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  2018/11/22 - 17:39 • International, More

  Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story

  Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to launch an investigation into the organizers of the Russian PMCs and to seek...

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  2018/10/13 - 14:12 • International

  Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’

  Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence of its use by the Kremlin in its wars in Ukraine and Syria and the company’s increasing use of criminals rather...

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  2018/08/10 - 13:36 • International, More

  Russia’s private military companies a more toxic form of Latin American death...

  Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not as well, especially in a world where many military tasks are outsourced and where there are some tasks states do not...

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  2018/07/08 - 11:30 • International, More

  Moscow dispatches even more ‘private military companies’ to Syria and Africa

  Moscow has now dispatched another of what it calls “a private military company” to fight in Syria, a reflection of its desire to avoid having regular army units there, its unwillingness to rely on the Wagner group alone, and its...

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  2018/04/21 - 13:20 • International, More

  Moscow inserts political operatives into African countries where elections are scheduled

  Even as the United States and other Western countries wrestle with the question of how involved Russian operatives were in recent elections and referendums in their countries, Moscow appears to be upping the ante by sending more such...

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