Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the elusive Wagner Group, ... Also called “Putin’s chef,” Prigozhin – who got his start in the catering business — once served meals to the Kremlin.

Former President George Bush (R) this week recalled having dinner served by Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin during a G8 summit in Russia, joking he “survived” the meal. Asked at the Yalta ...

Prigozhin is touting reports of Wagner's success in Soledar to bolster its "reputation as an effective fighting force," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a U.S. think tank, wrote in its ...

Prigozhin provided meals to schools, hospitals, prisons, the Russian military and the Ministry of Defense. Putin has sampled menus in almost all of Prigozhin’s restaurants, and even contracted ...

Prigozhin, a one-time felon, hot-dog vendor and longtime associate of Putin, ... In Moscow alone, his company Concord won millions of dollars in contracts to provide meals at public schools.

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin for years had denied any connection to the Wagner mercenary group and operated discreetly on the margins of Russian power, trading in political skulduggery, cafeteria meals ...

He also organized catering for Kremlin events and provided meals and utility services to the Russian military. In 2014, Prigozhin co-founded the Wagner Group, even though private military ...

Prigozhin accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering a rocket strike against Wagner’s war camp in Ukraine, killing 2,000 of his soldiers in a number of video and audio recordings Friday.

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 4, 2017.

Prigozhin and the Long and Infamous History of Failed Russian Rebellions. June 26, 2023. ... (which earned him the sarcastic sobriquet “Putin’s chef,” though he says he never cooked a meal).

Yevgeny Prigozhin won global notoriety last month by brazenly marching his paramilitary forces toward Moscow—before abruptly turning back. For millions of TV viewers transfixed by the almost ...

Like Putin, Prigozhin was a native son of St. Petersburg. Born in 1961, Prigozhin was nine years Putin’s junior but both came of age in the Soviet Union during the waning days of the Cold War.