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Today in Focus

The final weeks of Yevgeny Prigozhin

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Wagner leader seemed to have achieved the unthinkable: humiliating Putin and getting away with it. But had he really been forgiven – or was the Kremlin playing for time?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.2

Today, for the past two months,

0:11.0

it looked like you've got any pregoation

0:12.8

had done the impossible.

0:14.0

Crossed Vladimir Putin and survived.

0:16.8

Behind the scenes, though,

0:18.0

a very different story was playing out.

0:20.2

The driver was killed in the car in two times.

0:30.2

Look at him.

0:32.2

Last Wednesday, a plane said to be carrying

0:36.0

the Russian mercenary leader,

0:37.4

Yvgeny Pregozion,

0:38.6

went down in a field a few hundred miles from Moscow.

0:41.6

And you'd have to say,

0:43.5

the news of his death did not come as a surprise.

0:46.5

Pregozion, who runs a business empire

0:49.2

that includes the brutal mercenary group Wagner,

0:52.2

as well as troll farms, disinformation outlets,

0:55.2

even a catering service,

0:56.9

has been a long time problem solver for the Kremlin.

1:01.2

After being jailed for nine years for robbery and fraud,

1:04.5

he became a hot dog salesman,

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