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When Yevgeny Prigozhin rolled towards Moscow at the end of June with armored personnel carriers, low-loaders with heavy weapons and several thousand Wagner mercenaries, panic broke out not only in Vladimir Putin’s security apparatus. Even Russia’s super-rich, all of whom have been profiteers of the corrupt regime for many years, packed their bags as a precaution. The oligarch and Putin advisor Roman Abramovich took off with his Gulfstream G650ER towards Istanbul, as reported by Russian media. Other billionaires like Arkady Rotenberg and Vladimir Potanin followed in their expensive private jets.
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