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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Pjotr Sauer and Jason Burke

‘He lived by the troll, he dies by the troll’: Putin takes on Prigozhin’s business empire

The Wagner logo is removed from the windows of the organisation’s closed-down office in St Petersburg.
The Wagner logo is removed from the windows of the organisation’s closed-down office in St Petersburg. Photograph: Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images

As Wagner mercenaries captured a major Russian military base and began their armed march on Moscow, members of Russia’s federal security services stormed one of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s headquarters in St Petersburg.

Masked men quickly seized computers and documents belonging to the Patriot group, a media holding at the heart of Prigozhin’s information empire that for years promoted the warlord at home while sowing chaos and interfering with elections abroad.

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