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title: "Prigozhin Death Confirmed? Prigozhin Alive?"
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**I was half expecting this man to turn up alive. As he’d done before. However, Russia has confirmed his death. The latest news suggests Putin will not be attending the funeral.**

[**We’ll use the LATimes for the latest**](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-29/putin-not-planning-attend-wagner-chief-prigozhin-burial)

> Vladimir Putin is not planning to attend the funeral of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, following reports that the mercenary chief who [challenged the Russian president’s authority](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-07-10/kremlin-says-putin-met-with-russian-mercenary-leader-prigozhin) would be buried Tuesday.

> **Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn’t say where or when the chief of the [Wagner military company](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-10-05/in-the-ukraine-war-a-shadowy-key-player-emerges-russias-private-army) would be buried, adding that he couldn’t comment on a private family ceremony.**

> St. Petersburg’s Fontanka news outlet and some other media **said Prigozhin, 62, could be laid to rest at the city’s Serafimovskoye cemetery,** which has been used for high-profile military burials. On Tuesday, heavy police cordons encircled the cemetery, where Putin’s parents are also buried, **but no service was immediately held. Increased police presence was also reported at some other city cemeteries.**

**So, clearly there is an attempt to keep this ceremony private.**

> **A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane to go down**, and Western officials have pointed to a long list of Putin’s foes who have been assassinated. The Kremlin rejected Western allegations that the [Russian president was behind the crash](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-25/kremlin-denies-role-plane-crash-killed-wagner-prigozhin) as an “absolute lie.”

**How the intelligence conclusion is being made is unknown. It’s a conclusion that supports the narrative provided from the get go, so, take it with a grain of salt. Not to say it’s not correct, it may just be correct, just to say it’s the conclusion that would or should have been expected.**

[Still someone claims Prigozhin is alive](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12456817/Prigozhin-alive-plotting-revenge-Putin.html)

> **A Russian political analyst has claimed warlord [Yevgeny Prigozhin](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/yevgeny-prigozhin/index.html) is alive after his body double was killed in last week’s plane crash** – not the Wagner chief himself.
> 
> **Prigozhin is ‘alive, well, and free’ in an unnamed country, according to Dr Valery Solovey,** [even as Russia stages his funeral ](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12455967/Putin-orders-secret-service-prepare-new-military-insurgency-fearing-target-attack-following-Yevgeny-Prigozhins-assassination.html)which Vladimir [Putin](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/vladimir_putin/index.html) is refusing to attend.
> 
> **Prigozhin is now plotting his revenge,** says the political analyst, a former professor at Moscow’s prestigious Institute of International Relations \[MGIMO\], a training school for spies and diplomats.
> 
> ***Dr Solovey accuses the Russian authorities of lying over Prigozhin’s DNA being found at the crash site in Tver region***, while being aware the bid to kill the Wagner supremo had failed because a body double – which the warlord was known to use – got on the plane in his place.