“People are still going and leaving flowers. It’s not really for Prigozhin the man, it’s rather for this sense of someone who was willing to stand up to against the Kremlin.”

A year after his death, Yevgeny Prigozhin become a “hero figure” because of his opposition to Putin, says Mark Galeotti, professor at UCL and author of Downfall: Prigozhin and the Fight for the Future of Russia.


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