2023-08-29 12:23:00
Tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin in the center of Moscow MAXIM SHEMETOV | REUTERS
The government spokesman has not given details about the celebration pending the decisions made by the family of the victim
29 ago 2023 . Updated at 12:23 p.m.
From the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, not going to the funeral in memory of the founder of the Wagner GroupYevgeni Prigozhin, who died last week after the plane he was traveling in crashed unknown causes when I was flying from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
The presence of the president is not foreseenhas settled this Tuesday its main spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, who has not given details about the celebration of the burial pending the decisions that his environment may adopt.
In several cities of Moscow there have been registered in these last days spontaneous tributes to the figure of Prigozhinwho for years has commanded a network of mercenaries involved in various conflict scenarios, including that of Ukraine.
The sudden death of the oligarch has generated a wave of speculation in recent days, althoughThe Kremlin has assured that it had nothing to do with the incidentPutin has publicly expressed his condolences, nevertheless recalling the mistakes made by his former ally, in a veiled allusion to the rebellion that he launched in June by ellder de Wagner.
Russia confirms Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash two months after his rebellion against the Kremlin
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