ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash two months after he and his private mercenary group Wagner staged a short-lived mutiny, was laid to rest on Tuesday in a secret ceremony in his native St. Petersburg.

He was believed to have been buried at the Porokhovskoye cemetery amid heightened security after his firm said a private ceremony had been held for the warlord "in a closed setting."

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