An informed interlocutor close to the management of Rosneft told the “We Can Explain” channel about the informal meeting between Sechin and Prigozhin that took place at the beginning of last week. According to him, based on the results of his communication with Prigozhin, Sechin instructed the vice-president of the company, the head of its apparatus, Anastasia Skatina, to provide financial support to Prigozhin’s structures. The MO source does not know which projects we are talking about.
The MO correspondent managed to get through to Skatina and ask whether she really received such an order following the meeting. But when she heard the question, she turned off the phone. Moscow Region also sent a request to Prigozhin’s press service.
The full composition of Rosneft’s management is unknown, and Skatin is not listed in the published part. Information on the composition of the Rosneft board began to hide since September last year due to Western sanctions imposed on the company. According to MO’s interlocutor, Skatina received her current post in December 2022. As MO found out, the car belonging to Anastasia Skatina I parked several times at the Rosneft office on Sofiyskaya embankment. Information about her has been removed from search engines, but a message about her former place of work has been preserved: she was the director of one of the departments of Olympstroy in 2014, during the completion of the Olympic construction.
Prigozhin has not publicly met with any prominent leaders in recent months, although he claimed that enters the officeswhen he asked for shells for the Wagner PMC. Z-channels claimed that Prigozhin had finally achieved his goal, and shells were allocated by order of Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev – a longtime associate of Igor Sechin (both worked in the FSB).
But so far there has been no evidence that Prigozhin’s activities are approved in high offices. Pro-Kremlin political scientist Sergei Markov in February statedWhat On federal TV in Russia it was forbidden to mention Prigozhin and his PMC. The Gray Zone telegram channel, close to “Putin’s chef,” published a Ministry of Defense manual for the media, which also states that mentioning “Wagnerites” is prohibited.
Shoigu outplayed Prigozhin in the hardware games, and the Ministry of Defense, instead of the Wagner PMC, is recruiting prisoners in the colonies, human rights activists argued. But now, perhaps, Prigozhin has received a high patron.
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