Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian mercenary leader, oligarch, restaurateur, former owner of Wagner PVC (1961–2023)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Russian mercenary who ran Wagner Group and supplied Putin's table before staging a 48-hour mutiny in 2023. Once a Soviet convict, he became an oligarch whose private army and catering empire were inseparable from Moscow's power structure.
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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin 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 Mi…
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