The PACE Committee recently approved a draft resolution proposing a change in the Council’s Charter so that its members, even if their credentials are contested or revised, cannot be deprived of their voting rights, as well as the right...
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...
Read more on PMC Wagner: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas Ukraine names over 150 mercenaries from “Putin’s private army” fighting in Ukraine and Syria PMC Wagner’s special task force...
The Damascus suburb of Ghouta has developed into a rebel stronghold preventing the regime, Iran, and Russia from taking full control of the “Damascus belt.” Ghouta is the last area remaining outside regime control within Damascus and...
A statue identical to the one to Russian mercenaries in Syria which surfaced in January has now popped up in Luhansk, the capital of the unrecognized “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LNR”) in the east-Ukrainian...
Rabbi Abraham Shmulevich, president of the Institute of Eastern Partnership (Israel) evaluates the accuracy of this report and traces the links between Moscow and ISIL. He is certain that Russia makes use of ISIL. “It’s...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
The indirect costs of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea as well as his military muscle-flexing elsewhere which include the isolation of Russia internationally and greater repression and human suffering...
During the hearing, the judge gave defendant Vitaliy Markiv the opportunity to make a final statement. The soldier said that he would not go into more detail because his lawyers had explained everything in previous court hearings. “I am...
