2023-07-02 03:24:00
Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin (photo: Reuters)
RT on July 1 reported that Roskomnadzor (RKN) – Russia’s media regulator – has blocked access to many media channels related to him. Prigozhin and Wagner’s force.
Access to the RIA FAN news site and other media channels of the Patriot media group founded by Prigozhin was blocked. Patriot Corporation’s future is also uncertain.
Recently, the Patriot Corporation’s media channels mainly reported on Wagner’s military activities in Ukraine and the Russian army.
In addition to RIA FAN, 5 media channels of Patriot Corporation, including Federal News Agency, People’s News, Economy Today, Nevskiye Novosti and Politics Today, were also blocked and stopped working.
According to the Telegram Mash (Russia) news channel, communication channels under the management of Patriot Corporation will be blocked indefinitely.
Rotonda news agency based in St. Petersburg (Russia) reported that Patriot Media Group is in danger of being dissolved.
According to the Moscow Times, Mr. Prigozhin may have to sell Patriot Media Group to National Media Group (NMG). NMG was founded by billionaire banker Yury Kovalchuk, who is said to have close ties to Russian President Putin.
Patriot Corporation was founded by Mr. Prigozhin in 2019. Along with Wagner Military Corporation and Concord Food Company, Patriot brings Mr. Prigozhin a lot of profit.
According to RT, until May, Mr. Prigozhin remained chairman of the board of directors of Patriot Corporation.
Mr. Prigozhin has not yet spoken about the fate of this media group.
On June 23, Prigozhin called on Wagner forces to rebel and enter Moscow to overthrow some officials of the Russian Defense Ministry. The rebellion quickly ended after Wagner reached an agreement to withdraw.
A day later, Roskomnadzor asked the social networking platform Vkontakte to block and remove all Wagner-related websites in order to “prevent the spread of calls to rebel”.
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