Russia | Yevgeni Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s clandestine Wagner private army, unexpectedly started talking to the media – this is how he answered HS’s questions

The answers questions will be sent by e-mail. The introductory part of the message is short: “We are sending Yevgeni Viktorovich’s comments:”

In Russian, it is polite to refer to a person by their first name and patronymic derivative. Yevgeni Viktorovich means Yevgeny Prigozhin. He is known by the nickname “Putin’s cook”.