Petersburg business center takes down Wagner Center sign

The sign for PMC Wagner Center W, a Wagner Group recruitment center in St. Petersburg, has been removed from the facade of the business center that housed it, reports local publication Fontanka.

A witness told another local publication, Rotonda, that Wagner signs had also been taken off the building’s main entrance, and stickers were removed from windows and doors inside.

The business center, which is called Morskaya Stolitsa, opened in November 2022. The prominent Wagner signage has caused some confusion about the name of the center. The management company that runs the building said the PMC Wagner Center was one of the business center’s tenants, but that they hung signs on the facade and the main entrance because “they occupy a fairly large area.”

The Wagner Center’s press service told Rotonda that the center “was continuing to work.” One June 30, Russian authorities returned equipment that had been seized from the center during Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion. Later, a post on the center’s Telegram channel stated that the sign had been removed because the center was moving. “PMC Wagner Center will continue to work for the good of our country, but in a new format and in other locations,” the post read.