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Prigozhin's group to lay down their arms. >> translator: all those who deliberately chose the path of treachery, who prepared an armed mute nye, blackmail and terrorist methods will face inevitable punishment and will answer to the law and to our people. >> reporter: he may now be something of a nemesis to vladimir putin but the decades long relationship with the russian president that allowed prigozhin to establish his own militia, the wagner group. wagner served as a private army doing controversial jobs that often not even russia's military could do. prigozhin, a former prisoner himself, an...