dissent, orany president who does not tolerate any dissent, or any opposition. the very fact that a man who had been very close to president putin, remember the rise and rise of mr prigozhin, who started off as a hot dog seller, who started off as a hot dog seller, who rose to become a caterer to the kremlin, with very lucrative contract catering to president putin and his cronies who grew very powerful, and went on to command this private army. it has been said that when he criticised the russian military leadership, including the defence minister general shoigu and general gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, general gerasimov, the chief of the generalstaff, he general gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, he was doing it with tacit approvalfrom president general staff, he was doing it with tacit approval from president putin. he had been very careful not to criticise the russian president directly. we saw today for the first time that he did criticise him in public, and o