The popularity of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin —Vladimir Putin's ally—exceeded the Russian leader last month, searches showed.
Last month, as a public feud between Prigozhin and Russia's ministry of defense intensified, Russians searched for information about the man nicknamed"Putin's chef" far more than the leader of the country, independent Russian news outlet Verstka found.
Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2010. He's been more popular than Putin in recent online searches.Prigozhin directly addressed Putin in his appeal for more munitions Data from Yandex Wordstat showed that Russians searched for"Putin's chef" 744,000 times in May , while searches for"Vladimir Putin" totaled 305,000—2.4 times less than for the search"Yevgeny Prigozhin," the news outlet found.
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