, the savage attack dog of Vladimir , has finally turned on his master. And then regretted it.No one can say the warning signs were not there. As his Wagner mercenaries have been dying in their thousands in the meat grinders of , Prigozhin has for the past few months begun raging against the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces, Valery Gerasimov, and the Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu, for their lack of support. According to him: it was a calculated betrayal. Many thought he crossed a line by referring to Putin himself as a 'd***head' in a video rant posted online last month.But ordering his men to leave Ukraine and launch a coup in Russia was truly an astonishing escalation. Even after his reversing his march on Moscow, Prigozhin risks almost certain death, so what do we know about him? What can explain his seemingly insane actions? Like Putin, Prigozhin comes from St Petersburg. He grew up a street thug and was convicted of a string of robberies – in one choking a lone woman in the street till she fell unconscious, before he and his three accomplices stole her gold earrings and her shoes.
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