Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said he had taken control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don as part of an attempt to oust the military leadership, in what the authorities said was an armed mutiny. | Reuters
* After serving a long prison sentence in the 1980s, Prigozhin started out selling hotdogs in his hometown. He soon began to build up a stake in a chain of supermarkets, and eventually opened his own restaurant and catering company.
* From there, Prigozhin’s catering firm Concord began to win government supply contracts, taking its operations to a much bigger level. * The group also provided support to Russia-backed separatists who seized a chunk of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in 2014.
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