Lord Hannan on the small gangsters of Leningrad

 

Lord Daniel Hannan wrote the first sensible piece on the Wagner rebellion going on in these hours in Russia. In Yahoo News, my fav internet paper. Interestingly, he calls Prigozhin a small gangster from Leningrad - Leningrad and not Petersburg! - but not a member of Putin's Leningrad secret police circle.  His father was Jewish, now I see he looks like my Uncle Ivor. The  Wagner mercenary army and the legitimate Russian Armed Forces are apparently fighting. Wagner appears to be advancing toward the capital.