The PMC Legion: Russia’s Other Private Armies

PMCs are illegal in Russia. Well, with the notable exceptions of all the PMCs.

I swear, I find a new channel that this guy runs every other day. Edit: Dad, I'm famous!

1:40 - Chapter 1 - PMCS ; what & why 9:25 - Chapter 2 - Redut 13:35 - Chapter 3 - Patriot 16:30 - Chapter 4 - Rusich group 20:35 - Chapter 5 - Russian imperial movement 23:45 - Chapter 6 - PMC Gazprom ; Fakel & potok 28:05 - Chapter 7 - The trouble with PMC's

Hi Simon, how about a look at western PMC's, it would be interesting to compare them to those in this episode, are they similar in where and what operations they are engaged to carry out? do they conduct their operations in a similar manner? you mentioned a couple of massive western oil companies that have PMC's, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on those. Cheers Simon keep up the good work.

Only in Russia, you can legally cut your prison sentence by officially joining an illegal organization.

My favourite PMC......Simon's Private Media Contractor status......

I would be totally fine if you don't show that tiny TV with the horrible audio quality ever again. I'll still watch almost all of your content. I'm just saying I would be good with that sort of decision.

Crazy part about Wagnar is that they approached an American Special Operations veteran to run its precursor in I believe 2011? Idea was to help them secure mine security contracts in Africa. (At this time, US and RU troops had been join training and working together for counter-terrorism. So it's not as bad as it sounds)

PMCs seem to be doing all the heavy lifting, we need more episodes about PMCs from other countries especially USA, China and France.

Rusich is more like volunteer battalion, it's not PMC. Also "Rusich" "CH" is spelled like "Che" not like "Kh"

Not gonna lie I am not a fan of the poor TV audio sections, why detract from the quality video with random jarring changes?

Hi there. Russian (and Japanese) speaking commenter here. Really like your videos, but heard a few times how things are just not pronounced correctly in non-English languages. It's not a big deal and you are making so many quality videos, that some things may slip. But it'd be great to add a transcription of foreign words to the script so that Simon could read them properly and viewers could hear how they actually sound. That includes names of the cities and regions of Ukraine, names of people (Japanese, Ukrainian, Russian, etc), and organizations. For example Rusich (it's pronounced Roo-seech (or -sietch if you're a fan of Dune) and not "Rasic" or "Rasih" as you would read this in German or some other language (as it's in the video). Rusich basically means "Rus person". Other than that - great content, cheers!

Very insightful, I really wanted to know more about the non-Wagner PMCs. The only one I noticed missing is the mysterious Convoy PMC, operating somewhere south of Ukraine and Crimea. Awesome video 🙌👏👏👏

PMC Wagner is (or was) the most powerful PMC. They have similar equipments to the Russian army, but not on a large scale. They also have a bunch of members and experience in many regions. Though they seem a lot quieter these days after a few of their leaders were caught in a plane “accident”.

I can only imagine the depravity your writers had to wade through while researching this video, props to them.

Russian Neo-Nazis always crack me up. They live in an alternate universe where the Nazis didn't invade the Soviet Union and slaughter millions of people or the Nazis didn't see the Slavs as inferior and wanted to subjugate them and use them as slave labor.

Great video, how the team puts these out it nothing but AMZN, keep up the great work Simon and team.

When real life is just the plot of Metal Gear Solid 4.

Man, all this talk about PMC is giving me Metal Gear Solid vibes. It kinda makes me wish Prigozion was more like Big Boss.

West: has pmc East creates pmc West: “hey that’s crime!”