What is happening in Russia right now with Putin and Wagner mercenary troops? Live updates
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, said his forces would turn back from an advance on Moscow to avoid shedding Russian blood.
Prigozhin was born in the former Soviet Union and served ten years in prison when he was younger. After he was freed from jail, he ran a hot dog stand before becoming the owner of several fancy restaurants in Saint Petersburg. His restaurants brought Prigozhin into close contact with Putin.
I feel like we missed a few steps on the way there, but it’s still an interesting origin story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Born to a poor ethnic Georgian family in the town of Gori [...], Stalin joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party [...] and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings and protection rackets.
Local thugs/mafia-leaders raising to power in Russia/USSR is not a new thing.
How far are they from Moscow? And i wonder if the US is behind this
200km from Moscow they turned around