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Due to failures in domestic and foreign policy, Putin's influence in the Kremlin is diminishing. Against this background, other persons are gaining strength, using this moment for active self-promotion.
In words and actions, Putin is less and less reminiscent of himself at the beginning of his presidency in Russia. Political strategist Mikhail Sheitelman told channel 24 about this.
The expert noted that such political figures as Yevgeny Prigozhin and Ramzan Kadyrov are established in Putin's circle.
“Prigozhin generally made a public career for himself over the past two months. Now for Russian politics he is a rising star. Only a few videos have been released and a few interviews. Everyone remembers how he read his speech to the prisoners – it was the best, than Putin's speech. Putin so “lit” at the beginning of his career, “explained the political strategist.
How Prigozhin “recruits” deputies to Wagner: watch the video
According to him, it is with the help of such rhetoricthe current head of the Kremlin won the elections in 2000 and 2004.
Putin had bright “thieves” sayings about “to wet in the toilet” , vivid images and etc. And now Putin is acting as a weak “male” who has lost his former strength, so he doesn't say anything interesting anymore. And then a new force came out in the person of Prigozhin, who is cooler than Putin, who was in the 2000s . He “sings difficult”, as they say in the zone, – Sheitelman added.
Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin: what is known
- Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961, Leningrad) is a Russian oligarch and a confidant of the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, who controls a “network of companies”, including the Wagner PPK, “Olginsky trolls”, etc.
- One of Prigozhin's companies was engaged in catering for the highest officials of the state, thanks to which he received the nickname “Putin's cook” in the media.
- As of 2019 year, his fortune was estimated at 14.6 billion rubles.
- Has been under US sanctions since 2016, EU and UK sanctions since 2020, Australia, Canada and Japan since 2022.
- In July 2022, the US Department of State announced a $10 million reward for information about Prigozhin and 12 other employees of the Internet Research Agency in connection with interference in political and electoral processes in the United States. recruits prisoners to fight in the war. He was filmed in one of the Russian colonies.
- Russian journalist Timur Olevsky believes that it is Prigozhin who personally recruits prisoners. In his opinion, “Putin's chef” receives money for every convict.
- At the end of September, Prigozhin officially admitted for the first time that since 2014 he had owned the Wagner PPK. Prior to that, he denied this information.
- In October, a video appeared in which Prigozhin continues to recruit “convicts” for the war against Ukraine, among whom there are those who lost limbs in battle.
