It seems Prigozhin is not a loner;

Wagner rebellion may be the result of a conspiracy by part of the Russian elites.
Despite the fact that Yevgeny Prigozhin has been given the image of a "selfmade man" and impulsive "loner" among the Russian establishment, neither his "rise"…

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