Polina Prigozhina biography
The businessman, who is called the “Putin’s cook” in the media, has gone from selling hot dogs to the owner of the Wagner PMC and the main critic of the country's military leadership. The early years, education, hobbies of Prigozhin Evgeny Viktorovich was born on June 1 in Leningrad now-St.
Petersburg. Father died early, in the early years the child brought up his stepfather Samuel with hot. Since childhood, he was engaged in ski races, his stepfather, who worked as a ski instructor, taught him to this sport. In private, I can go to very long distances with me, ”Prigozhin told in an interview with the publication“ City ”. After school, he entered the Leningrad Chemical and Farmatsut Institute, received a specialty “Provisor-Farmatset”.
In the year he admitted that the institute did not graduate. Parents, wife and children of Prigozhin, Violetta Kirovna, was a doctor and worked in the hospital. The Livelib Library website states that it is the author of the book on infectious diseases, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases Little Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, an employee of the Organizing Department of the Infectious State Service of St.
Petersburg. The site of the Sochi Museum of N. Ostrovsky claims that Violetta Prigozhina is an artist, the founder of the Gallery of "Paints of Life" in St. Petersburg. In particular, in December, its sixth exhibition entitled “You cannot be destroyed” was held there. For several years, Violetta Prigozhin was listed as a co -owner of the Catering company Concord Management and Consulting, which belongs to the Concord group founded by her son.
For this, the European Union brought it to the sanctions list after the start of a military operation in Ukraine. However, in March, the EU court was annulled by this decision, indicating that Violetta Prigozhin does not own Concord from a year, despite the fact that there are shares of the company at her disposal. The wife of Evgeny Prigozhin Lyubov is 52 years old, by education she is a chemist-pharmacist.
According to the Telegram channel “We can explain”, the businessman’s wife owns the estate in the village of Kabardinka near Gelendzhik, and also leads LLC “Soinvest”, who, through the company “Turstatus”, owns a plot of 39 thousand. The Prigozhin has a son Pavel was born in the year, and the daughter Polina was born in the year and Veronica was born in the year. In the year, the businessman, along with his children, wrote the book of the fairy tales “Indragusic”, which describes the fairy -tale country of Indragusia.
Avito “The Indragusik in this book helped the king and saved the kingdom, and in the future he must do something very heroic,” the author said. In February, the edition of Village and the Telegram channel “We can explain” issued an investigation that claimed that Pavel Prigozhin became the owner of the large St. Petersburg Sinop Business Center on the Sinop Embankment.
Also, according to investigators, he is listed as the owner of Lakhta Park and Lakhta Plaza. According to Evgeny Prigozhin, his son at the age of 18 served in the army, after which he went to fight in Syria. According to the "company", in the year Polina Prigozhina became the co -owner of the "Museum of Chocolate" with her mother. In addition, in the year of Legion JSC, the only shareholder of which is the daughter of a businessman, acquired a dacha of the Prince of Oldenburg on a stone island at auction for a million rubles.
According to Forbes, in the year the Zhdanovsky People's District Court of Leningrad, a sentence of new accusations of theft, fraud, involving a minor of criminal activity and robbery - 13 years of colony. Business: Food, Construction, Army, after leaving the colony, Prigozhin, along with his stepfather, opened a hot dog in Leningrad in Leningrad. In the years, Prigozhin led the chain of stores "Contrast".
In the year, he opened the Bar-store “Wine Club” on Vasilievsky Island, in M-the first “elite” restaurant of St. Petersburg “Old Customs”. In the same year, he registered the catering company Concord Catering. In the year, Prigozhin opened a restaurant on the ship New Island. In the year, President Vladimir Putin held negotiations there with the then President of France Jacques Shirak, and a year later-with George Bush Jr.
In the year, the head of state, according to the media, celebrated his birthday in this institution. In the New Island, Prigozhin, according to his admission, personally served the dishes on the table to the president and his guests. I saw how I did not disdain personally to the crowned persons to bring a plate, ”he said. Since the year, Prigozhin developed a network of cafe-tanks “Damn!
The businessman turned her activity in the year, after which he decided to occupy a niche in the field of power plants. By the middle of X Prigozhin, he actually became a monopolist in the school food market in Moscow, RBC wrote. In the year, Prigozhin opened a restaurant in the government of the government. In the X years, Prigozhin also engaged in the construction business in St.
Petersburg. In March, Concord Management and Consulting, elevated the Lakhta Plaza complex from six residential buildings with a total area of 41.9 thousand. In the middle of the X structure, Concordes won tenders in barracks and educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense for a total of 10.3 billion rubles.In addition, companies related to Prigozhin received contracts for the construction of military facilities in different regions of Russia and their maintenance.
Communication with Putin and the Kremlin according to the media, in particular, Novaya Gazeta, Concord, acted as the organizer of several government and presidential celebrations, including on the occasion of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin in the year. You see, he is not a government official, we have nothing to do with him. ” Prigozhin himself in April announced in an interview with Defenceweb news portal, which was not included in Putin’s immediate circle and has nothing to do with the Kremlin.
Of course, I talked with him, but rumors about our acquaintance are just rumors, ”the businessman said. According to Prigozhin, Putin could visit his restaurants in St. Petersburg when the deputy mayor was in position. In turn, in the Kremlin, against the backdrop of the participation of the Wagner PMC in the military operation in Ukraine, Prigozhin was called a person who "is sick of what is happening" and "makes a great contribution, feasible." It was created to protect the Russian information space from boorish aggressive propaganda of anti -Russian abstracts from the West, ”the businessman said in February.
According to the media, the employees of the "troll factories" used fake accounts in social networks, influencing public opinion, publishing posts and comments of a certain orientation. In the year, Prigozhin’s structures organized the “Media Factory”, which included the Federal News Agency FAN, as well as several other online portals “Economics Today”, “People’s News”, “Politics Today”, etc.
Subsequently, these publications became assets of the Patriot media group. In the year, the United States was accused of Prigozhin and 12 employees of the agency of interfering in the presidential election in the year. The businessman himself called the statements of the American side "Show with a search, as in old cowboy times." Wagner PMC and military operation in Ukraine in October Fontanka announced the recruitment of volunteers in the private military company Wagner to participate in ground operations in Syria, as well as in the conflict in the territory of the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics.
The PMC received its name according to the call sign of the first commander of the unit, the reserve officer Dmitry Utkin. Evgeny Prigozhin for several years rejected the connection with the PMC, but in September he told the Notepad of Notepad that he became the direct founder of the company in the year. The businessman said that PMC fighters are “heroes who defended the Syrian people, other peoples of the Arab countries, destitute Africans and Latin American” and “became one of the supports of our homeland”.
In January, the American Ministry of Finance recognized PMC with an international criminal organization. Since the summer of the year, reports about recruiting prisoners to the ranks of Wagner began to appear in social networks and the media to participate in the military operation in Ukraine. In particular, Evgeny Prigozhin personally was engaged in this, promising the convicted pardon.
According to Prigozhin, more than 30 thousand returned from the military operation zone home. In May, he stated that he received an order according to which the PMC fighters would be transferred “as much as required” ammunition and weapons to continue hostilities. In addition, according to Prigozhin, General Sergei Surovikin was appointed responsible for the interaction of Wagner from the Ministry of Defense.
The military department did not comment on this information. The representatives of Prigozhin called his mission "providing a comfortable environment for generating new ideas in order to increase Russia's defense capabilities, including information." The founder of the PMC accused the “military leadership” of this and promised “reply”, organizing “marching of justice”.
The Ministry of Defense called Prigozhin’s statement “information provocation”. The Prosecutor General’s Office announced the initiation of a criminal case against a businessman “on the fact of a call for armed rebellion” Art. In FSB, Prigozhin’s statements were considered calls for the beginning of the armed civil conflict and called on Wagner's fighters to “stop any force actions against the Russian people, not to carry out criminal and treacherous orders Prigozhin, to take measures to detain it.” The head of state also stated that those who prepared the “armed rebellion” “will bear the inevitable punishment, will answer before the law.”