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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Private Military Companies As Licensed Tool of Terror
2015-11-27
[Inform Napalm] Inform Napalm international volunteer community presents an interesting review article written by Vyacheslav Gusarov, an information security expert of 'Information Resistance' group. We have created the infographics to visualize the data of the article.

The well-known military and political events started in Yugoslavia in the early '90s. And in the summer of 1992 the first Russian 'volunteers' went all by themselves into a new hot spot after the war in Transnistria. By someone's considerations, the local Slavs allegedly had to be defended.

Then the widely known Igor Strelkov-Girkin appeared among the group of 'patriots'.

Somehow, the Russian media (with tears in their eyes) presented this fact as the archetype of the 'Russian patriotism'.

However, you should wonder: how could it be possible in post-Soviet Russia to leave the country with combat equipment, and even take part in the hostilities?

The Russian writer Mikhail Polikarpov assures that several hundreds of 'Russian volunteers' continuously operated in Bosnia in 1992-1995, using the tactics of reconnaissance and sabotage groups. The fighters of 'Rubikon' security company from St. Petersburg formed the basis of that detachment.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  I think I take a more pragmatic view of Russia. It's kind of like a bear. Keep a gun trained on him to keep him from getting too aggressive. Then leave him alone, stay away from him and you're not likely to have too much trouble. Poking him with a stick is not smart. And if he sees countries like Serbia and Syria as cubs, it's best not to mess with them either.

As for Putin, I recognize that he is a ruthless dictator with murderous instincts. But somehow he doesn't scare me anywhere near as much as Baraq Obama.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2015-11-27 12:30  

#4  The people who run Information Napalm are soldiers in the Ukrainian Army, part of the Maidan movement, and have long been providing their view of Russians, whether their information can be proven or not.

Not saying they're right or they're wrong. They just don't like Russians much, like most of Rantburg's readership.
Posted by: badanov   2015-11-27 11:59  

#3  I would venture a guess that a poorly reported and poorly understood Moslem insurgency is at work in the Ukraine and that is why the Russians are on it.

To make an omelet or in this case Moslem expansion, you either bust a few heads or scramble a few eggs.

I am growing more and more p.o.ed about how we were so completely mislead about Chechnya by the media.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2015-11-27 11:47  

#2  Being ordered to be a volunteer has a long history in Russia...
Posted by: Steve White   2015-11-27 10:15  

#1  This is completely different from, say, Blackwater, et al.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-11-27 08:55  

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