Why Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is still alive? Because Putin needs him for something else

Now that the rumor mill wants the Chechen firebrand Ramzan Kadyrov to have fallen prey to a poisoning attempt, the question arises why Yevgeny Prigozhin is still alive. The boss of the Wagner group has even more enemies than Kadyrov – and would normally have fallen out of some window long ago with all his name-calling and poor war performance. But he has a good life insurance policy, it turns out: something President Vladimir Putin would find hard to do without.

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