-01

• The United States issues an arrest warrant and indictment for Prigozhin regarding U.S. election interference. (Source: Britannica)

  2018-02-16

• The European Union imposes sanctions on Prigozhin for funding Wagner Group operations in Libya. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2020-10-01

• The European Union imposes further sanctions on Prigozhin for his role in the invasion of Ukraine. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-04-01

• Prigozhin publicly acknowledges his companies' interference in United States elections. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-11-01

• Prigozhin is named Person of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption by OCCRP. (Source: OCCRP)

  2022-12-01

• Prigozhin confirms he was the founder and long-time manager of the Internet Research Agency. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-02-01

• Prigozhin launches an armed rebellion against Russian military leadership, capturing Rostov-on-Don before calling off the march toward Moscow. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-06-23

• Prigozhin dies in a business jet crash in Tver Oblast, Russia, widely attributed to sabotage or an onboard bomb. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-08-23

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader, rebel commander, and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until he launched a one-day rebellion in June 2023. Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin. Once a convict in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose operations, according to a 2020 investigation, were "tightly integrated with Russia's Defence Ministry and its intelligence arm, the GRU". In 2014, Prigozhin reportedly founded the Wagner Group, which was used to support Russian separatist forces 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 in Africa. In November 2022, Prigozhin acknowledged his companies' interference in United States elections. In February 2023, he confirmed that he was the founder and long-time manager of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian company running online propaganda and disinformation campaigns. Prigozhin's companies and associates, and formerly Prigozhin himself, are subject to economic sanctions and criminal charges in the United States and the United Kingdom. In October 2020, the European Union (EU) imposed sanctions against Prigozhin for his financing of the Wagner Group's activities in Libya. In April 2022, the EU imposed further sanctions on him for his role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The FBI offered a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to Prigozhin's arrest. Prigozhin openly criticized the Russian Defense Ministry for corruption and mishandling the war against Ukraine. Eventually, he said the reasons they gave for invading were lies. On 23 June 2023, he launched a rebellion against the Russian military leadership. Wagner forces captured Rostov-on-Don and advanced toward Moscow. The rebellion was called off the following day, and the criminal charges against Prigozhin were dropped after he agreed to relocate his forces to Belarus. On 23 August 2023, exactly two months after the rebellion, Prigozhin was killed along with nine other people when a business jet crashed in Tver Oblast, north of Moscow. The Wall Street Journal cited sources within the US government as saying that the crash was likely caused by a bomb on board or "some other form of sabotage". Since then, researchers and other analysts have reached the conclusion that an on-board bomb or explosive likely downed the plane.

Web Search Results

• Yevgeny Prigozhin | Wagner Group, Sanctions, & Death | Britannica

  Yevgeny Prigozhin (born June 1, 1961, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]—died August 23, 2023, near Kuzhenkino, Russia) was a Russian oligarch, best known as the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit. In June 2023, he led a group of Wagner troops in an armed action, taking the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don but stopping short of moving on Moscow. Two months later Prighozin died in suspicious circumstances when his private plane crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg. [...] Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Russia-Ukraine War Yevgeny Prigozhin Wagner Group tank in Rostov-on-Don Britannica AI Icon Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Russia-Ukraine War # Yevgeny Prigozhin Britannica AI Icon ### Who was Yevgeny Prigozhin? Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian oligarch, best known as the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit. In June 2023, he led a group of Wagner troops in an armed action, taking the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don but stopping short of moving on Moscow. Two months later Prighozin died in suspicious circumstances when his private plane crashed between Moscow and St. Petersburg. [...] Yevgeny Prigozhin In the 2010s Prigozhin’s career took another turn, and his support of Putin’s government shifted from the culinary sphere to that of propaganda and warfare. First, Prigozhin is widely believed to have played a leadership role in the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a “troll farm” based in St. Petersburg responsible for a number of disinformation campaigns. The IRA spread false news, sowed division, and sought to shape political outcomes, most notably during the 2016 Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The U.S. government responded by imposing sanctions on Prigozhin and, in 2018, issuing a warrant for his arrest.

• Yevgeny Prigozhin - Wikipedia

  is a political strategist that has coordinated the trolls' efforts for Prigozhin in Africa. [...] ## Early life and education Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was born an only child on 1 June 1961 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His mother, Violetta Kirovna Prigozhina, was a hospital nurse. His father, Viktor Yevgenyevich Prigozhin, was a mining engineer who died when Yevgeny was nine. His grandfather, Yevgeny Ilyich Prigozhin, was a captain in the Red Army during World War II, who fought in the Battles of Rzhev and received a medal "For Courage". Prigozhin sponsored the 2020 war film Rzhev?action=edit&redlink=1 "Rzhev (film) (page does not exist)") [ru "ru:Ржев (фильм)")], based on a 1991 novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev") [ru] that mentions his grandfather. [...] 50. 1 2 3 4 MacFarquhar, Neil (16 February 2018). "Meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian Oligarch Indicted in U.S. Election Interference". The New York Times. ISSN "ISSN (identifier)") 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2018. 51. ↑ Barshad, Amos (18 August 2022). "Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Man Known as 'Putin's Chef,' Explained". Eater. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023. 52. 1 2 "Пригожин Евгений Викторович" [Prigozhin Evgeny Viktorovich]. Zampolit (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 September 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

• Yevgeny Prigozhin obituary | Yevgeny Prigozhin | The Guardian

  Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has died aged 62 in a plane crash, was a multimillionaire militia commander who sparked the biggest crisis in the Russian president Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power. Once a close friend and confidant of Putin, in June 2023 Prigozhin led an armed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership after severely criticising the invasion of Ukraine as being unnecessary and based on false premises. [...] By 2002 Prigozhin was a multimillionaire entrepreneur, with investments in restaurants, supermarkets and construction. During the US president George W Bush’s visit to Russia that year, Putin invited his American guest to dine in a luxury floating restaurant on the River Neva that Prigozhin owned. Prigozhin was filmed personally serving both presidents and their wives. The media gave him the nickname “Putin’s chef”. Yevgeny Prigozhin serving Vladimir Putin during a dinner with foreign scholars and journalists at the Cheval Blanc restaurant, near Moscow, 2011. The media nicknamed him ‘Putin’s chef’. Photograph: Reuters

• Yevgeny Prigozhin | OCCRP

  # Yevgeny Prigozhin Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and mercenary leader, has become perhaps the most conspicuous avatar of everything that is darkest about his motherland in his fusion of crooked money and brutal violence, his sneering cynicism, and his impunity in the face of even Russian law. #### Reported by Since the very beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, some of the Kremlin’s fiercest battles have been fought by a lawless private army, its ranks swelled by convicted felons. [...] At its head is Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and mercenary leader who this year has become perhaps the most conspicuous avatar of everything that is darkest about his motherland. In his fusion of crooked money and brutal violence, his sneering cynicism, and his impunity in the face of even Russian law, he embodies the malevolence of state-sponsored corruption in a way few can match. ### 2022 FINALISTS FOR PERSON OF THE YEAR IN ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION 2022 FINALISTS FOR PERSON OF THE YEAR IN ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION (Nominations are accepted from readers, journalists and editors in the OCCRP global network, and the Person of the Year judges) Finalists: [...] European Court of Justice (for its recent ruling that shuts down public access to company ownership data - a key tool for exposing corruption) President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega That’s why — as his hired guns rain death on yet another Ukrainian city — a panel of judges convened by OCCRP has chosen Prigozhin as 2022’s “Person of the Year” in organized crime and corruption. In the words of OCCRP publisher and co-founder Drew Sullivan, he has earned this distinction for his tireless efforts to “extend Russia's vicious and corrupt reach, to steal for Vladimir Putin, and to punish those who resist.”

• Two Months After Mutiny in Russia, Wagner Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin Dies in Plane Crash

  ### Description 311336 views Posted: 24 Aug 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin, longtime leader of the private Russian mercenary Wagner Group, has reportedly died in a plane crash two months after his group launched a short-lived armed mutiny against Vladimir Putin. Several other key figures with the Wagner Group were also reportedly killed in the crash. The crash was "not unexpected," says Kimberly Marten, Barnard College professor of political science, who has been researching and writing about the Wagner Group for years. "We know that Putin takes revenge on people who are disloyal," says Marten, who expects the Wagner Group's operations in several African countries to continue, but says political infighting in Russia has weakened the country's invasion of Ukraine. Transcript: [...] this is democracy Now democracynow.org The War and Peace report I'm Amy Goodman and I'm naming Sheikh Welcome to our listeners and viewers across the country and around the world two months to the day after the private Russian mercenary group Wagner staged a failed Mutiny the group's head yevgeny pregosian was apparently killed in a plane crash north of Moscow shortly after 6 PM local time Wednesday eyewitness videos posted online show the plane was missing a wing as it spiraled to the ground the official passenger list said several other senior Wagner members were on board including Dimitri utkin a mercenary commander who allegedly founded the Wagner group in 2014 also on board was yevgeni makarian who fought with the Mustang group in Syria and long-time pregosian Ally Valeri chigalov

• Award

  Order of Friendship

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Saint Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  condottiero

• Citizenship

  Russia

• Date Of Birth

  6/1/1961

• Date Of Death

  8/23/2023

• Place Of Birth

  Saint Petersburg

• Place Of Death

  Kuzhenkino