Russian state media takes aim at Prigozhin
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring
They also recalled his criminal past and suggested that he was driven by greed, but failed to mention Prigozhin's persistent and often crude criticism of Russia's military and of how it pursues the war in Ukraine. "Let's have a look how this fighter for the truth lived, someone who has two criminal convictions and who kept claiming that everyone else was a thief," said a commentator on 60 Minutes, a talk show.
Later, similar footage was shown as part of the channel's main evening news bulletin, one of the most popular in Russia. It also featured ingots of gold and "suspicious packets of white powder", which Rossiya 1 suggested could be an illegal drug.his first criminal conviction in 1979, aged just 18, On the same evening, state TV's Channel One suggested that Yevgeny Prigozhin was linked to Western intelligence, which was now "too shy" to admit involvement in his apparent mutiny.
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