Denis Korotkov

The funeral to be held was for Yevgeny Prigozhin, a billionaire who had made enormous sums of money supplying food to Russian schools and military bases; a criminal who had served time in his youth for robbery and assault; a restaurateur who had fed the most influential politicians on the planet in his establishments; the owner of a “troll factory” that fought Kremlin opponents on the Internet and tried to influence the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election; the recipient of state awards from Russia, Syria, the Central African Republic, Libya, Sudan, Burkina Faso, and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics; and, finally, the creator of the Wagner Group, an armed unit of ex-military and criminal thugs who have spent over a decade fighting on Vladimir Putin's beh