War, Business and ‘Hybrid’ Warfare: The Case of the Wagner Private Military Company (Part One)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 15 Issue: 60
By: Sergey Sukhankin
April 19, 2018 06:02 PM Age: 2 weeks
(Source: rufabula.com)
On March 27, the Russian government watered down the Duma bill proposing to legalize Private Military Companies (Chastnye Voennie Company—PMC) (Interfax, March 27). The parliamentary initiative was unanimously rejected by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia), the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and the Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation (FSO). Incidentally, previously such key figures as Sergei Lavrov (the head of the MFA), Dmitry Rogozin (Russian deputy prime minister on defense and space industry) and prominent siloviki (such as Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov) had given support to the PMC bill (Kommersant, January 15). Moreover, on April 12, 2012, then–prime minister Vladimir Putin called these structures “an instrument for the realization of national interests abroad without the direct participation of the state†(Vz.ru, April 11, 2012). Yet, the real situation is far more complicated than appears on the surface.
https://jamestown.org/program/war-business-and-hybrid-warfare-the-case-of-the-wagner-private-military-company-part-one/
