What happened… The Wagner Group arrived in Minsk on the night of July 24-25; each man carried a small piece of hand luggage and heavy suitcases. First, the group settled in a hotel in Minsk, but left on July 27 and moved to a sanatorium...
In the Russian city of Gukovo, located in the Rostov Oblast 5 km away from eastern Ukraine, healthcare workers on 28 May held a demonstration demanding they are paid the bonuses promised by President Putin for working with patients who...
“Today, Baba Masha has left her earthly place and entered heaven’s gate. Three days ago, I was with her, inspecting what our team had accomplished in terms of renovation to her home, which had suffered from numerous shelling … I...
“Ukraine has withdrawn its troops in Stanytsia Luhanska. Russia has not, and their military forces are still here. Russians are now walking around freely in the gray zone. Moreover, the war is escalating along the entire front line. If...
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...
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...
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...
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...
After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where members of that “private” armed grouping were trained. But the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel observes that “it...
There are many differences between the Russian seizure of Crimea and Russian actions in the Donbas, but perhaps the most important if sometimes ignored one is this, Pavlo Kazarin says. Crimea was carried out by the regular Russian army,...
“The poor are deprived of resources, consumption, social relations and connections. Creating and reproducing the relevant collective social ideas and behavioral practices, they are prone to paternalism, a convenient object of...
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