Prigozhin called PMC Wagner Center a platform for generating ideas on the defense capability of the Russian Federation

The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, commented on reports about the creation of PMC Wagner Center in St. Petersburg. He did not confirm or deny the information, but announced the goals of the site. According to him, the mission will be “providing a comfortable environment for the generation of new ideas in order to increase the defense capability of Russia, including information.”

“PMC Wagner Center is a complex of buildings that hosts places for free accommodation of inventors, designers, IT specialists, experimental production and start-up spaces,” Mr. Prigozhin said in a comment distributed by his Concord company. “In contact with”. According to him, if the project is successful, the need to open branches will be considered.

Initially, the opening of the “business space “PMC Wagner Center” in St. Petersburg,” the Telegram channel reported “Beware the News” (project of Ksenia Sobchak). The building is located near the Novocherkasskaya metro station. Until the beginning of October, it was offered to rent office space in the building through the website of the Sea Capital business center.

Yevgeny Prigozhin was previously included in the sanctions lists of the United States and the European Union. The West explained this by the fact that the businessman controls the Internet Research Agency (the “troll factory”) and the Wagner PMC. Mr. Prigozhin repeatedly denied this, but in the fall of 2022 confessed in the creation of “PMC Wagner”.

Leonid Uvarchev