"Very similar to Kadyrov." As Putin's chef became a leader of mercenaries and turns the Russian Federation into a gang - a Russian journalist tells about Prigogine

Yevgeny Prigogin (photo: Michael Metsel / TASS) "Kuhar Putin", Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigogin claims for the post of Sergei Shoigu - Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, suggest some military experts. He is called the dictator of Vladimir Putin, and is also associated with the "companies" of mercenaries, including Wagner group. Earlier, a video appeared on the network where he recalls prisoners in the Russian prison for war against Ukraine.

Video of the day in an interview with Radio NV, Russian journalist Timur Olevsky told in detail how Prigogine was formed in the 90's and what he is doing now, turning Russia into a gang. - Yevgeny Prigogine is called Putin's chef. Please explain why? How close is it close to the President of the Russian Federation? What Putin wants from him? - He really became a cook because he was real. In the 1990s, Prigogine began his businessman's career in St.

Petersburg-this is not a great secret, and was a fairly successful restaurateur. He opened four very large and quite popular restaurants. One day, he was lucky, and maybe not lucky, but did not happen quite by accident. In one of his restaurants-this is a steamer of Neva, called, in my opinion, New Island-received Putin and [US President George] Bush. Then Bush Jr. visited Russia. They had lunch on the ship, and Prigogine literally brought food as the owner of a restaurant and a chef.

Since then, this nickname - Putin's chef. He has always supported this opinion. The fact that the restaurant business in St. Petersburg in the 1990s is a specific business for money laundering, everyone understands it. But he really opened the restaurants and everything was fine. And then it turned out that he was not just Putin's chef, but also a chef of the Ministry of Defense.

And concluded with the Ministry of Defense through the network of false companies, which are mostly recorded on former security officers (nominal directors and a complex system of relationships through credit agreements), loan agreements. He opened a huge number of companies that feed the infinitely large number of military units of the Ministry of Defense. This is the main food supplier for the Ministry of Defense. It is government order.

We learned about it when they did the first investigation into Yevgeny Prigogine, because in addition to feeding the Ministry of Defense, he constantly did not eat food to the soldiers and the Ministry of Defense at that time was still judged with him, demanded that he compensate for the damage for not being put Yasa in cutlets. After that, Yevgeny Prigogin not only lost the contracts of the Ministry of Defense, but also expanded his business empire.

He actually destroyed the concept in Moscow schools as his own kitchen. Some Moscow schools had their own kitchens: someone was brewing soup, someone peak pizza. It was all closed under the prisoners. He has become the only monopolist in the food market that not only Moscow supplies food to all schools. He opened an enterprise called a Moscow schoolboy, which was famous for having poisoned children in 2019. But I think this is not what Putin loves and supports him so much.

This is probably a consequence that Putin loves and supports him. We know a lot of Putin's associates who started his political career with him since the 1990s. We do not understand at what point Putin and Prigogine became so close, because Prigogine is a character rather than a bandit pelvis in its purest form. Very talented, we must pay tribute, a businessman and a person who is able to build his relationship with the authorities. This is talented.

The term for some disgusting crime associated with violence against women and robbery in the 1980s. Such is a blink businessman. But his career as a person who interested us in the war now began at the moment when Russia was needed proxy in order to do dirty work on different fronts of the world, and Prigogine needed some powerful army, grouping.

The fact is that Prigogine is really (now it becomes clear) very similar to [Kremlin puppet in Chechnya Ramzan] Kadyrov in the way of building his identity. Just in Kadyrov the whole region in management - he is practically the king of the Chechnya region, who does not even obey: Rather, Russia is subject to Chechnya's laws than Russia's laws. But everything is difficult. - Currently, he is engaged in recruiting prisoners for war with Ukraine.

And they say that he introduces Stalinist methods of recruitment. Why do they have a bet? What do they say in the Russian Federation? How does Putin react to this? - I think Putin has no great choice, he needs people in the war. There is a strange story here. Prigogine began the career of the PEC owner at a time when Dmitry Utkin, the man who started the Slavic Corps, tried to fight in Syria, found a sponsor - Prigogine.

Subsequently, this Slavic corps appeared in Ukraine in 2014, passing the first run. When the Slavic Corps only appeared in Syria in 2013, they were a terrible failure. Then they received money, tried their hand in Ukraine, gained experience in Syria and Africa. They, in view of everything, participated in the murder of Russian journalists, including my friend Orhan Jemal. They killed a huge number of people as you understand because their profession is a war by any method.

And now we see how he literally recalls people with words: you can redeem the debt to the Motherland, you have nothing to lose, because it is not yet known if you get out of these prisons at all, and here in six months, if you survive, you will get out . Successfully, in view of everything, he recalls. Judging by the numbers at the disposal of The Insider, where I work, 10-15% of the population of the zones [he recalls] for one arrival.

For example, an amazing story: in the Saratov region he managed to send a cannibalism to the war of cannibalism. He was only sentenced to 12 years. In Russia, cannibalism is a smaller crime than, for example, a political crime against the regime. How do people treat this? Hard to tell. The fact is that Prigogine himself recently commented on his recruitment activities. He said, addressing the Russians: "If you do not like that the prisoners go to the war, then send your children.

And if you do not want your children to be fought there, then thank me that I will not send them there, but prisoners. " First, there is no option in this rhetoric that there may be no war at all, it does not offer it. Since war is something that, according to Prigogine, Russian society cannot be abolished. Therefore, Russian society has to choose: they go to war or prisoners.

It is clear that in such a paradigm, if you conduct a survey now, it turns out that most people say: well, let the prisoners go. This is one story that destroys morality. And another history destroys the state. After all, he sends people convicted of murder. Today we are seriously discussing the question of whether we went to the war to buy out the debt and, accordingly, to get forgiveness after six months and be at large, the killer of Boris Nemtsov.

Because telegrams, close to the Kremlin, but not even any opposition, write: “Zur Dadayev is a person who was sentenced to the murder Blob of the Wagner PEC - to fight in Ukraine. ” But since it is Chechen history, it may not be fighting like all other prisoners, but in Tiktok fighting. And then six months later he will find herself with the Order of Courage and the words "everything, I am at freedom. Only in 2015 I killed Nemtsov.

Seven years have passed, and now I am law -abiding, released from all punishments by a citizen. " - Russian military bloggers say Prigogine can change Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoig. How shaking is the chair under the shore after a successful counter -offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kharkov? How do you evaluate the chances of Prigogine to become Russian Defense Minister? - The fact that Shoigu is a bad Minister of Defense, it is quite clear.

But the problem of failures of the Russian army is not only due to the fact that the Defense Minister Shoigu is engaged in PR, not the preparation of the army for war. And also with what you understand what thing: the Russian army is not very consistent. There are all units in a row, there is no single command. And Prigogine, in view of everything, is the most motivated and prepared structure, because there is a great skeleton of people who have passed a lot of fighting.

And they run a battle like the Ukrainian army on the battlefield when the younger commander can make decisions. But there is one nuance: Prigogine himself promises to those who try not to step - shooting. Prigogine says Zekam, "Run into the trench, cut everyone. Whoever gets down - they will kill who will get - he will win. " He is only interested in the result. And in this sense, the Russian army cannot fight so much.

But I do not think that Prigogine wants to take the place of Shogu, because he likes the hazel, it seems to me that money is made, not reporting with the generals together before Putin for a huge irreversible car that really does not earns as Prigogine earns on contracts. In Russia, in particular, thanks to Prigogine and its sending people to war from zones, the concept of the state is destroyed.

It is actually the cancellation of court decisions, a spit towards the FSVP, investigators and police who caught these people. Moreover, Prigogine himself says that we will consider every case of the prisoner personally, because we understand that one of you is wrong here. Prigogine honored people in Russia, who are sitting in the area, a "true just judgment.

" But there are two options in Russia: an unfair court that can condemn you for 20 years, if you are innocent; And a "just trial" that can condemn you to murder, send you to kill or die in Ukraine, but with [a little] probability of returning alive in six months and setting into freedom. Such alternatives are offered by Prigogine, saying it in words. It is not very similar to how the state works, it simplifies the state, turns it into a gang. How can he be a Minister of Defense? I do not know.

I think no. Russia becomes a very simple state after such rhetoric and action. Accordingly, the decisions after this war will also be made very simple, I have no doubt. I assume that a wave of unprecedented repression awaits Russia. I would say that this war rejects Russia in the pre-war years: only then killed, and now in another way, but about the same thing happens: when there is no person who could feel safe-neither the opposition, nor the official, no one.