Tag: wagner group

• Blackwater paved the way for Wagner

  August 13, 2023

  In the aftermath of the mutiny by the Wagner private military company (PMC) in Russia, many observers expected that its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin would pay dearly for his actions, perhaps… more ›

• ‘A chance to fight for my freedom’: how Russia recruits inmates for Ukraine war

  September 22, 2022

  The inmates of penal colony No 8, in the Tambov region 300 miles south of Moscow, rushed to their cell windows when they heard the sound of a helicopter approaching… more ›

• Decoding the Wagner Group: Analyzing the Role of Private Military Security Contractors in Russian Proxy Warfare

  August 13, 2022

  Russian private military security contractors (PMSCs) are pivotal players in ongoing proxy wars in the Greater Middle East and its periphery. Their covert operations—real and imagined—are also critical in shaping… more ›

• Putin Chef’s Kisses of Death: Russia’s Shadow Army’s State-Run Structure Exposed

  August 13, 2022

  Yevgeny Prigozhin can be described as the Renaissance man of deniable Russian black ops. An ex convict who served time for robbery, fraud and involving a minor in drinking and criminal activity, he began… more ›

• Shrouded in secrecy for years, Russia’s Wagner Group opens up

  August 13, 2022

  “We deal with the fragmentation of military power that is typical for authoritarian regimes,” explained Luzin. “Wagner are neither elite forces nor well-trained commandos, they are just another sort of… more ›

• Mali- Russia: Bamako to sign contract with Wagner Group

  August 11, 2022

  Since the beginning of September, the Malian state – represented by Assimi Goïta (the president of the transition government) and Sadio Camara (his defence minister) – and a private military… more ›

• Russia: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin’s Africa machine

  August 11, 2022

  Everyone was sworn to secrecy and told that the meeting in Khartoum would never take place. For months, however, secret negotiations took place to plan it. Emissaries flew by helicopter… more ›

• How a Sanctioned Russian Company Gained Access to Sudan’s Gold

  April 30, 2022

  Commercial Registry documents seen by Bloomberg provide the first evidence that the compound is owned by Meroe Gold, a company the U.S. Treasury says has ties to the Wagner Group, which it describes… more ›

• Joint report by the CAPS/IRSEM – Information Manipulation: A Challenge for Our Democracies (4 September 2018)

  January 2, 2021

  Information manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but it has taken on an entirely new dimension because of the unprecedented capacity of the internet and social networks to diffuse information… more ›

• French and Russian Influence Operations Go Head to Head Targeting Audiences in Africa

  December 22, 2020

  On December 15, Facebook announced that it had taken down three separate networks that it had discovered for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that targeted communities across Africa. One, centered on the Central African… more ›