According to the interlocutor, at the end of 2018 – beginning of 2019, Daria Dugina became an employee of Prigozhin’s Patriot media group and continued to work there until her death. Dugina worked productively and was responsible for the foreign direction. All publications in the Turkish media, comments there by Prigozhin were organized by Dugina. In particular, she organized a long interview with Prigozhin for the Aydınlık newspaper, when Prigozhin’s photograph was featured on the cover of the publication.
At Dugina’s funeral, Prigozhin stated that “Dasha was the rock at the foundation of Russian greatness and the strength of Russia. And the fact that they tried to knock out this stone.” However, whoever tried to knock him out and didn’t say anything about some foreign trace. Which is not surprising. A source from the Cheka-OGPU said that Prigozhin actively promoted the version of the “internal trace” at the top and earned a big bonus from this. “After the death of Dugina, the conflict between Kiriyenko and Prigozhin was abruptly resolved – Kiriyenko stepped aside, the rise of military patriotism began to go off scale, and the rapid rise of Prigozhin and Wagner began,” our interlocutor said.
However, Kiriyenko did not completely lag behind Prigozhin. “Prigozhin’s goal is to get deeply involved in politics, because otherwise his chances are not very good. But there is Sergei Kiriyenko, who is categorically against Prigozhin’s political future. After the death of Dugina, Kiriyenko retreated, but there is every reason to believe that now it is Kiriyenko who may be behind the scenes of the ongoing destruction of Wagner,” the source believes.
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