Prigozhin and the virgins

The Russian elite's obsession with virginity is joined to a desire for conquest.

Back in 2021, journalists at RFE/RL published a shocking investigation into the secretive Sogaz health clinic in St. Petersburg, linked to the eldest of Putin’s daughters, Maria Vorontsova.

Sogaz is a place where, it was alleged, so-called “virginity tests” were performed on sex workers, some of them seemingly underage trafficking victims. Among the cli…