2024-10-18
9 分钟NPR.
A little over a year ago, something mysterious happened in the skies over Russia.
Caught on camera unverified footage of the plane tumbling from the sky with a missing wing, then bursting into flames north of Moscow and believed to be on board that plane, a man named Yevgeny Prgozhin, the head of a company, a private military contractor hired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ten bodies have been recovered.
President Putin didnt confirm Pragorzhians death, but.
Spoke of him in the past tense.
I knew Pragoshin for a very long time.
He was a man with a complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in life.
This ominous sequence of events may have been the end of pergosian, but it wasnt the end for the private army he built, the Wagner group this is the indicator for planet money.
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