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245. What is Happening in Russia?: Mutiny and the Wagner Group! (English Vocabulary Lesson)

Thinking in English

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The Wagner Group and Yevgeny Pragogen

Yevgeny Pragogen was known as Putin's chef before becoming a mercenary. He started selling hotdogs on the streets of St Petersburg in the early 1990s. His restaurants quickly attracted some of Russia's elite and powerful leaders. Vladimir Putin would regularly take foreign visitors to his restaurants, he even celebrated his birthdays there.

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