insidious caterer
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Wagner’s boss’s catering business is said to have lost its contract with the army, which had depended on its services for more than fifteen years. Moscow must quickly organize another supply of food for its soldiers.
Wagner’s headquarters at 2 Zolnaya Street in St. Petersburg is now just an anonymous 23-story office building. The white letters that made up the company name on the glass doors were peeled off by maintenance workers on Saturday. The big sign on the roof disappeared that same day and the staff left. The private military company, owned by mutineer Evgueni Prigojine, announced it would “suspend its recruitment for a month.”
Across Russia, the Prigozhin economic empire is being dismantled. On June 30, watchdog Roskomnadzor blocked the news sites of Patriot Media Group, the billionaire’s media conglomerate, which also includes his agency RIA FAN and the notorious Trollfarm Internet Research Agency. Wagner’s boss did not limit his business to mercenary and influence operations. It is at the forefront of a tangle of corporations that are difficult to unravel and track down, but whose impact extends into finance, construction, exploitation of natural resources and logistics.
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