Wagner’s Godfather, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Is Emerging From the Shadows and May Have Political Intentions for the Post-Putin Era.

Yevgeny Prigozhin wants to present himself as the leader of a hard line against Vladimir Putin who is increasingly criticized in Russia.

We have never heard of him and only a few rare photos have been taken of him, the most famous one showing him as a butler presenting the menu to a “client” who is none other than Vladimir Putin. The two men had known each other in the 1990s when the former had opened a luxury restaurant in St. Petersburg, where the future Russian president had just move…