Yevgeny Prigozhin is gone — subject to confirmation from biological remains at the plane crash site in Tver Oblast. Like Icarus, the blustering, ambitious schemer fell from a great height.
Prigozhin had become an embarrassment since his march on Moscow two months ago. Few in Russia’s elite will mourn. A sample of members of the Duma, the parliament in Moscow, registered lack of surprise at his apparent death and welcomed it. Intriguingly, the technocrats that have kept the institutions and the banks running show little sympathy.
