Yevgeny Prigozhin Russian oligarch, best known as the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary outfit. Prigozhin grew up in difficult neighborhoods of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1981 a Soviet court found the 20-year-old Prigozhin guilty of having been involved in drunkenness, fraud,
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They were offered high salaries, promises of honor, and state welfare. But Wagner Group fighters say Russia treated them like pariahs after they returned from the war in Ukraine.