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Wagner’s war: A year in Ukraine and beyond

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Vladimir Putin's Restaurant in St Petersburg, Russia

Abbas Galyimov is a former speechwriter for Vladimir Putin. He now lives in Israel and this month he was declared a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice. Abbas met Progosian once, but as a waiter at his restaurant in St Petersburg. But obviously, he was not the progosian we know today. At the time, he was no military commander. Was he a good waiter? Did he leave him a tip? Yes, we did. Through his businesses, you have any progosian comes into contact with the mayoral office in St Petersburg and with one politician in particular, Vladimir Putin. And that's actually how he got his influence because Putin loved him

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