The wealthy Russian businessman nicknamed "Putin's chef" - Yevgeny Prigozhin - has his fingers in lots of pies. He made his fortune running catering businesses in the 1990s - hence the nickname.

Ever since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as "a dead man walking". Commenting recently on the mercenary boss's life expectancy ...

Prigozhin — once nicknamed "Putin's Chef" after the Russian President began eating at his restaurants and giving his catering business government contracts — appears to be the latest thorn in ...

MOSCOW--Russia's most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said, two months to ...