Due to the dissolution of the Patriot media holding, Yevgeny Prigozhin instructed his subordinates to delete information created on the company's resources: social networks, websites, telegram channels and chats. The Bell writes about this with reference to the employees of the holding.
According to the publication, today the managing employees of the Patriot personally spoke with Prigozhin — he told them about the termination of the media holding and the need to «put everything under the knife ”: destroy social networks, websites and other materials and resources at the disposal of the Patriot.
“Don’t get you to anyone,” one of the employees of the holding quoted the words of the authorities with whom Prigozhin spoke in a conversation with The Bell. According to the publication, when asked by one of the subordinates about how the meeting went, one of the editors of the Patriot replied: “Everything is as usual, he sucked all the cocks, he said that I don’t fucking need you.”
Earlier, Rotunda and Meduza wrote about the dissolution of the media holding, citing their sources, as well as telegram channels Mash and VChK-OGPU. Patriot owns the publications Narodnye Novosti and Ekonomika Segodnya, as well as RIA FAN and the Troll Factory. Judging by the registry of Roskomsvoboda, the websites of resources belonging to Prigozhin have been blocked since June 24, the day he announced a military mutiny.
RIA FAN CEO Evgeny Zubarev also confirmed the information about the closing of the holding — in a farewell video, he told the story development of Prigogine's structures. In particular, he said that the «troll factory» was created in 2009 and that the media holding itself was actively used to fight the opposition.
“In 2011, the history of work for the state continued. Then it was important to strategically question the work of opposition journalists who were rocking the situation in the country, trying to destroy our country,” Zubarev said.
A day earlier, The Bell reported that the «Patriot» could be transferred to a friend of the president, Yuri Kovalchuk, who owns the «National Media Group». The publication wrote that the holding's employees assumed that Patriot would control Kovalchuk's structures either directly or through intermediaries.