{"id":6305,"date":"2015-11-24T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:30:18","slug":"russian-private-military-companies-as-licensed-tool-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-private-military-companies-as-licensed-tool-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Private Military Companies As Licensed Tool of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"

InformNapalm<\/a>\u00a0international volunteer community presents an interesting review article written by\u00a0Vyacheslav Gusarov, an information security expert of ‘Information Resistance<\/a>‘ group. We\u00a0have created the infographics to visualize\u00a0the data of the article.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The well-known military and political events started\u00a0in Yugoslavia in the early ’90s. And in the summer of 1992 the first Russian ‘volunteers’\u00a0went all by themselves\u00a0into a new hot spot after the war in Transnistria. By someone’s considerations, the local Slavs allegedly had to be defended.<\/p>\n

Then the widely known Igor Strelkov-Girkin appeared among the group of ‘patriots’.<\/p>\n

Somehow, the Russian media (with tears in their\u00a0eyes)\u00a0presented this fact as the archetype\u00a0of the ‘Russian patriotism’.<\/p>\n

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However, you\u00a0should wonder: how could it be possible in\u00a0post-Soviet Russia to leave the country with combat equipment, and even take part in the hostilities?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Russian writer Mikhail Polikarpov assures<\/a>\u00a0that several hundreds of ‘Russian volunteers’\u00a0continuously operated\u00a0in Bosnia in 1992-1995, using the\u00a0tactics of reconnaissance and sabotage groups. The fighters of ‘Rubikon’ security company from\u00a0St. Petersburg formed the basis of that detachment.<\/p>\n

Then it would be logical to ask: did\u00a0they all infiltrate\u00a0into Yugoslavia under the guise of Russian tourists?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0It is clear in this case that it was not done without the participation of KGB-FSB. Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state\u00a0security authorities\u00a0established a special unofficial\u00a0unit of the militant professionals, which was\u00a0used in hot spots of the former Soviet Union and abroad.<\/p>\n

Under the guise of protection of Russia’s interests, the special unit’s\u00a0soldiers used to be\u00a0transferred to\u00a0areas of conflict – Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Crimea, Georgia.<\/p>\n

The state terrorists has left their bloody footprints in many places.<\/p>\n

Over time, a need arose\u00a0to create a legal basis which would legalize the activities of illegal armed groups in the state interests of Russia.<\/p>\n

Legal and regulatory illusion<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The global informatization is a headache for the Russian special operations – more and more often undesired materials appear in open sources. There was a need for\u00a0legal platform\u00a0as in other civilized countries.<\/p>\n

However, the old Russian tradition to create\u00a0dual-use laws became a habit\u00a0of the Russian officials. This feature was once expressed in\u00a0folk\u00a0proverbial wisdom: “one law for the rich, and another for the poor”.<\/p>\n

One of the first attempts was the amendment to the ‘Weapons act’ (2008), which allowed the abroad security structures of ‘Transneft’, ‘Lukoil’ and ‘Gazprom’ use weapons for ensuring objects’ security. Under the cover of this amendment, the first abroad armed formations were created.<\/p>\n

But it\u00a0appeared to be\u00a0insufficient, so, starting from 2011, the Russian media began to actively discuss the establishment of a Russian military instrument of government influence.\u00a0Then a huge amount of articles\u00a0about the need to form “voluntary detachments of reservists in the FSB, the Foreign Intelligence Service, as well as in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” appeared in different media.\u00a0The information campaign was organized according to\u00a0the classical scenario:<\/p>\n