Media: Prigozhin dismissed the media holding "Patriot"

The founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin dismissed his media holding Patriot, as well as the Troll Factory associated with him. This was reported with reference to sources by Mash and Rotonda . The media, which were part of the media group, are blocked by Roskonduzor.

The closure of the media holding is also written with reference to the sources of Telegram channels "VChK OGPU" and "Rybar" .

"Today, publications were announced that they are unemployed. As for the payments of salaries to employees, this is also an incomprehensible question," the Rybar said in a statement. The telegram channel also notes that Concord, associated with Prigirus and engaged in catering, is also “the end” also comes.

The editors of the "Neva News", which were part of the media group, published a message in which she stated that she stops her work and said goodbye to readers. The message did not indicate the reason for the closure. The same was done by the publication "Economics Today." The publication "Politics Today" announced that it is "radically reformatted" and, possibly, will continue to work in the format of the author's blog. The editor -in -chief of RIA Fan Christina Masenkova confirmed RIA Novosti Closing the publication.

According to The Bell, citing the holding employees, due to the dissolution of the Patriot media holding, Evgeny Prigozhin instructed his subordinates to delete the information created on the company's resources: social networks, sites, telegram channels and chats.

Evgeny Prigozhin or his representatives have not yet commented on this information.

Simultaneously with the publications on the dissolution of Mediakrokoling Prigozhin, Kommersant released the news that Roskomnadzor blocked the RIA Fan publication, “Politics Today”, “Nevsky News” and “People’s News” associated with the founder of PMCs. The reasons for restricting access to resources are not indicated. Outside of Russia, all these resources are opened.

As noted by Roskomsvoboda, the date of making entries in the register is June 24, 2023. “We do not exclude that they could appear there retroactively there,” they add in the project.

The agency’s publication previously noticed that from June 29, seven publications of the Patriot media group ceased to be updated, and others reduced the number of publications. The Bell wrote that Prigozhin’s media acts can be controlled by the “National Media Group” of businessman Yuri Kovalchuk, friend Vladimir Putin.

The Patriot group was created in 2019, it declared its goal to "disseminate positive information in Russia." According to media reports , the publications included in the holding grew on the basis of the "troll factory".

• On the night of June 24, Wagner's mercenaries actually passed without resistance from their bases in the east of Ukraine to the Rostov region, where they seized one of the largest cities in Russia-Rostov-on-Don and one of the headquarters of the Russian army. Later they managed to block the Russian military in another city with a millionth population, Voronezh. The first lines of real defense federal troops, as reported on June 24, were prepared on the banks of the Oka already in the Moscow region, a thousand kilometers from Rostov.
• During the rebellion, PMC fighters shot down several helicopters and an aircraft of the Russian army. Several pilots died. The exact number of the dead has not yet been officially reported.
• The rebellion was stopped after negotiations with the head of PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. He was guaranteed to leave for Belarus.