INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
On the evening of June 23, Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was preparing to give the order for his men to march to Moscow and
support for mobilized and volunteer soldiers fighting in Ukraine, suggesting introducing government bonds and a state monopoly on alcohol to
minute, The Moscow Times has learned.These plans were disclosed on condition of anonymity by a person familiar with Prigozhin and his plans
and a source in the State Duma
on the frontline, Prigozhin's influence grew rapidly and peaked dramatically
TASSBy June 2023, his popularity with Russians had reached a record level
Russian public, according to the Romir polling agency.However, his growing influence and his aggressive manner of doing business provoked
more aggressive, the independent Vyorstka news outlet reported in late February.By the late spring and early summer of 2023, the Wagner
a head, the informal influence that had always been one of his advantages was drying up
He was deprived of the ability to personally discuss and resolve issues with the Kremlin and the government, and lost his access to
However, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin turned down his request."Volodin rejected this, as there was a ban from the Kremlin on any
Russian FederationAfter the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the party was widely perceived as sympathetic toward Prigozhin and Wagner
from a hospital, saying on his Telegram channel that they discussed the course of the invasion."[It was] all prepared in secret from the
Duma leadership and party leadership," a source in the party said.The late Wagner leader was supposed to enter the Duma by invitation from a
close to the State Duma leadership told The Moscow Times.Flowers laid at Prigozhin's grave at Porokhovskoye Cemetery in St
Peter Kovalev / TASSThe footage of his speech at the party roundtable with a recognizable entourage from the Russian parliament would have
before the planned speech, The Moscow Times' sources were told that Prigozhin's participation in the roundtable meeting had been canceled
The package was not supposed to be published the same day, but later
There was to be a major scandal afterward," a source in the party said.Screenshot of messenger conversation with Oleg Nilov.When asked if he
Wagner mercenaries occupied a military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don and send a column of troops toward Moscow until Prigozhin agreed to
stand down some 24 hours later.In two months, Prigozhin and other Wagner leaders would die in a plane crash northwest of Moscow.Prigozhin
tried to get in from the back door, Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told The Moscow
