After being criticized by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner PMC, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev, who accused him and the heads of several other regions of “uniform lawlessness” in supporting the special operation, Recommended Not to interfere in regional affairs.
“This time [Пригожин] He said we had “chaos” for some reason. “Lawlessness”, Eugene, is what you stick your nose into in regional government and personnel policy. If every businessman who earns money from school meals tries to run the country, we will not get very far. Everyone mind their own business. You cook cutlets and cook pasta, and we will figure it out ourselves in the regions, ”Kuyvashev said in an interview with 66.ru.
On February 22, Prigozhin was born in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, St. Petersburg and the Sverdlovsk Region, he accused the governors of “blatant nonsense.” He described the situation among some of his Russian subjects as “official lawlessness”.
In response to Kuyvashev’s words, Prigogine noted his rudeness and recalled how the problem of regional bureaucracy was resolved in 1941-1945.
Since we have moved from YOU to YOU, then I can answer YOU: The country is in trouble because there are regional bureaucrats like YOU. During the now repeated war of 1941-1945, Stalin simply shot people like YOU and Beglov (Governor of St. Petersburg. – about “socialbites.ca”). I think we’ll be back to normal soon. I am sure the time is not far off when people will reach boiling point and raise YOU and others like YOU at their pitchfork”
said Prigogine.
He also noted that Kuyvashev’s activities were accompanied by “constant liberal and LGBT scandals.” He also remembered that Kuyvashev was studying at Yale University in the United States. “It seems YOU were taught about life not by the Russian people, but by Yale University, where you understand the hatred towards these people. I advise you to either come forward and prove that you are completely nothing, or stick your tongue where you can control it, ”said Prigozhin.
The media wrote about Kuyvashev’s work at Yale in the 2010s. The governor himself did not confirm the fact of education: “I did not study at Yale – I only listened to lectures there. I didn’t study, I don’t have a diploma”.
Touching on the cutlet and pasta issue, Prigozhin noted that he stopped doing business after the special operations started and that he “devoted his life entirely to the leadership of the army, which is the country’s most war-ready military unit. Wagner PMC.
The roots of the conflict
The businessman’s quarrel with the Sverdlovsk authorities began at the end of 2022. On December 19, Prigozhin called for the dismissal of the newly appointed director of the Yekaterinburg Historical Museum, Igor Pushkarev, who was formerly a journalist at Znak.com. According to him, the Wagner security service checked information on Pushkarev and learned that he had received information from Western intelligence agencies, including the US CIA.
According to the operational data of the Wagner PMC security service, Pushkarev received information from agents of influence, as well as proxy agents of American and British intelligence. The information was deliberately discarded by Western intelligence services, resulting in casualties and disruption of special operations among PMC personnel. I ask you to check the validity of the appointment and release of Pushkarev. [его] From the post of director of the Yekaterinburg Historical Museum, ”said Prigozhin.
Pushkarev’s appointment as museum director was announced on 14 December. In connection with this, it is reported that Prigozhin tried to call Yekaterinburg Mayor Alexei Orlov and Governor Kuyvashev to discuss the situation, but could not.
However, later the conversation nevertheless took place, and, according to Prigozhin, Orlov promised him that he would check the information about Pushkarev.
On December 21, 2022, Pushkarev was summoned to the police, where an administrative protocol was drawn up against him as part of an article about discrediting the Russian army. On January 25, 2023, Pushkarev was fined 30,000 rubles for discrediting the RF Armed Forces. The reason was a Facebook post (the owner, Meta, was considered extremist and banned in Russia). Pushkarev pleaded not guilty.
Now, according to the website of the Yekaterinburg Historical Museum, the director is Sergei Kamensky. However, at the end of October 2022, he resigned of his own free will. Pushkarev’s dismissal was not reported.
dishonorable funeral
On January 21, it became known that the late Wagner warrior Ivan Savkin, who joined the PMC from the colony, was denied burial with honor without a gun salute and military guard. The mother of the deceased reported the situation.
“We planned to hold a farewell in the same place (in the Kamyshlov region. – approx. socialbites.ca). But the management categorically refused to help us. When asked to secure a place in the club, they told the e1.ru portal: “I would be free, but he is an ex-convict.”
Later, the head of the Eastern rural settlement, Nikolai Zhursky, told the publication that his relatives did not personally contact him with such a request, and he contacted his deputy, who, according to him, confirmed the funeral. “No dates were discussed and then they disappeared. I called his grandmother and brought his condolences,” he said.
Prigogine drew attention to the situation.
Unfortunately, I was not aware that the mayor of the Kamyshlov district of the Sverdlovsk region decided to show its animality in this way. We will take care of the scum and try to pull their children through their nostrils to join the NWO,” he said.
Prigozhin also referred to a report stating that the deceased’s commander, Ivan Savkin, participated in the attack on the premises of Bakhmut (Artemovsk), where the fighter single-handedly neutralized the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In further attacks on the building complex during artillery shelling, he received injuries incompatible with life.