go down next. you mentioned prigozhin s empire. there s a certain irony here. you wrote that prigozhin exemplified some of the most telling aspects of putin s 24-year rule. explain whatoueant. well, the overlap between intelligence and dirty tricks, between politics, state administration and business, is the hall mark of the bhu putin regime. it started in st. petersburg in the 1990s, when putin was a municipal bureaucrat, with close ties to organized crime and business, with his background in the intelligence service. and that hybrid regime took over the whole country when putin moved to moscow and into the kremlin. and prigozhin seexecutive exempy i who is he working for? who is he accountable for? and we saw this clearly with the